Maxton
Mrs. Gretchen H. McGirt, age 92, of 342 Bryant’s Circle Road, died Saturday, March 29, 2008 at Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, NC. She was preceded in death by her husband: Bill McGirt; her mother: Georgianna Hunt; her father: Oakley McMillian; her sister: Nazova (Maggie) Hunt; her brothers: Delmour Oxendine, Luey Deese, Joseph (Nick) Hunt, Donald Ray Hunt and Sandy Hunt; her daughters: Billie Jean Ray and Gretchen M. Berry; her son: William Gordon McGirt; her grandson: Walter S. Roberts and her great-grandsons: Bobby Gordon Berry and Kameron Brett Locklear.
The funeral will be conducted 3:00p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at Cherokee Chapel Methodist Holiness Church with the Revs: Michael Cummings, Jimmy Locklear and Bruce Swett officiating. Burial will follow in the Sandcutt Cemetery.
Surviving are six daughters: Margaret Quick, Janie Spence, Sandra Cummings, Patricia Locklear all of Maxton, Peggy Swett and Becky Brooks of Pembroke; a son: William C. Ray of Pembroke; a step-son: Glenn Lucas of Winston Salem; a sister: Mary Jane Brewer of Red Springs and a brother: Harold L. Hunt of Pennsylvania; thirty-five grandchildren; eighty-three great-grandchildren; twenty-four great-great-grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.
The family will receive friends Monday, March 31, 2008, from 7-9 p.m. at Locklear & Son Funeral Home.