Joe Delanoe Scales

EDEN - Minister Joe Delanoe Scales, son of the late Sam L. and Mary B. Scales, was born in Eden, N.C. of Rockingham County on April 26, 1945. He quietly departed life on Dec. 13, 2007 at Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro, N.C.
He was preceded in death by three sisters and one brother. He leaves to cherish his memory, wife, Linda Scales of 30 years, sons and daughter, John Lamont Fountain, James B. Fountain, Jr., Charles Ray Fountain and wife Yolanda of Fayetteville, Carolyn L. Barnett and husband Michael of Reidsville.
He also leaves to mourn five sisters, Joan Moton, Yvonne Wilson, Erma Galloway, Mary Millner and husband Pete Gwenerere Lanza and husband Gus, all of Eden, and three brothers, Irving Scales and wife Gloria, Oneal Scales and wife Ophelia, Sherman and wife Julia, all of Eden, and sister-in-law, Henrietta Scales of Wilmington, Delaware; 17 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews; mother-in-law, Lillie Hayes of Reidsville; sisters-in-law, Anna Wilson of Reidsville, Valerie Hayes of Greensboro and Elsie Hayes of Eden; brother-in-law, David Hayes of Eden.
He received his education at Douglass High School in Eden, N.C. He attended Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City where he earned his Bachelor Degree in Science Education. He went into the Army shortly after in July 1968 and was honorably departed in July 1971. He then attended the University of Virginia in Blacksburg, Va. where he received graduate education courses. He taught in Elementary School in Collinsville, Va. in 1972 for 14 years, John Redd Smith, and was later employed by Rockingham County Public School in 1983 shortly after he attended A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C. where he received his Master's Degree in Education Administration in 1985. In December of 2000 he received the Certificate of Merit at the Shaw University Divinity School.
He was baptized at Chapel Hill Progressive Primitive Baptist Church and later was a member and Associate Minister at McCoy Baptist Church in 1982 to 2007 as of August 1, 2007 he resigned from McCoy Baptist and returned back to Chapel Hill Progressive Primitive Baptist Church.
Funeral will be Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, Eden, N.C. Burial will follow at Eden Garden Cemetery.
Galloway's Funeral Service of Eden is in charge of funeral arrangements.