Obituaries

Ruth Hoyle Black, age 74 of 2232 Union Church Road in Lincolnton, died on Wednesday, August 8, 2012

A graveside service will be held at 11:30 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012 at Forest Lawn Cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 10:00 until 11:00 am on Saturday at Warlick Funeral Home. 

Mrs. Black was born August 22, 1937 in Catawba County to the late Ambrose Clyde and Annie Mae Elmore Hoyle. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by a son, Donnie Max Price. She worked in textiles.  

She is survived by two daughters, Sherry Baumgardner and husband David, and Chatty Hudson, all of Lincolnton; two sons, Doug Watts and wife Andrea of Lincolnton and Danny Watts and wife Brenda of Newton;  one brother, Danny Hoyle of Newton; one sister, Betty Robinson of Newton; ten grandchildren, Shawn Baumgardner and wife Julie, Timothy Baumgardner, Michael Lee Price and wife Kate Price, Jeffrey Max Price and wife Hollie Hansen Price, Kristy B. Rathbone and husband Gene, Robin Huss and husband Matthew, Rachel Hudson, Matthew Watts, Jordan Watts, Brandy Towery; and eleven great-grandchildren, Abbigail Baumgardner, Craig Rathbone, Derick Rathbone, Inman Rathbone, Ethan Chandler Price, Nicholas Alexander Price, Madalyn Huss, Jonas Price, Greyson Price, Adelaide Price, and Sawyer Price. 

My Mom was a miracle worker.  With little money she always managed to put clean clothes on me, take a few cans of food and make it seem like a feast, squeeze her budget so that she could buy me that thing I just had to have, be my nurse, teacher, counselor, cook, maid, and friend, and still greet the world with a smile.  Others may have had more money than we did but no one had a better mother. 

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Lincoln County, 107 N. Cedar Street, Lincolnton, NC 28092.