We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of love you have all shown. In the next week, we'll be updating this blog with a link to the memorial service, programs from the services, your stories about Alice and other memories. For now, thanks for all that you have done both for Gramma and our family. Following is Alice's obituary:
Born May 4, 1922, in Moore County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Ella Harrington Doughty and Davis R. Salmon, Sr.
Mrs. Kay was predeceased by the love of her life and husband of 64 years, Leroy F. 'Speed' Kay. They were married in a double wedding ceremony at the Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City, NC, on October 2, 1940, and made a wonderful life and family together thereafter.
Also predeceasing her were her parents, brother, Gilbert Salmon, and sisters, Thelma Townsend and Edna McCartney.
She is survived by brother Davis R. Salmon, Jr. and wife, Janie of Pinehurst, NC, daughters, Pat Kay Key and husband, Jim of Burlington, NC, and Mary Kay Baldauf and husband, Rick of Columbia, SC. Surviving also are grandson Jim Key II and wife Ruth of Durham, NC, and granddaughters, Patti Key of Huntersville, NC, Mary Pat and Beth Baldauf of Columbia, SC, great-grandchildren, Jay and Rachel Key of Durham, and a host of loving nephews and nieces.
Mrs. Kay was a long-time member of Cameron Baptist Church in Cameron, NC, where she and her late husband 'Speed' were honored in 2008 for their love and service through the years. She was a former member of Fairview Heights Baptist Church in Portsmouth, VA. During that time, she was Associational GA Director of Portsmouth Baptist Church in Portsmouth, VA, and she was Associational GA Director of Portsmouth Baptist Association for many years. Her GAs and Cradock High School students were very special to her.
Mrs. Kay retired from Moore Regional Hospital in 1995 after years of loving service, where she touched countless lives in many ways. She loved her job, and she loved the people she worked with even more.
Mrs. Kay had friends and family throughout the United States, and she loved to keep in touch through cards, calls and later through her blog and Facebook page as well. She was known far and wide for her thoughtfulness, her sense of style and her love of all things pink.
Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m on Saturday, July 3, 2010, at Cameron Baptist Church, 593 Carthage Street, Cameron, NC, with the Rev. Dr. Wayne Greene officiating. A viewing will precede the service at noon. Burial will follow in Cameron Community Cemetery. The family will receive friends immediately following in the Fellowship Hall at Cameron Baptist Church.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in the Sanctuary at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3200 Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC.
Memorials may be made to Cameron Baptist Church Building Fund, PO Box 155, Cameron, NC 28326; Harmony Care Hospice, 100 Ashland Park Lane, Suite K, Columbia, SC 29210; or United Way of the Midlands, 1800 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201.
The family is deeply grateful to Dr. Farrell Collins and staff in Pinehurst, NC, Dr. Bradley Word and staff in Columbia, SC, the nursing staff of the 8th Floor Averyt Wing at Palmetto Baptist, the wonderful home care givers with Harmony Care Hospice and all of those involved in her care over the past several years.
Read more: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestate/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=143870243#ixzz0t6NRAq9K
