Dustin S. Pegram

HICKORY - Dustin Stepshawn Pegram, 21, slipped away into eternal rest on Friday, May 12, 2006, at Gordon Hospice House in Statesville following an extended illness. He was born March 6, 1985, in Catawba County. He resided at Howell House RHA in Charlotte. Dustin attended Ridgeview Day Care Center and High Hope of Hickory, and Conover School for the handicapped in Conover. Dustin was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Hubert and Bertha Pegram; paternal great-grandparents, Calvin and Geneva Johnson; and a loving maternal great-grandmother, Mae-Bell Jones Davis Browner. Loving memories will always remain in the hearts of his surviving family members, his loving mother, Wendy Sabrina Davis Pegram of Statesville; father and stepmother, Darrell and Irene Pegram of Claremont; a brother, Darwin Pegram of Statesville; two sisters, Nykeba and Raushannah Pegram of Mooresville; a stepsister, Kirsten Ussery of Detroit, Mich.; two godsisters, Bonika Robinson of Decatur, Ga., and Lacoya Rivera of Charlotte; a maternal grandmother, Annette Norton of Statesville; two nieces; five nephews; a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives and special friends, Keith Keeton, Annette Boone, Vera Flowers, Synette Raye and Karen Tomlin of Statesville, Sylvia Ramseur of Hickory and Cynthia Robinson of Charlotte. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 21, 2006, at Bible Way Church No. 1, 326 E. Bingham St., Statesville. The assistant minister, Georgia Daniels, will eulogize and Elder Barron Carr will officiate. Interment will follow in Iredell Memorial Gardens, Statesville. Visitation and moments of sharing will be 30 minutes prior to the service, from 2:30 to 3 p.m., at the church. The family will assemble for services at 507-5 Russell St. Services of comfort are entrusted to the care of Davis and Mangum Mortuary, 611 S. Green St., Statesville. Condolences can be e-mailed to davismfh@yahoo.com. Memorials may be made to Gordon Hospice House of Statesville and Howell Center RHA of Charlotte. Obituary information courtesy of Allen Mitchell Funeral Home.