Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameThelma Louise Eagle 
Birth10 Jun 1926, Rowan County, NC
Death14 Jan 2008, Concord, Cabarrus County, NC
Burial18 Jan 2008, Bethpage Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Kannapolis, Cabarrus County, NC
FatherCarpenter L. Eagle (1904-1989)
MotherJoycie Luetitia Snider (1904-1995)
Spouses
Birth28 Aug 1925, Rowan County, NC
Death23 Feb 2010, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC
Burial27 Feb 2010, Bethpage Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Kannapolis, Cabarrus County, NC
FatherEdmond Ray Silliman
MotherMary A. Earnhardt
Marriage7 Feb 1947
ChildrenJoyce Marie (1949-)
Janice Louise (1954-)
Notes for Thelma Louise Eagle
Thelma Eagle Silliman
CONCORD - Thelma Eagle Silliman, 81, formerly of 120 Greenview Drive, Kannapolis, and for the last four years The Gardens of Taylor Glen, Concord, died Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, at CMC-NorthEast. The funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Bethpage Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis, with the Rev. Darryl Baker, Dr. Steve Ayers and Dr. Charles Dorman officiating. Interment will be at Bethpage Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Friday in the fellowship hall of the church.
Mrs. Silliman was born June 10, 1926, in Rowan County, the daughter of the late Carpenter L. Eagle and the late Joycie Snider Eagle. In earlier years, she worked for First National Bank, Salisbury, and later with Farmers & Merchants Bank, Granite Quarry, and then with Cabarrus County Schools, where she served as secretary/bookeeper at Central Cabarrus High School for 10 years. She assisted with various federal programs. She attended Salisbury Business School, and was a member of the Extension Homemakers Clubs in Cabarrus and Richmond counties over a period of 25 years. She was formerly active with the Junior Women's Club in Granite Quarry. A resident of Kannapolis for many years, she had lived in Granite Quarry, Rockingham, Concord and Salisbury at various times in her life. She participated with the Women of the Church circles through the years at Bethpage Presbyterian Church and at First Presbyterian Church in Rockingham. When she lived in Rockingham, she taught in the kindergarten Sunday school class at her church.
Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Edmond Ray Silliman Jr.; daughters, Joyce M. Silliman Keistler and husband, Roland D. Keistler Jr., of Brentwood, Tenn., and Janice L. Silliman Spears and husband, Michael Spears, of Apex; brothers, Bill W. Eagle and Glenn F. Eagle, both of Salisbury, and C.L. Eagle Jr. of Spencer; sister, Nancy Eagle Watson of Flat Rock; grandchildren, Christina Keistler Sartell and husband, Brad Sartell, Emily Keistler, Katherine (Katie) Spears and Michael Alan Spears.
Memorials may be made to Bethpage Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis, NC.
Independent Tribune, 16 Jan 2008
CONCORD - Thelma Eagle Silliman, 81, formerly of 120 Greenview Drive, Kannapolis, and for the last four years The Gardens of Taylor Glen, Concord, died Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, at CMC-NorthEast. The funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Bethpage Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis, with the Rev. Darryl Baker, Dr. Steve Ayers and Dr. Charles Dorman officiating. Interment will be at Bethpage Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Friday in the fellowship hall of the church.
Mrs. Silliman was born June 10, 1926, in Rowan County, the daughter of the late Carpenter L. Eagle and the late Joycie Snider Eagle. In earlier years, she worked for First National Bank, Salisbury, and later with Farmers & Merchants Bank, Granite Quarry, and then with Cabarrus County Schools, where she served as secretary/bookeeper at Central Cabarrus High School for 10 years. She assisted with various federal programs. She attended Salisbury Business School, and was a member of the Extension Homemakers Clubs in Cabarrus and Richmond counties over a period of 25 years. She was formerly active with the Junior Women's Club in Granite Quarry. A resident of Kannapolis for many years, she had lived in Granite Quarry, Rockingham, Concord and Salisbury at various times in her life. She participated with the Women of the Church circles through the years at Bethpage Presbyterian Church and at First Presbyterian Church in Rockingham. When she lived in Rockingham, she taught in the kindergarten Sunday school class at her church.
Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Edmond Ray Silliman Jr.; daughters, Joyce M. Silliman Keistler and husband, Roland D. Keistler Jr., of Brentwood, Tenn., and Janice L. Silliman Spears and husband, Michael Spears, of Apex; brothers, Bill W. Eagle and Glenn F. Eagle, both of Salisbury, and C.L. Eagle Jr. of Spencer; sister, Nancy Eagle Watson of Flat Rock; grandchildren, Christina Keistler Sartell and husband, Brad Sartell, Emily Keistler, Katherine (Katie) Spears and Michael Alan Spears.
Memorials may be made to Bethpage Presbyterian Church, Kannapolis, NC.
Independent Tribune, 16 Jan 2008