OBITUARY:  Mrs. Mary Smith, 3 Jan 2003 - Madison County, GA

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Kannapolis, North Carolina
Independent Tribune

Name:  Mary "Flora" Sorrow Smith
Age:  86
Address:  1451 Christina Court, KANNAPOLIS, NC
Died:  Friday, Jan. 3, 2003, at her residence after six months of 
declining health. 
Services:  3 p.m. Monday at Whitley's Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial:  West Lawn Memorial Park in China Grove. The family will
receive friends from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday at Whitley's Funeral Home. 
At other times they will be at a family residence, at 1451 Christina 
Court in Kannapolis.
Born:  April 1, 1917, in Madison County, Ga.
Parents:  William Sorrow and Susie Lord Sorrow. She moved to 
Kannapolis in 1947.
Occupation:  Worked for Cannon Mills Plant 1, in the wash cloth and 
weave rooms for about 40 years until she retired in 1986. 
Religion:  Baptist faith.
Preceded in death:  by her husband, William Thomas Smith in 1987; 
three brothers, Clifford, Ernest and Ruben Sorrow; two sisters, Mae 
Davis and Katie Lord; one granddaughter, Donna Shockley; and one 
great-granddaughter, Lauren Miller.
Survivors:  a daughter, Mary Ann Shockley of Kannapolis; a son, Billy
Smith of China Grove; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one
great-great-grandchild; and one "adopted" grandson, Marcus Gabriel.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cabarrus County, 65 Lake Concord 
Road, NE, Concord, NC 28025.