Sallie Garvin

Mrs. Sallie Hughes Garvin of Crescent Heights passed away Sunday, July 17, 2016 at Tucker Hospice House.

Her funeral will be 3:00 p.m. Thursday July 21, 2016 at Wilkinson Funeral Home Chapel officiated by Rev. Tom Anderson. Burial will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

Sallie was born July 2, 1917 in Gaffney, SC to the late Jefferson Davis Hughes and Sallie LeMasters Hughes. She was the last of their 7 children. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Garvin.

Sallie graduated from Limestone College and went on to teach school for 40 years - primarily the 3rd grade at Beverly Hills Elementary School. She was also a member of First Baptist Church.

Sallie is survived by numerous nieces including Barbara H. Widenhouse and her husband, A.W., Charlotte Keifer and her husband, Walter, all of Concord; Julia Deberry Turner of Matthews; numerous great- nieces and-nephews including Aubie Cook, Brent Widenhouse, Tracie McMillan, and Maria Miller; great-great nieces and-nephews include Amanda Sorrow, Elizabeth Peters, Laura Cook, Courtney Ryczek, Robyn Murphy and Parker Widenhouse; and great- great- great nephew, Charlie Sorrow.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, PO Box 643, Concord, NC 28026 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.