Blonnie Belle Wheeler Hendricks
June 23, 1921 – May1, 2012

Blonnie Belle Wheeler Hendricks, 90, of Fountain passed away Tuesday.  Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Thursday at Joyner’s Funeral Home.  Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.  The Rev. Wayne Ellis, the Rev. Chris Woodard and the Rev. Johnny Hendricks will officiate. 

The family will receive friends 7 – 9 p.m. Wednesday at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway and other times at 7474 Glover Road, Fountain.

Blonnie is survived by her nine daughters, Sue H. Summerlin and husband, John of Fountain, Maggie H. McLaughlin of Columbia, SC, Minnie H. Moncrief of Macclesfield, Callie H. Saunders and husband, Gene of Gainesville, GA, Janice H. Davis of Stantonsburg, Edith H. Edmondson of Fountain, Betsy H. Dail and husband, Morris and Katie H. Moore and husband, Bob all of Wilson and Margaret “Joesy” Harrell and husband, Bill of Fountain; her five sons, Frankie Hendricks of Wilson, Billy Hendricks and wife, Ethel of Stantonsburg, Reese Hendricks and wife, Kay of New Bern, Johnny Hendricks and wife, Mary of Elm City and James Hendricks and wife, Cindy of Fountain; her sister, Betty Gould of Wilson; thirty grandchildren; 46 great grandchildren and 13 great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert C. Hendricks and her son, AC Hendricks, Jr.; three grandchildren, Janie Summerlin Webb, Douglas Saunders and Benji Edmondson; one great grandchild; one great-great grandchild; parents, Joe and Maggie Wheeler; three son-in-laws, Larry Moncrief, Irvin Davis and Bob McLaughlin; two sisters, Katie W. Cortazzio and Janice W. Joyner and four brothers, Lonnie “Jack”, Joe, Jimmy and Wayne Wheeler.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to the Pleasant Hope Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund, 5018 Rosebud Church Road, Elm City, NC  27822.

Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.