>From: "Lynn E.Wesson" <Lynn@fastcode.com> >To: NCLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com > > >This obituary appeared in the High Point Enterprise on 2/27/04. Mrs Yount >was from Catawba Co. originally and taught in Lincoln Co. at one time. {She >was my second grade teacher in High Point, NC, in 1960!} >Lynn Wesson >Chapel Hill, NC > >Helen Yount >FAYETTEVILLE - Helen Foard Yount, the youngest child of Dr. Fred T. Foard, >died Feb. 23, 2004, from acute dementia in Fayetteville, following a long >period of poor health. >She had been in the care of Village Green Rehabilitation Center in >Fayetteville for more than six years. >A native of Catawba County, she was born in 1918, a child of Dr. Fred T. >Foard and Mattie Hoover Foard. Dr. Foard, after whom Fred T Foard High >School was named, was 63 when Helen was born. A North Carolina educator for >more than 45 she taught at Banoak Elementary in Vale, Grace Chapel >Elementary in Granite Falls, Thornton Elementary in Newton, Montlieu >Elementary in High Point, and completed her career at Murray School at Ft. >Bragg. She also was an elementary supervisor in Randolph County. >She taught in the CCC Camps during the 1930s. She was an active part of the >teacher-training program of Appalachian State University and served on the >summer faculty of A.S.U. during the 1960s. She earned a Bachelor of Arts >degree from Lenoir Rhyne College in 1938, graduating at age 19. In addition, >she held an Ed. M. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. >A consummate educator, she was active with numerous teacher advocacy groups >on the local, state and national level. In addition to her parents, she was >preceded in death by a brother, Thomas Foard; half sisters, Mrs. George M. >Chapman, Mrs. Hiram S. Balch, and Mrs. George Penton; half brothers, Dr. >Fred T. Foard Jr. and Dr. Frank O. Foard; and Dr. C.K. Lynn and Mrs. Attley >Rhoney, who were raised as members of the Foard household. >Surviving are one son, Bobby Lon Yount and his wife, Elizabeth, of San Jose, >Calif. >A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Sardis Lutheran Church >Cemetery, 6103 N.C. 10 West, Hickory, with the Rev. Robert Howard >officiating. >Memorial gifts may be made to Sardis Lutheran Church at the address shown >above. >Sossoman Funeral Home, Morganton is assisting the family with arrangements. >(Obituary published in High Point Enterprise, High Point, North Carolina, >2/27/2004). > > > >==== NCLINCOL Mailing List ==== >==== LINCOLN Co., NC Mailing List ==== >Sharing information on Historic Lincoln Co., NC >For further info, see www.rootsweb.com/~nclincol/nclincoln.htm >Our thanks to RootsWeb for hosting this list and web page