YANCEY COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Mary Loucretia Young Banks - Dec 11, 1934
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Taken from a photocopy of an unnamed newspaper, courtesy Margaret Loucretia 
Banks Griffith of Yancey County, daughter of the deceased.

Transcribed by Marshall Styles, marshallstyles@yahoo.com

Rites Are Held At Burnsville For Mrs. Banks
Burnsville - August 15 (Special) - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Young Banks, 
49, wife of P.M. Banks, chief deputy sheriff of Yancey County, who died at her 
home in East Burnsville Saturday after a short illness, were held at the Banks 
home Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. The Reverend Holland Black, pastor of the 
Windom Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. J.L. Reynolds, pastor of the 
Higgins Memorial Methodist Church of Burnsville, and the Rev. R.E. Powell, 
pastor of the Burnsville Baptist Church conducted the services. Burial was in 
Banks Cemetery at Bolen's Creek.
Mrs. Banks was the daughter of Mrs. Laura Young and the late Joshua Young. She 
had been a faithful church member since she joined the church at the age of 
12. At the age of 14, she was married to P.M. Banks and they had made their 
home in Burnsville since.
Besides her mother and husband, she is survived by 11 children, Mrs. C.E. 
Dellinger of Asheville, Mrs. Kenneth Hensley of Micaville, Mrs. Dawson Briggs, 
Helen, Mary Martha, Frances, Margaret, Drate, Ruth, Esby and Wesley Banks, all 
of Burnsville; one sister, Mrs. Lonnie Banks of Burnsville; one brother, Drate 
Young, of Banks Creek, and three grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: Joshua, Jack, and Lee Banks, Rhea and Bascomb 
Penland, William Higgins, Joe Banner, and Clyde Bennett. The flower girls 
were: Misses Lucile and Lillian Banks, Misses May and Dora Young, Misses 
Joanna and Nola Penland, Mrs. Maphra Banner, Mrs. Maude Higgins, and Mrs. 
Jesse Craven.

[Note: Mary Loucretia Young was born in Yancey County on 18 July 1885 to 
Joshua Young and Laura Jane Upright Young. She married Plato Marion Banks in 
Burnsville, Yancey County, on 14 September 1899. He was a son of Wesley 
Britain Banks and Mary Ann Ray Young.]


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