Gaston Gazette Gastonia, NC January 20, 1999 Sarah I. Faires MOUNT HOLLY - Sarah Erselle Ingram Faires, 86, 221 Summitt Ave., died Jan. 18, 1999, at Belaire Health Center, Gastonia. She was a native of Rock Hill, S.C., daughter of the late Arthur Franklin and Mary "Mamie" Jane Neal Price Ingram, wife of the late Robert William Faires Sr., sister of the late Herbert Tracy Ingram, Nancy Elizabeth Ingram Brazil, half sister of the late Ollie Mae Price Ferrell, mother-in-law of the late Edward Elbert Welch, homemaker, member of First United Methodist Church, circle, Mount Holly Chapter No. 345 Order of the Eastern Star for 50 years. SURVIVORS: Sons and daughters-in-law, Robert W. Jr. and Mary Sue Carlyon Faires, Cherryville, Ned Tracy and Rae Tuck Faires, Atlanta; daughter, Mary Gene Faires Welch, Lakeland, Fla.; grandchildren and spouses, Melinda Ann Faires, Clovis, N.M., Robert William III and Margaret Katherine Hill Faires, Mobile, Ala., Katherine Rae Faires and James Paul Huggins, Cherryville, Mary Regina Welch Combee, Lakeland, Sara Thersa Welch and Ronnie Meneses, Chile, Amy Delores Welch and Paul Edward Harkness, Jacksonville, Fla., Ned Tracy and Terri Kay Hammond Faires, Mauldin, S.C., Neal Michael Faires, Atlanta, Nichole Rae Faires and James Christopher Stephens, Fort Worth, Texas; 11 great-grandchildren MEMORIAL SERVICE OF WORSHIP: 11 a.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church, Rev. Mitchell Murrow VISITATION: Today at the home MEMORIALS: First United Methodist Church Property Fund, 140 N. Main St., Mount Holly 28120 ARRANGEMENTS: Carothers Funeral Home, Mount Holly