Andrew "Andy" Stocks Jr.

Mr. Andrew "Andy" Stocks, Jr., 68, died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007. The funeral service will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. Entombment will follow in the Ayden Cemetery. Mr. Stocks was a native and lifelong resident of the Ayden community of Pitt County. He was employed by Union Carbide for 17 years and farmed for much of his life. For the past 35 years he owned and operated Andy's Recreation Center and Grill in Ayden. An avid outdoorsman, he loved to hunt and fish. He had attended Black Jack Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church. Mr. Stocks was preceded in death by his parents, Andrew and Louvenia Robinson Stocks, brother, Ronnie Stocks and sisters, Joyce Jones and Effie Jones. Surviving, are his wife, Sandra Mills Stocks; sons, Johnnie Lee Stocks and wife, Lorraine, and Andrew Stocks, III, and wife, Kathy, all of Ayden; grandsons, Tyler Lee Stocks, Chase Edward Stocks, Walker Andrew Stocks and Landon Allyn (Rambo) Stocks; granddaughter, Danielle (Sissy) Ashley Stocks; and brothers, William Stocks of Lizzie, Tommy Ray Stocks of California, Phillip Stanley Stocks of Wendell, and Ledrew Stocks of Winterville. The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.