Eighth Generation

4816. Della "Lucille" HEDRICK was born on 26 February 1920 in Catawba County, North Carolina.¹⁶⁸² She died on 16 August 2008 at the age of 88 in Catawba Valley Assisted Living Center at Rock Barn, Conover, NC. Her obituary appeared as follows: CLAREMONT - Della "Lucille" Hedrick Bumgarner, 88, of Claremont, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008, at Catawba Valley Assisted Living at Rock Barn. Born Feb. 7, 1920, in Catawba County, she was the daughter of the late Festus Hedrick and Ina Elizabeth Houston Hedrick. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Vance Monroe Bumgarner; a son, Festus Monroe Bumgarner; sisters, Pearline Shook, Lovella Adams, Virginia Ward, Ruth Walker, Bertie Shook and Edna Shook; brothers, Everett Hedrick, Clarence Hedrick and Claude Hedrick; and a daughter-in-law, Brenda Sims Hedrick. She is survived by her daughter, Sue Bumgarner Moore and her husband, Roger, of Claremont; sons, Ray Hedrick and his wife, Rachel, and James Clifford Bumgarner and his wife, Fredonna, all of Claremont; four grandchildren, Paul Ray Hedrick, James "J.C." C. Bumgarner Jr., Mary Katherine Bumgarner and Tammie Annette Bumgarner; three stepgrandchildren, Mac Beach, Jack Beach and Mark Beach; eight great-grandchildren, Robert James Blalock, William Marshall Shook, Tessie Blackburn, Martie Michelle Blackburn, Belynda D. Hedrick, Makayla Rae Hedrick, James Allen Bumgarner and Jacob Dalton Bumgarner; three stepgreat-grandchildren, Tyler Beach, Andrew Beach and Wesley Reynolds; and a brother, James Festus Hedrick of Claremont. A Service of Remembrance will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, in the Chapel of Drum Funeral Home in Conover, with the Rev. Lloyd King officiating. Burial will follow in St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Conover. The family will receive friends prior to the service, from 10 to 11 a.m., at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Palliative CareCenter & Hospice of Catawba Valley, 3975 Robinson Road, Newton, N.C. 28658. The Bumgarner family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Conover. [Published in the Hickory Daily Record on 8/18/2008] She was buried in St. John's Lutheran Church (MO Synod) Cemetery, Conover, Catawba County, NC.

Della "Lucille" HEDRICK and Vance Monroe BUMGARNER were married estimated 1941. Vance Monroe BUMGARNER, son of Alfred Monroe BUMGARNER and Carrie May SIGMON, was born on 3 December 1916 in Catawba County, North Carolina.²⁹¹⁴ He died on 10 August 1988 at the age of 71 in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina.²⁹¹⁵ Festus Monroe was born in Clines Twp, [Catawba Co NC Birth Rec Bk58/78] son of Vance Monroe Bumgarner who was a son of Alfred Monroe Bumgarner and Carrie May Sigmon. I do not have the wife of Vance Monroe who was born 13 Dec 1916 Catawba Co NC and died 10 Aug 1988, Hickory, Catawba Co NC . Other children of Vance Monroe Bumgarner are: Margaret Ann Bumgarner born Newton, Catawba Co NC 26 Sep 1947 Birth Rec Bk 33/541; James Clifford Bumgarner born Hickory, Catawba Co NC 5 Sept 1947 Birth Rec 33/844; Forney May Bumgarner born Hickory, Catawba Co NC 23 Jun 1951 Birth Rec Bk 37/226. The name of the mother was not given on the birth records and the anc.com does not have marriage records for this time span. [E-mail per Noma Wike on 5 January 2007]

Della "Lucille" HEDRICK and Vance Monroe BUMGARNER had the following children: