This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farris, Childers, Hughes, Caldwell, Lovelace, Spearman, Roark Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeV.2ACEB/1796 Message Board Post: Does anyone know who the parents of this John Farris were? The Star Shelby, NC December 22, 2003 Ethel Childers KINGS MOUNTAIN - Mrs. Ethel Farris Childers, 96, of 303 El Bethel Road, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, at Kings Mountain hospital. A native of Cherokee County, S.C., she was a member of Dixon Presbyterian Church and a member of Young at Heart at Oak View Baptist Church and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Mary Patterson Farris; her husband, John Emett Childers; a daughter, Betty Ruth Childers Hughes; and brothers and sisters. She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Mildred and John Caldwell of Kings Mountain, Faye and George Lovelace of Pineville, Doris and Glenn Spearman of Kings Mountain and Joyce and Don Roark of Kings Mountain; 10 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; and one great-great-great grandchild. The funeral will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Oak View Baptist Church with the Revs. Randy Patterson, James Billings, and Carey Caldwell officiating. Burial will follow in Oak View Baptist Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Harris Funeral Home and at other times at the home of Mildred Caldwell, 303 El Bethel Road, Kings Mountain. Memorials may be made to Dixon Presbyterian Church, in care of Jackie Hughes, 115 Hughes Drive, Kings Mountain, NC 28086 or to Oak View Baptist Church, 1517 Oak View Baptist Church Road, Kings Mountain, NC 28086