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M.P.C.I. Class of 1928
Classical Course
Alma was one of eight female students who transferred to M. P. C. I. after the closure of Mont Amoena in 1927.
Birth: 12 Oct 1909, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 10 Jun 1989, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Occupation: Teacher, Public Schools
Parents:
Thomas Edgar Tucker (1868-1932)
Mary Ann Griffin Barringer Tucker (1872-1952)
Siblings:
Wilma Pauline Tucker Kestler (1900-1977)
Spouse: Henry Lawson Price, Jr. (1909-1983)
Marriage: 14 Oct 1933, York County, South Carolina
Children:
Sarah Ann Price Whitty (1937-2024)
Alma Jean Price Slaughter (1941-2004)
Burial: Carolina Memorial Park, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Source: www.findagrave.com, #107744119.
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Link:
Mont Amoena and M.P.C.I. transcripts.
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The Daily Independent (Kannapolis, NC), 9 Sep 1965, p. 9.
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The Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), 12 Jun 1989, p. 12B.
Alma T. Price
KANNAPOLIS – Alma Tucker Price, 79, of 302 Williams St. No. 2, died at 10 p.m. on June 10, 1989, at her home. She had been in declining health two years and seriously ill six months.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Whitley’s Funeral HOme Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Gene Little and the Rev. Chuck Baker. Burial will be in Carolina Memorial Park, Concord.
The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 tonight.
Memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church Memorial Fund, East First Street, Kannapolis, N.C. 28021.
Born on Oct. 12, 1909, in Cabarrus County, Mrs. Price was a daughter of the late Thomas Edgar and Mary Ann Barringer Tucker. She was a school teacher for over 42 years, 32 of them in the Kannapolis City Schools. She retired in 1973.
She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, the Kannapois Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star 349, Kannapolis Pilot Club, and the National Retired Teachers Association. She also helped organize and charter Memorial United Methodist Church in Kannapolis.
She was a graduate of Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute and Catawba College and attended Lenoir-Rhyne College.
Her husband, Henry Price Jr., died in 1983.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. John (Sarah) Whitty of Morgantown, W. Va., and Mrs. Jean Price Slaughter of Chapel Hill; and four grandchildren.
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