Attended as a sub-freshman, 1907-1908

Birth: 8 Apr 1896, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 5 Jan 1983, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Parents:
Washington Whitfield Dry (1860-1902)
Eunice S. Cox (1866-1928)

Children:
Betty Ann Lipe (1929 – 1930)
Ellen Whitfield Lindsey Coward (1943-2001)

Half-Siblings:
Eustice Manardy Dry (1882–1964)
Ann Melissa Dry (1885–1970)
Paul Kindred Dry (1888–1959)
Neva M. Dry (1891–1983)

Siblings:
Ossie Ivey Dry Ritchie (1898–1979)
Laurel “Babe” Whitfield Dry Lindsey (1901-1994)

Spouse: Fred Herrin, Sr. (1892-1929); Marriage: 4 Apr 1912, Cabarrus County, North Car0lina
Spouse: Berry M. Shue (1911-1939)
Spouse: George York Cress (1912-1993); Marriage: 1958, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children:
Fred Hilton Herrin Jr. (1913–1977)
Helen Keller Herrin Moorehead (1915–1997)
PFC Charles Warren Herrin (1920–1945)

Burial: St. James Reformed Church Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #106291907.

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Concord Tribune (Concord, NC), 5 Jan 1983, p. 16.

Mrs. Cress

MT. PLEASANT — Mrs. Myrtle Dry Cress died early today at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital following several years of declining health.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. James United Church of Christ and burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The Rev. J. Everette Neese will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Gordon-Peninger Funeral Home, and will be at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Helen Moorehead, during the remainder of the interim.

They request that memorials be directed to the St. James United Church of Christ building fund.

Mrs. Cress was born in Mt. Pleasant April 8, 1896, daughter of the late Washington Whitfield and Eunice Cox Dry.

She attended Mont Amoena Seminary and served as a licensed practical nurse at Buxton Hospital, Newport News, Va., and Cabarrus Memorial Hospital prior to her retirement.

Survivors include her husband, York Cress; one daughter, Mrs. Moorehead, of Mt. Pleasant; a sister, Mrs. Laurel Lindsey of Concord; a brother, N.M. Dry of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; one grandson and one great-grandson.