Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Sparks, Carrie Byrd February 28, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak jkodak@aol.com March 6, 2008, 6:35 pm Mitchell News-Journal 3/5/2008 CARRIE BYRD SPARKS BAKERSVILLE - Carrie Byrd Sparks, 99, of Highway 226 North, died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008 at Brian Center Healthcare in Spruce Pine. She was the daughter of the late Will and Lizzie Young Byrd, and wife of the late Jesse Sparks. She was also preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters. Survivors include two daughters, Marilyn Queen of Bakersville, and Theresa Murdock of Marion; a son, Deward Sparks of Bakersville; nine grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral services were held at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cub Creek Baptist Church. Burial was at 2 p.m. Sunday in Bailey Memorial Cemetery. The family received friends from 6 p.m. until the service hour Saturday at the church. Henline- Hughes Funeral Home assisted the family. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/s/sparks1534gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb