Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameLoretta Maxine Whitley
Birth15 Aug 1932, Stanly County, NC
Death19 Sep 2018, Stanly Manor, Albemarle, Stanly County, NC
Burial23 Sep 2018, Running Creek PBC Cemetery, Stanly County, NC
FatherLeonard Lloyd Whitley (1913-1987)
MotherLeola Sasser (1914-1987)
Spouses
Birth23 Oct 1931
Death31 Dec 1974
BurialRunning Creek PBC Cemetery, Stanly County, NC
FatherVirgil Jerome Lambert (1903-1975)
MotherCora Belle Whitley (1903-1988)
ChildrenVirgil Jerome “Butch” (1957-)
Birth22 Oct 1914, Clendenin, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Death12 Jun 1996, Concord, Cabarrus County, NC
BurialRunning Creek PBC Cemetery, Stanly County, NC
Notes for Loretta Maxine Whitley
Loretta Whitley Lambert Samples

Loretta Maxine Whitley Lambert Samples, 86, of Locust, NC, passed away Wednesday September 19, 2018 at Stanly Manor. Her funeral service will be 4 PM Sunday, September 23, 2018 in the Stanly Funeral & Cremation Care Chapel of Albemarle with Rev. Wally Gilmer and Rev. Jeremy Hyde officiating. Burial will follow in the Running Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3 PM until 4 PM prior to the service.

Loretta was born August 15, 1932 in Stanly County, NC and was the daughter of the late Leonard Lloyd Whitley and Leola Sasser Whitley. She attended Stanly Community College receiving her CNA, which she used to serve many families. Loretta was a retired employee of Wiscassett Mill Company. She was a member of Freedom Baptist Church, Locust, NC.

Mrs. Samples was preceded in death by her first husband Virgil Lambert, Jr. and second husband Hubert Samples. She is survived by a son Virgil Lambert, III. (Kelly Crayton Lambert) of Locust, NC; brother Bruce Whitley of Cramerton, NC; sister Anita Mauney of Lowell, NC; two granddaughters Candice Mullins (Jeremy) of Ft. Belvoir, VA, Deidre Blevins (Scott) of Midland, NC and a grandson Joshua Gardner (Matthew Cox) of Greenville, NC and four great-grandchildren Boston Mullins, Canaan Mulllins, Ethan Mullins and Brady Blevins. Loretta was also preceded in death by a sister Lavonne Averill and a brother Darrell Whitley.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Stanly and the Uwharrie.

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