Candler - Mattie R. Price, 87, of Hominy Valley Retirement Center, formerly of Avery's Creek Road, went to be with the Lord on Nov. 1, 2005.
Mrs. Price was born in Jackson County, but spent most of her life in Buncombe County. She was the daughter of the late Ralph and Kathern Nicholson Rigdon and was preceded in death by her husband, who died in March 2004. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Charlotte Parker and Rezell Mathis and brother, J. M. Rigdon. She retired from Buncombe County School System as a nutritional specialist and was a member of Words of Life Tabernacle which she attended regularly until her lengthily illness.
Survivors include her three daughters, Beverly Lorenz and her husband, Ray, of Orlando, Fla., Martha Moses and her husband, Paul, of Candler and Bettie Jean Allen and her husband, Cliff, of Mars Hill; two sons, William Holmes Price Jr. and his wife, Wanda, of Mills River and A.R. Price and his wife, Kathryn, of Arden; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Edna Corson and brother, Alvin Rigdon, both of Tuckaseegee.
The funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian on Long Shoals Road with the Rev. David Glenn officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Price was born in Jackson County, but spent most of her life in Buncombe County. She was the daughter of the late Ralph and Kathern Nicholson Rigdon and was preceded in death by her husband, who died in March 2004. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Charlotte Parker and Rezell Mathis and brother, J. M. Rigdon. She retired from Buncombe County School System as a nutritional specialist and was a member of Words of Life Tabernacle which she attended regularly until her lengthily illness.
Survivors include her three daughters, Beverly Lorenz and her husband, Ray, of Orlando, Fla., Martha Moses and her husband, Paul, of Candler and Bettie Jean Allen and her husband, Cliff, of Mars Hill; two sons, William Holmes Price Jr. and his wife, Wanda, of Mills River and A.R. Price and his wife, Kathryn, of Arden; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Edna Corson and brother, Alvin Rigdon, both of Tuckaseegee.
The funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian on Long Shoals Road with the Rev. David Glenn officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Candler - Mattie R. Price, 87, of Hominy Valley Retirement Center, formerly of Avery's Creek Road, went to be with the Lord on Nov. 1, 2005.
Mrs. Price was born in Jackson County, but spent most of her life in Buncombe County. She was the daughter of the late Ralph and Kathern Nicholson Rigdon and was preceded in death by her husband, who died in March 2004. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Charlotte Parker and Rezell Mathis and brother, J. M. Rigdon. She retired from Buncombe County School System as a nutritional specialist and was a member of Words of Life Tabernacle which she attended regularly until her lengthily illness.
Survivors include her three daughters, Beverly Lorenz and her husband, Ray, of Orlando, Fla., Martha Moses and her husband, Paul, of Candler and Bettie Jean Allen and her husband, Cliff, of Mars Hill; two sons, William Holmes Price Jr. and his wife, Wanda, of Mills River and A.R. Price and his wife, Kathryn, of Arden; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Edna Corson and brother, Alvin Rigdon, both of Tuckaseegee.
The funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian on Long Shoals Road with the Rev. David Glenn officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Price was born in Jackson County, but spent most of her life in Buncombe County. She was the daughter of the late Ralph and Kathern Nicholson Rigdon and was preceded in death by her husband, who died in March 2004. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Charlotte Parker and Rezell Mathis and brother, J. M. Rigdon. She retired from Buncombe County School System as a nutritional specialist and was a member of Words of Life Tabernacle which she attended regularly until her lengthily illness.
Survivors include her three daughters, Beverly Lorenz and her husband, Ray, of Orlando, Fla., Martha Moses and her husband, Paul, of Candler and Bettie Jean Allen and her husband, Cliff, of Mars Hill; two sons, William Holmes Price Jr. and his wife, Wanda, of Mills River and A.R. Price and his wife, Kathryn, of Arden; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Edna Corson and brother, Alvin Rigdon, both of Tuckaseegee.
The funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian on Long Shoals Road with the Rev. David Glenn officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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