"Uncle Joe" as we knew him was raised by my grandparents- Henry Ellis Shoaf and Sarah Loretta Miller Shoaf. Uncle Joe's mother, Laura Catherine Turner Shoaf died when Uncle Joe was 11 months old and four years later his father, Chalmers Sink Shoaf died. I grew up thinking Uncle Joe was my grandmother's brother and did not learn the truth until I was a grown woman.
Obituary for Joe Shoaf:From the Mooresville, NC paper
JOE SHOAF, 100, DIES; FUNERAL MONDAY AT 2
A former Mooresville resident - Joseph Turner Shoaf, 100, a resident at Hawthorne Nursing Center in Charlotte--died at the home Saturday.
A native of Rowan County, Mr. Shoaf was born on December 14, 1883.
Mr. Shoaf, who attended Mooresville High School, was in business in Richmond, Va., before locating in Washington, D. C. , where for 40 years he was a wholesale lumber merchant.
He retired in 1952 and returned to Mooresville to make his home.
Mr. Shoaf was a life member of the Almas Shrine Temple in Washington, D. C., having joined the Shrine in 1926.
Surviving are one cousin, Miss Mary Shoaf, formerly of Mooresville, now a resident of the Presbyterian Home in High Point; and one nephew Edwin Shoaf of Huntersville.
Funeral services for Mr. Shoaf were conducted at 4 p. m. Monday in the E. C. Cavin Memorial Chapel of the Cavin Funeral Home in Mooresville, with the Rev. S. Edwin Lewis, the Rev. Vance Polley and the Rev. John William officiating. Burial was in the Back Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery at Mount Ulla.
Obituary for Joe Shoaf:From the Mooresville, NC paper
JOE SHOAF, 100, DIES; FUNERAL MONDAY AT 2
A former Mooresville resident - Joseph Turner Shoaf, 100, a resident at Hawthorne Nursing Center in Charlotte--died at the home Saturday.
A native of Rowan County, Mr. Shoaf was born on December 14, 1883.
Mr. Shoaf, who attended Mooresville High School, was in business in Richmond, Va., before locating in Washington, D. C. , where for 40 years he was a wholesale lumber merchant.
He retired in 1952 and returned to Mooresville to make his home.
Mr. Shoaf was a life member of the Almas Shrine Temple in Washington, D. C., having joined the Shrine in 1926.
Surviving are one cousin, Miss Mary Shoaf, formerly of Mooresville, now a resident of the Presbyterian Home in High Point; and one nephew Edwin Shoaf of Huntersville.
Funeral services for Mr. Shoaf were conducted at 4 p. m. Monday in the E. C. Cavin Memorial Chapel of the Cavin Funeral Home in Mooresville, with the Rev. S. Edwin Lewis, the Rev. Vance Polley and the Rev. John William officiating. Burial was in the Back Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery at Mount Ulla.
"Uncle Joe" as we knew him was raised by my grandparents- Henry Ellis Shoaf and Sarah Loretta Miller Shoaf. Uncle Joe's mother, Laura Catherine Turner Shoaf died when Uncle Joe was 11 months old and four years later his father, Chalmers Sink Shoaf died. I grew up thinking Uncle Joe was my grandmother's brother and did not learn the truth until I was a grown woman.
Obituary for Joe Shoaf:From the Mooresville, NC paper
JOE SHOAF, 100, DIES; FUNERAL MONDAY AT 2
A former Mooresville resident - Joseph Turner Shoaf, 100, a resident at Hawthorne Nursing Center in Charlotte--died at the home Saturday.
A native of Rowan County, Mr. Shoaf was born on December 14, 1883.
Mr. Shoaf, who attended Mooresville High School, was in business in Richmond, Va., before locating in Washington, D. C. , where for 40 years he was a wholesale lumber merchant.
He retired in 1952 and returned to Mooresville to make his home.
Mr. Shoaf was a life member of the Almas Shrine Temple in Washington, D. C., having joined the Shrine in 1926.
Surviving are one cousin, Miss Mary Shoaf, formerly of Mooresville, now a resident of the Presbyterian Home in High Point; and one nephew Edwin Shoaf of Huntersville.
Funeral services for Mr. Shoaf were conducted at 4 p. m. Monday in the E. C. Cavin Memorial Chapel of the Cavin Funeral Home in Mooresville, with the Rev. S. Edwin Lewis, the Rev. Vance Polley and the Rev. John William officiating. Burial was in the Back Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery at Mount Ulla.
Obituary for Joe Shoaf:From the Mooresville, NC paper
JOE SHOAF, 100, DIES; FUNERAL MONDAY AT 2
A former Mooresville resident - Joseph Turner Shoaf, 100, a resident at Hawthorne Nursing Center in Charlotte--died at the home Saturday.
A native of Rowan County, Mr. Shoaf was born on December 14, 1883.
Mr. Shoaf, who attended Mooresville High School, was in business in Richmond, Va., before locating in Washington, D. C. , where for 40 years he was a wholesale lumber merchant.
He retired in 1952 and returned to Mooresville to make his home.
Mr. Shoaf was a life member of the Almas Shrine Temple in Washington, D. C., having joined the Shrine in 1926.
Surviving are one cousin, Miss Mary Shoaf, formerly of Mooresville, now a resident of the Presbyterian Home in High Point; and one nephew Edwin Shoaf of Huntersville.
Funeral services for Mr. Shoaf were conducted at 4 p. m. Monday in the E. C. Cavin Memorial Chapel of the Cavin Funeral Home in Mooresville, with the Rev. S. Edwin Lewis, the Rev. Vance Polley and the Rev. John William officiating. Burial was in the Back Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery at Mount Ulla.
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