Class of 1917
Classical Course
Graduation Essay: “Government: Aid for Rural Folk”

Birth: 1 Nov 1897, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 13 Mar 1981, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Parents:
John Wiley Cress (1863-1944)
Laura Elizabeth Ritchie Cress (1862-1933)

Siblings:
Jay Lewis Cress (1896-1990)
Mary Lillie Cress Walker (1900-1937)

Spouse: Houck Adam Richards (1898-1975)
Marriage: 22 Oct 1925, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children:
Helen Lucile Richards Bailey (1920-2006)
Lola Maude Richards Kent (1922-2006)
John Franklin Richards, Sr. (1926-2001)
Robert Houck Richards (1933-2018)

Burial: St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #91327027.

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Johnson City Chronicle (Johnson City, TN), 25 Oct 1925, p. 9.

Richards-Cress

A marriage of interest throughout this section in that of Miss Wannie Cress to Mr. Howck Richards, which was solemnized at the home of the bride in Concord, N. C., on Thursday evening at half past seven o’clock. Rev. Miller, pastor of St. Joh’s Lutheran Church, officiating.

The bride is the charming and accomplished daughter of Mr. and [Mrs.] John Cress of Concord. Mrs. Richards will be remembered here as having visited Mrs. Roy Barkley a number of times, and has many friends who will welcome her to Elizabethton. She was educated at Mont Amoena Seminary at Mt. Pleasant, N. C., and was the past two years a very popular teacher in the Winston-Salem schools.

Mr. Richards is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Richards, and a promising young business man of Elizabethton.

Mr. and Mrs Richards will be at home to their many friends in Elizabethton after October 26.

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Kannapolis Daily Independent (Kannapolis, NC), 17 Apr 1969, p. 1.

County Leases Landfill Tract
By Marvin Eury
Independent Staff Writer

Cabarrus County Commissioners have leased a 150-acre tract of land on Irish Potato Rd. in Township 5 for use as a county-operated landfill for 10 years.

The land, easily accessible to Kannapolis residents, is almost exactly midway between Kannapolis, Concord and Mt. Pleasant. A nearby sign notes that mileage to each is not more than seven miles. Rimertown is two miles from the site.

The land was leased from Mrs. Wannie Cress Richards and husband, H. A. Richards for 10 years and “thereafter…from month to month.

Cost of the lease is $200 per month and the county will impose no taxes on the land during the tenure of the lease.

Additionally, the owners of the land have the right to all standing timber for their own benefit.

The county has authority, under terms of the lease, to erect any buildings needed in the landfill operation and to make such other improvements as they deem necessary, the buildings and improvements to revert to the county at termination of the lease.

There are no nearby houses and there has been no complaints although the lease plainly specifies the intended use of the land…

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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), 14 Mar 1981, p. 3.

CONCORD – Mrs. Wannie Cress Richards, 83, died Friday. Funeral is 3 p.m. Sunday at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

Survivors are sons, John Richards, Bob Richards; daughters, Mrs. Helen Bailey of Norristown, Tenn., Mrs. Lola Kent of Lawton, Okla.; brother, Jay Cress. Gordon-Penniger of Mount Pleasant is in charge.