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Happy birthday today to Julia
Euzelia Roberts, 86.
"I've come this far by faith and 1
will continue to lean on the Lord."
said Roberts, whose singing and
playing in the Mountaineer band
delights many of her fellow senior
adults at the Kings Mountain
Senior Center.
"lI don't know what my family
has planned for me on Thursday,"
said Julia, with a twinkle in her
eye. "I know it will be great, what-
ever itis."
A popular midwife in the 1940's,
she never lost a baby or mother and
still has the scales she weighed-in
167 newborns for 20 years in
Cleveland County and 14 years in
Gaston County.
Birthing 167 babies was pure joy
for Roberts, who had six months of
training at the Cleveland County
Health Department and then took
nursing correspondence courses
and in later years worked in nurs-
ing homes for the elderly.
Her first delivery should have
made her nervous, but not Julia. It
was a proud moment for her when
she saw James McClain, now the
assistant minister of Ebenezer
Baptist Church, come into the
world.
"I always said a little prayer,"
said Julia.
Roberts said she was 27 years
old when she went with an aunt on
a delivery. Her father objected,
saying that Roberts wouldn't marry
and have children of her own but
Roberts married twice and raised
11 children, eight of whom are liv-
ing. She also has 23 grandchildren,
Roberts celebrates birthday
23 great-grandchildren and seven
great-great grandchildren.
Roberts gave up her practice but
she takes out the birth records ev-
ery now and then and remembers
those days.
Roberts retired at age 74 after
private duty nursing for 15 years.
In apparent good health, she drives
her own car and does her own
cooking and housework. She is ac-
tive in Washington Missionary
Church, where she often sings a so-
lo for worship services.
"Oh, they tell me of a home far
beyond the sky, Oh, they tell me of
a home faraway," are the words of
the familiar hymn Julia sang
Sunday.
"God didn't bring me here to
leave me, He bought me and Thank
God He brought me," is her philos-
ophy.
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JULIA ROBERTS
Church Briefs |
Dixon 50th anniversary Sunday
Dixon Presbyterian Church will
begin a four-month celebration of
its 50th anniversary Sunday, Feb.
6.
Rev. Bob Wilson of Lynchburg,
Va. will be the speaker at the 11
a.m. worship service. A covered
dish lunch will be held following
the service in the church fellowship
hall. :
Rev. Wilson was Dixon's pastor
from 1969-75.
The church was organized on
February 6, 1944 in the Dixon
School.
As a part of Sunday's service,
the church history will be recalled
and the names of deceased mem-
bers will be read.
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STEVE FLANIGAN
Flanigan in concert
at Foursquare Church
Singing = evangelist Steve
Flanigan of Nashville, TN, a semi-
finalist in the 1992 male vocalist
Star Search, will be in concert
Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday
at 11 a.m. at Foursquare Gospel
Church in Kings Mountain.
The Saturday night program is a
division youth rally for all
Foursquare churches in the area
and is a part of Rev. Oscar
Stalcup/s new responsibilities as
idivistonsoverseer. forr Foursquare
churches in this area.
Any churches in the area are in-
vited to send youth to the concert.
Admission is free but a love of-
fering will be taken to help with
expenses.
Flanigan will sing during regular
morning worship services on
Sunday.
Hot dog sale set
at Love Valley
There will be a benefit hot dog
dinner/supper Friday, Feb. 4 from
11 am. to 7 p.m. at Love Valley
Baptist Church, Bethlehem Road,
Kings Mountain.
Hot dog plates, which include
two hot dogs, chips and cake, will
be sold for $3.50 each. Orders of
10 or more will be delivered.
All proceeds will go to the fami-
ly of terminal cancer patient Lillian
Collins, who died Tuesday after a
lengthy illness.
For more information, call 739-
6697.
Black History set
at Shelby church
Washington Missionary Baptist
Church at 1920 Stoney Point Road
in Shelby will observe Black
History Month February 6-13 be-
ginning with a concert on Sunday,
February 6, at 4 p.m. at the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
A variety of black history lec-
tures, skits, plays and art displays
will be open to the public at the
church each evening February 7-
12 beginning at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m.
each evening there will be inspira-
tional services with gospel singing,
praise and worship led by guest
evangelist, Rev. Robert Kemp, pas-
tor of Community AME Zion
Church in Vancouver, Washington.
A special candlelight service
will feature the Wednesday night
service at 6 p.m. when great Afro
‘Fences’ set at Cleveland College
The Greater Shelby Community
Theatre, in conjunction with the
Cleveland Community College
Student Government Association,
will present the Pulitzer Prize win-
ning production, Fences, Feb. 4-7
at the CCC auditorium.
Fences encompasses the 1950s
and an African-America family
trying to put down roots in a mid-
dle American urban industrial city.
