This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brackett, Paxton, Rollins, Mitchem, McArver, Steele, Reeves, Carter, Hardee Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YZ5.2ACIB/1035 Message Board Post: Gaston Gazette Gastonia, NC April 14, 2004 MARTHA ROLLINS MOUNT HOLLY - Martha Ann Brackett Rollins, 61, of Mount Holly died April 12, 2004, at Duke University Hospital, Durham. She was the daughter of Charlene Mitchem Brackett and the late Homer H. Brackett of Charlotte. FUNERAL: 11 a.m. Friday, Westmoreland Baptist Church, Charlotte GRAVESIDE SERVICE: 2:30 p.m. Friday, Kadish United Methodist Church Cemetery, Bellwood VISITATION: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, at the church She died of cancer treatment complications and is a 1960 graduate of West Mecklenburg High School. She received her nursing degree from Charlotte Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1963. Later in life, she returned to college and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Healthcare Management from Pheiffer University in 1998, Summa Cum Laude. She began her nursing career in neonatal care. Realizing there were no facilities for keeping children for her fellow nurses, she opened Martha's Day Care on the west side of Charlotte in the 1960s. Mrs. Rollins worked for Standard Crankshaft Co. Inc., a family-owned business in Charlotte. Later she and her former husband, Jim Paxton, opened P&B Enterprises Inc., a wholesale shooting sports distributing company. She was president and CEO of P&B Enterprises Inc., Shooter's Express Inc. and Rollins Police Supply Inc. Mrs. Rollins served on the Mount Holly Chamber of Commerce. An avid hunter and fisher, she shot skeet and trap competitively, winning many local, state, national and international championships. She was selected by Sports Afield Magazine to the 1975 All-America Skeet Team. In 1980, she was selected to the Sports Afield All-America Trap Team. These teams recognize the top 10 women shooters in the world. She is the only woman and the only North Carolina resident to be on both All-America teams. She also qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trapshooting Team and trained in Colorado Springs, but due to family commitments she was unable to go to the Olympics. In 1995 she was inducted into the N.C. Trapshooting Hall of Fame, the first woman to be so honored. Mrs. Rollins was the first vice-president of the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) and served on the board of directors for the National Association of Stocking Gun Dealers (NASGD) and the American Shooting Sports Council (ASSC), a lobbying and educational group repr! esenting the firearms industry and protecting Second Amendment rights. She also loved fishing and she and her husband Paul fished in local bass tournaments and with the Guys and Dolls Tournament Trail. A devoted Christian, she was a member of the Westmoreland Baptist Church in Charlotte. SURVIVORS: In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband, Paul E. Rollins Sr.; two sisters, Jane Brackett McArver of Cornelius and Rachel Brackett Steele of Concord; two children, Sandra Paxton Reeves and James W. (Jim) Paxton Jr.; two step-children, Paul E. Rollins Jr. of Easley, S.C., and Beth Rollins Carter of Spartanburg, S.C.; two grandchildren, Hannah Irene Reeves of Charlotte, Christopher James (C.J.) Paxton of Rockford, Ill.; two step-grandchildren, Jesse Mitchelle Hardee and Bentley Rollins Carter, both of Spartanburg OFFICIATING CLERGY: Revs. Jerry Cloninger and Max Pendleton MEMORIALS: The Martha Ann Brackett Rollins Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established at Carolinas College of Health Sciences to help fund needy, aspiring nursing students, and, in lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Carolinas Healthcare Foundation, P.O. Box 32861, Charlotte, NC 28232, Attn: Martha Ann Brackett Rollins Memorial Fund. ARRANGEMENTS: Woodlawn Funeral Home of Mount Holly