REBECCA P. ELMORE


LOUISBURG - Rebecca Perry Stallings Elmore, 83, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Funeral services were conducted Friday, April 18, at Maple Springs Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jay Tilley and the Rev. Richard Smith officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

She was a daughter of the late Oliver Wiston and Nellie Cade Wilder Perry. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Kerman B. Stallings, and her sisters, Virginia P. Mitchner and Billie P. Etheridge. She was a member of Maple Springs Baptist Church where she was a deacon and a Sunday school teacher. Mrs. Elmore was a Franklin County school teacher for more than 30 years, having taught at Pearces, Coopers, Louisburg and Bunn.

Surviving: her husband, Joseph E. “Joe” Elmore; sisters, Linda P. Jones of Smithfield and Nell P. Beasley of Louisburg; several nieces and nephews.

Flowers accepted or memorials may be made to Maple Springs Baptist Church, 1938 N.C. 56 Highway E., Louisburg, NC 27549.