Author August Wilson tells the
story of four generations of
African-Americans and how they
passed on a legacy of morals,
mores, attitudes and patterns
through stories with and without
music. Rahn Scott portrays Troy
Maxson, a man whose environ-
Obituaries
mental conditions have taught him
violence and fruition,a s well as the
value of work and responsibility
for the family at all costs.
Joining Scott are Eric Simpson
as Jim Bono, Cara Elmore as Rose,
Anthony Davis as Cory, George
Padgett as Lyons, Howard Davis as
Gabriel and April Hill as Raynell.
Fences is directed by Linda
Strachan who is being assisted by
Steve Langston.
Performances are February 4, 5
and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 6 at
2:30 p.m. General admission is $6.
Senior citizens and students will be
charged $5.
For more information, call Dr.
Dottie mcIntyre at 484-4025.
- ROBERTA R. CALDWELL
Hickory - Roberta Reel
Caldwell, 76, Brian Center, died
Jan. 30, 1994.
She was a native of Lincoln
County, daughter of the late Carl
and Lucy Dellinger Reel and wife
of the late Fred Alexander
Caldwell. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include a son, James
Caldwell Sr. of Summerville, S.C.;
three brothers, P.J. Reel of
Salisbury, Alvin Reel of Bessemer
City and William Reel of Kings
Mountain; four sisters, Josephine
Barnes of Iron Station, Carolyn
Parker of Lincolnton, Mary Elkins
of Stanley and Glenda Ellis of
Rock Hill, S.C.; her stepmother,
Ocie Long Reel of Lincolnton; two
grandchildren and a great-grand-
child.
The funeral was conducted by
the Revs. Grady and Randy Parker
on Tuesday at Warlick Funeral
Home. Burial was in Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the
Medical University of South
Carolina, Arthritis Research Fund,
Rheumatology Division, 171
Ashley Ave., Charleston, S.C.
29425.
ANNIE M. HANNA
Gastonia - Annie Bell Moses
Hanna, 68, 415 N. Firestone St.,
died Jan. 31, 1994 at Gaston
Memorial Hospital.
She was a native of Grover, S.C.
and daughter of the late Robert
Moses. She was a homemaker and
a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church.
Survivors include a son, Mark E.
Hanna of Greer, S.C.; a daughter,
Sue Ellen Janowiak of Kittery,
Maine; her mother, Hattie Moses
Grayson of Bessemer City; a broth-
er Robert Moses of Bessemer City;
a sister Edna M. Darby of
Bessemer City; six grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted by
the Revs. Rammy E. Lybrand and
Gregory Williams on Wednesday at
Holy trinity Lutheran Church.
Burial was in Hollywood
Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church Building
Fund, 805 S. York St., Gastonia,
N.C. 28052
Americans who have contributed
to the liberty and culture of Afro
Americans and Americans as a
whole will be recognized.
Guest professors from UNC at
Charlotte, G-W University in
Boiling Springs and Afro
American Culture Center of
Charlotte and the Johnson C..
Smith Gospel Choir will be fea-
tured in the special services.
The public is invited. Rev.
Oliver T. McCray Jr. is pastor.
Young Adult president is Dale
Ross.
KM Baptist sets
Valentine musical
The Kings Mountain Baptist
Church Adult Choir, under the di-
rection of Tracy Bolin, is preparing
a mini-musical for Valentine's Day.
The piece is entitled "With
Love." It was composed by Phil
and Lynne Brower and Dan
Wyrtzen.
The musical will be presented at
the 11 a.m. worship hour on
February 13.
El Bethel plans
Saturday breakfast
El Bethel United Methodist
Church will sponsor a country
breakfast and bake sale Saturday.
Serving will be from 6:30-10
a.m. The public is invited.
Thursday, February 3, 1994 -THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 3A
Nettie Stroupe is 30
Nettie P. Stroupe of Waco was
honored on her 80th birthday Jan.
23, by her family and friends at the
First Wesleyan Church in
Cherryville where she is a member.
The morning worship service
was in honor of Mrs. Stroupe. The
congregational hymns and offerto-
ry music were Mrs. Stroupe's fa-
vorites. Tributes were given by her
pastor, the Rev. Edwin A. Criscoe
and Eugene Griggs, a special
friend.
Mrs. Stroupe's niece, Ann
Mancuso, sang in honor of her
aunt. Flowers in the church in hon-
or of Mrs. Stroupe were provided
by her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Putnam and family.
A covered dish lunch was served
in the church fellowship hall. J.L.
"Buck" Fraley gave remarks of the
time he and Mrs. Stroupe and
members of their family lived at
the Wesleyan Hephzibah
Children's Home and the friendship
that has followed since that time.
Mrs. Stroupe's daughter, Judy
Saine, and granddaughters Priscilla
Saine and Debbie McCorkle served
birthday cake and punch to the
guests.
Those attending in addition to
Mrs. Stroupe's church family were
her daughter and son-in-law, Judy
and Howard Saine, granddaugh-
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