Beatrice Sheffield Stutts, 85, of Eagle Springs, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, in Pinehurst.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at Browns Chapel Christian Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. Michael Parenti, the Rev. Gary Waisner and the Rev. James Brewer officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Phillips Funeral Home, Star.
Mrs. Stutts was born in Moore County to Albert and Effie Morgan Sheffield. In her lifetime, she was a homemaker, a cook in a nursing home, poultry grower, poultry processor and secretary. She sat with friends in the nursing home and hospital, and loved designing floral arrangements. She was a Sunday school teacher and a member of the Community Helping Hands Circle.
She was the best mother, grandmother and friend in the world and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Stutts; and brothers and sisters, Oscar Sheffield, Herbert Sheffield, Donnie Sheffield, Mae Moore, Ocie Williams and Bertha Williams Newman.
She is survived by her daughter, Delores Stutts Thomas, of Eagle Springs; and grandchildren, Carl Thomas and Dean Thomas, of Eagle Springs.
Online condolences
may be made at www.phillipsfh.com.