Carroll Hayes Lance
May 15, 1939 ~ October 8, 2005
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Asheville Butterfly Trail
Carroll Hayes Lance, 66, of 27 Delaware Avenue, Asheville, died Saturday, October 8, 2005, at St. Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Lance was born in Asheville and was a son of the late Carroll Merritt and Alice Quinn Lance. He was preceded in death by a brother, Robert Merritt Lance who died in 1991.
Mr. Lance graduated from Lee H. Edwards High School and retired from the US Postal Service in 1991 after 31 years, most recently as a rural mail carrier.
He is survived by his wife, Royanna Haik Lance; three daughters, Cathy Lance Curtis and her husband Robert of Asheville, Rhonda Lance Gantt and her husband Joe of Garner and Sharon Denise Lance of Charlotte; one son, David Merritt Lance and his wife Teresa of Germanton; seven grandsons, Robbie Curtis, Jonathan Curtis, Nathaniel Curtis, Matt Gantt, Tommy Gantt, Michael Gantt and Matthew Lance, and one great-granddaughter Allie Gantt.
A graveside service will be at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Green Hills Cemetery with the Rev. John M. Pagel officiating.
Pallbearers will be Jackie Deweese, Steve Fannon, Ricky Haik, Brian Lambert, Steve Lambert, Jimmy Messer, Gilio Provenzano, and Bobby Smith. His grandsons will serve as honorary pallbearers.
His family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Mountain Area Hospice, PO Box 25331, Asheville, NC 28813, or to the Enka High School Booster Club, PO Box 186, Enka, NC 28728.
We want you to know that you are in our Prayers. We pray that God will lift you up in this time of great pain. Even when we know that our loved one is with the Lord we still have a void. God knows our pain and we pray that he will comfort you at this time.
We wish to express our sincere sympathy on your loss. We are with you in spirit…God be with you
May the Lord comfort Kathy and the family. Pastor Isaac & Abigail Owolabi
Our hearts go out to you in this time. We share your grief as we will miss but never forget his smile and laugh.
All our love,
Jerry,Eydie,& Fly.
Dear Sharon,
I was very sad to hear about this,
my thoughts and prayers are with you
and your family. Let me know if I
help in any way.
Our love and sympathy to all of Carrol’s wonderful family. remember all the Good Times at Lake Lure.
Wanted you to know how sorry we are about Pee Wee’s passing. Bless his heart he was really sick for quite sometime. He certainally is going to be missed. You are in our thoughts & prayers. Please know that we are here for you and if you need us please don’t hesitate to call on us. We love you people and always have been great neighbors to us. Thinking of you at this time. Prayerfully, Tony & Frances Hensley
David-
I am sorry to hear about your father. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers….God Bless….Michelle Belcher
David(Teresa), I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. I know its not easy losing a parent, but cherish the memories that you have. I am praying for you and your family that God’s grace will be sufficient in this time of need.
I work with David @ Piedmont Hawthorne and just wanted to relay my deepest sympathy to the entire family for your loss.
We think very highly of David and even though I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Carroll, I know that he must have also been a wonderful man and parent. We will be thinking of you all during these next few months and will ‘be there’ for David should he need us.
Brenda Merrill
Friend of David
Just wanted you all to know that Harrison and I are thinking about you now, as always, and sending our sincerest condolences. I know this is a very difficult time for you all, and please know that we are here for you in whatever you might need. Our families have shared so many great times together, and I’ll always remember Mr. Lance as the guy with a joke or some hijinx to keep us all laughing and loving eachother. All the times he drove us around the lake for hours and all the great times we shared are etched in my memory. Our lives have been blessed by times together, and we will always cherish them. God bless you and keep you now and always. We love you!
Sorry to the family of Carroll.
A 57 LEHS classmate of Carroll.
Sincere sympathy to the family of Carroll Lance, a 1954-57 classmate at Lee Edwards High School. I always looked forward to seeing ‘Pee Wee’s’ smiling face in the halls. He had a talent for brightening even the dullest class. May God bless all his family.
–H. Mack Anders
I am so sorry to hear about Carroll,(PeeWee). We went to Lee Edwards together and I always remember him as nice young man with a good sense of humor. He was always a perfect gentleman and was liked by all. My deepest sympathy to all of his family for I know he will be greatly missed, but remember the good times and he will never be gone. He will always be with you.
Again my deepest sympathy,
Peggy Guest-Totherow
Our deepest sympathy to the entire
family.We both went to school with him and remember him from class.If there is anything we can do we will. Just let us know.
Our deepest sympathy to all his loved ones. We went to school with him. If there is anything we can do, let us know.
I WENT BY THE HOUSE MON. NITE. FIRST TIME I HAD BEEN BY THEIR IN A GOOD MANY YEARS.SURE DID BRING BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES. I REMINDED ROYANNA THAT I HAD AN INVESTMENT IN HER HOUSE.I’LL LET YOU ASK HER THE DETAILS.I DIDN’T FEEL OLD TILL I SAW ALL 4 OF PEEWEE’S KIDS TOGETHER. I’VE KNOWN THESE 2 CATS SINCE TIME. WE WILL CATCH UP AFTER THINGS SETTLE DOWN. PEEWEE AN I MET UP AT THE OLD DAVID MILLARD JR. HIGH. THEN ON TO LEE H. EDWARDS. WE WERE BOTH RACE FANS AN WE WERE ALSO COUSIN’S. I WORKED FOR HIS DAD (LANCE CHEF SERVICE) FOR A LOT OF YEARS. OR FOR SOME OF YOU IT WAS ALSO DEMOCRAT HDQ’S. MY PRAYER’S ARE WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY. MAY GOD BLESS JOHNNY
Dear Royanna,
We are very sorry about PeaWee’s passing and hope that he is at peace now.
Everything has been so hard for you lately. Please let us know if we can be of any help.
Take care of yourself.
Sincerely,
your neighbors,
Robin Clark and Ryn Hayes