Elaine Jolley Hoppes, age 79

Elaine Jolley Hoppes, age 79 of Ellenboro, died Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Elaine was born January 2, 1945, in Rutherford County and was a daughter of the late Wilburn "Wid" Jolley and Opal Eugenia Brooks Jolley.

Elaine worked in textiles most of her life having worked at Spindale Mills which later became New Cherokee. She was a charter member of the Ellenboro Community Church as well as a United States Air Force veteran.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by husbands, Dennis Fisher, and Clarence Moore, and her brothers, Donald Ray Jolley, Charles Douglas Jolley, and Dale Wilburn Jolley, and a grandson, Matthew Fisher.

Survivors include her husband, Ray Hoppes, her sons, Michael Fisher and wife Beverly of Bostic, Kyle Fisher and wife Pennie of Ellenboro, her daughter, Belinda Evans and husband Danny of Bostic, and her sister, Shirley Medford of Ellenboro, eight grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at 4pm Saturday, May 4, 2024, at Corinth Baptist Church with Rev. Ronnie Robbins and Rev. Neil Murray officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery with Military Honors accorded by the Rutherford County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends from 3-4pm prior to the service in the Sanctuary.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Carolina Foothills, PO Box l336, Forest City, NC 28043.

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Padgett~King Mortuary and Crematory is serving the family.