Class of 1924
Business Course 1925

Birth: 6 Jan 1906, Rowan County, North Carolina
Death: 3 Aug 1999, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Parents:
Charles Van Buren McCombs (1872-1960)
Mary Catherine Claydora Brown McCombs (1873-1935)

 

 

 

 

Siblings
May Elizabeth McCombs Goodman (1892–1967)
John William McCombs (1893–1972)
Floyd Brown McCombs (1895–1965)
Ina Clementine McCombs Wagner (1898–1977)
Alice Hope McCombs Christy (1900–1985)
Versie Lee McCombs Wagner (1901–1998)
Pearl Aleene McCombs (1904–1927)
Charlie Clifford McCombs (1907–1917)
Marvin Fred McCombs (1909–1992)
Robert Earl McCombs (1911–1984)
Grady Eugene McCombs (1915–1995)
Harold Burdette McCombs (1916–1973)

Burial: Carolina Memorial Park, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, # 64266279.

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Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), August 05, 1999

KANNAPOLIS — The funeral will be Friday for Nora McCombs, 93, Kannapolis, who died Tuesday (Aug. 3, 1999) at NorthEast Medical Center, Concord.

Born Jan. 6, 1906, in Rowan County, Miss McCombs was a daughter of the late Charles V. and Mary Brown McCombs. She was a member of Kimball Lutheran Church.

She was a 1923 graduate of Kannapolis High School; a 1924 graduate of Mount Amoena Seminary,Mount Pleasant, where she was a business major; a 1929 graduate of New Charlotte Sanatorium, Charlotte, where she studied nursing; and a 1934 graduate ofLutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, Baltimore.

She joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1935 and during World War II served in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps. Miss McCombs later served as head nurse at the National Lutheran Home for the Aged in Washington, D.C., and nurse, deaconess and house mother at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa.

She is survived by many nieces and nephews.

Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev.Doug Kearney and the Rev. Hoke Ritchie. Burial, Carolina Memorial Park.

Visitation: 7-8:30 tonight, Whitley’s Funeral Home.

Memorials: Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church, Memorial Fund, 101 Vance St., Kannapolis, N.C. 28081.

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Independent Tribune (Concord, NC), 5 Aug 1999, page 8.

Miss Nora McCombs

CONCORD — Nora McCombs, 93, of Kannapolis, died Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1999, at NorthEast Medical Center.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church, Kannapolis, where she was a member. Rev. Doug Kearney and Rev. Hoke Ritchie will officiate. Burial will be at Carolina Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends at Whitley’s Funeral Home from 7 until 8:30 tonight.

Born Jan. 6, 1906, in Rowan County, N.C., she was a daughter of the late Mary Brown McCombs and the late Charles V. McCombs. She was baptized April 29, 1906, at St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Rockwell. She graduated from Kannapolis High School in 1923. She was a business major graduate in 1924 of Mount Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant. She was a nursing graduate in 1929 at New Charlotte Sanatorium, Charlotte. She was a graduate of deaconess training in 1934 at Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, Baltimore, Md. She was a veteran of World War II U.S. Army Nursing Corps, having served from 1942 to 1948. She served in the Mediterranean Theater, 1943-44. She lived in Baltimore, Md., from 1933-51, where she was head nurse at the National Lutheran Home for the aged in Washington, D.C. She was a nurse, deaconess, and house mother at Gettysburg College from 1936-41. She joined the Army Reserve in 1935.

Survivors include many nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be sent to Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church in care of memorial fund, 101 Vance St., Kannapolis, N.C., 28081.

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Kannapolis Daily Independent (Kannapolis, NC), 37 Feb 1949, 8.