Obituaries
Dr. Harold E. Lindsey
( December 3, 1920 - September 27, 2018 )
Dr. Harold E. Lindsey, a dearly beloved and well-known Baptist Minister, passed peacefully from this life early on the morning of September 27, 2018. He would have been 98 on December 3rd.
His funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 6, 2018, at First Baptist Church with Rev. Phil Campbell and Dr. Dixon Free officiating. Burial will follow in Hollybrook Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 5, 2018, at Warlick Funeral Home.
During the last few months of his life, he was a resident in various nursing units at Abernethy Laurels in Newton, North Carolina where he was visited by numerous family members and friends from Lincolnton where he had resided for most of the last 35 years since his “first” retirement in December 1982.
Dr. Lindsey spent his entire life working to bring the hope of Christianity to a world that he believed was thirsting for the message of Christ. His long ministry began as a teenager with street corner preaching in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.
Through all of his ministerial efforts and his continuing professional activities in retirement, Dr. Lindsey was supported by his first wife, the late Margaret Jane Childs Lindsey. He was always a man who valued the support and love of a partner and, in August 2015, he convinced Mary Lou Greene of Lincolnton that she should marry him. His entire family is eternally grateful for the love they shared and the support and comfort that she gave to him.
Dr. Lindsey is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Greene Lindsey; of the home; son, H. Eugene Lindsey, Jr., and his wife Nancy, of New London, New Hampshire; his son, Ed Lindsey, and his wife Debbie, of Lincolnton; his daughter, Margaret Jane Jenkins, and her husband Tom, of Birmingham, Alabama, and his daughter, Laura Coffey McNitt, and her husband Roger, of Rome, Georgia. He is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren spread across the country. Most of his family was present together with him and Mary Lou in Lincolnton on Father’s Day this last June.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, in memory of Dr. Harold E. Lindsey, 201 Robin Road, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
His funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 6, 2018, at First Baptist Church with Rev. Phil Campbell and Dr. Dixon Free officiating. Burial will follow in Hollybrook Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 5, 2018, at Warlick Funeral Home.
During the last few months of his life, he was a resident in various nursing units at Abernethy Laurels in Newton, North Carolina where he was visited by numerous family members and friends from Lincolnton where he had resided for most of the last 35 years since his “first” retirement in December 1982.
Dr. Lindsey spent his entire life working to bring the hope of Christianity to a world that he believed was thirsting for the message of Christ. His long ministry began as a teenager with street corner preaching in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.
Through all of his ministerial efforts and his continuing professional activities in retirement, Dr. Lindsey was supported by his first wife, the late Margaret Jane Childs Lindsey. He was always a man who valued the support and love of a partner and, in August 2015, he convinced Mary Lou Greene of Lincolnton that she should marry him. His entire family is eternally grateful for the love they shared and the support and comfort that she gave to him.
Dr. Lindsey is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Greene Lindsey; of the home; son, H. Eugene Lindsey, Jr., and his wife Nancy, of New London, New Hampshire; his son, Ed Lindsey, and his wife Debbie, of Lincolnton; his daughter, Margaret Jane Jenkins, and her husband Tom, of Birmingham, Alabama, and his daughter, Laura Coffey McNitt, and her husband Roger, of Rome, Georgia. He is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren spread across the country. Most of his family was present together with him and Mary Lou in Lincolnton on Father’s Day this last June.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, in memory of Dr. Harold E. Lindsey, 201 Robin Road, Lincolnton, NC 28092.
Posted on 28 Sep 2018
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