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Jewell Higgins Gurley, age 88

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Jewell Higgins Gurley, age 88 Bostic, NC passed away Saturday, August  9, 2014.

She was born April 27, 1926 in Bostic and was a daughter of the late Albert Dennis and Lillian Wells Harrill.  Jewell was a member of First Baptist Church of Bostic, and worked as a Clerk in the Bostic Post Office in 1970.  She was a 1972 graduate of Isothermal Community College and worked as a Nurse’s Assistant.  Jewell was the first secretary of East Rutherford High School when it opened in 1962.  She was a volunteer and charter member of the Pink Ladies Organization at Rutherford Hospital where she served for 10 years, served with the American Cancer Society for 14 years and was a cancer survivor herself.  She was also worked for six years as a volunteer for Hospice Of Rutherford County.

She was first married to Max D. Higgins who passed away in 1968 and later to Charles Gurley who passed away in 2006.Survivors include her sons, Ronald Higgins and wife Martha Hill Higgins of Ellenboro, Russell Max Higgins and wife Reita Murray Higgins of Bostic, a step-daughter, Karen Baucoum and her daughter, Nikki, grandchildren, Sonya Higgins Tate and husband Norris, Brian Russell Higgins, Melanie Higgins Matheny and husband Jason, Ronald Max Higgins and wife Jennifer, great-grandchildren, Megan Matheny, Tyler Matheny, Maggie Gowan, Katelynn Gowan and Lila Page Higgins.

Graveside services will be private for the immediate family in the First Baptist Church Cemetery in Bostic.  Memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.  

The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

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