Vera Samuels

Sunday, September 30, 2007 October 01, 2007 09:14 am

— Vera Hatley Samuels, 101, of Stony Gap Road, Albemarle, died at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, at the Lutheran Home in Albemarle.
She was born Thursday, July 19, 1906, in Stanly County.
She had been employed by Pee Dee Hosiery, Pee Dee, N.C. as a looper.
Vera was educated at Ingram School. She enjoyed fishing and “going,” riding around and especially going to Morrow Mountain, Badin Lake and Midland for strawberry sundaes. She took her first plane ride at the age of 75 when she went to Hawaii to visit family. Cooking Sunday dinner for her family was her joy; homemade biscuits, fried chicken, potatoes, fried okra and squash, was her specialty. She considered hot peppers and hard work as contributing to her good health. Her philosophy was: Don’t let anyone run over you; and boss your own way. Honesty and getting it right was her policy. She lived from the horse and buggy days, to the man on the moon and computer days.
Survivors are a sister, Grace Comer of Albemarle; grandchildren, Lynn Sam-uels, Sheila and Darrell Hudson, Amy and Hal Speer of Albemarle; great-grandchildren, Leigh Hudson and Christopher Hudson; six great-great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary “Maggie” Laton Hatley; her father, Stephen Alexander “SA” Hatley; husbands, Marvin “Pelo” Hill, Charles “CW” Taylor and James Roland Samuels; a son, Hobart Lee Samuels; brothers, Arthur Hatley, Chester Hatley, Everett Hatley and Grady Hatley, and sisters, Minnie Morton, Mary Elizabeth Helms, Ethel Carpenter and Pearl Byerly.
Visitation will be at Hartsell Funeral Home, Albemarle, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1.
Service will be at Hartsell Funeral Home’s Lefler Memorial Chapel at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1. Officiating will be The Rev. David Hatley and Mr. Kent Bunting.
Burial will be at Anderson Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Albemarle.
Hartsell Funeral Home of- Albemarle is in charge.

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