Carrie C. Haddock

Carrie C. Haddock AYDEN - Mrs. Carrie Coward Haddock, 88, died Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. The funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in the Haddock Family Cemetery. Mrs. Haddock was a Pitt County native and longtime resident of the Clay Root community. She had been married to Odell Haddock for 58 years when he went to be with the Lord. Known to many as Grandma, she was a homemaker and also ran Haddock's Barbeque for many years. At the time of her death she was the oldest member of Pleasant Hill Free Will Baptist Church and the Women's Auxiliary. A Sunday School teacher for many years, she always picked up children to take them on Sundays. She enjoyed visiting and cooking for shut-ins, and working in her yard. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by sisters, Ester McGowan, Claudie May Smith and Louise Boyd; and brothers, Lloyd Coward and Lionell Coward. Surviving are her children, Madeline Haddock, Peter Haddock and wife, Marlene, and Talmadge Haddock and wife, Judy, all of Ayden; sister, Lillian Reel of Clay Root; grandchildren, Tina and Jerry Dixon, of Grimesland, Stacie and Joe Tronto, of Greenville, and Kim and Richie Thorburn, Kellie and Stan Whaley. Alan and Tonya Haddock, and Donnie and Tammy Haddock, all of Ayden; step-grandchildren, Chad and Lisa Faulkner and Jimmy and Felecia Faulkner, all of Greenville, Jeffrey Manning, of Ayden, and Linda Sasser, of Surf City; 17 great grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Maggie Haddock, of Fayetteville, Sybil Buck and Pauline Smith, both of Ayden, and Peggy Taylor, of Grimesland; and brother-in-law, Clyde Haddock, of Virginia. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. today at Wilkerson Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Pleasant Hill Free Will Baptist Church, 8539 N.C. 43 South, Grimesland, NC 27837. Online condolences to www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com.