Annie Suddreth O'Kelley

Annie Suddreth O’Kelley, 85, died Friday, June 17, 2005, at the Hospice Solace Center following a brief illness. Mrs. O’Kelley was a lifelong resident of Buncombe County and was a daughter of the late Burly Azore and Mamie Setser Suddreth. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Oliver O’Kelley, who died in 1965, a daughter Mary Sharon O’Kelley, and sisters Onnie O’Kelley and Alma Lindsey. She worked at American Enka for thirty years and was a member of Hominy Valley Independent Church. Surviving are her son, Bill O’Kelley and his wife Elizabeth; three granddaughters, Christy Halpin and her husband J.B. of Candler, Sherry Caverlee and her husband James of Atlanta, GA, and Virginia O’Kelley; great-grandsons Michael Halpin and Luke Caverlee; sisters Mable Reynolds, Helen Black, and Glenna McCoy; brothers B.A. Suddreth and Wayne Suddreth, and several nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Austin Watts officiating. Burial will be at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Sunday and request that memorials be made to Hominy Valley Independent Church, PO Box 1957, Candler, NC 28715.