Michael Grant Leggett

Michael Grant Leggett July 4, 1945 – September 18, 2021 Michael Grant Leggett, 76 of Elm City passed away Saturday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Joyner’s Funeral Home, Wilson. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wilson. Rev. Brian Tippet will officiate. The family will receive friends Wednesday afternoon from 1 – 1:45 p.m. at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson. Mike began working for Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, when it was owned by the Holderness family in Tarboro and continued as it was bought by Sprint, Embarq and Century Link. He retired in 2007 after forty-two years with the phone companies. Mike loved canoeing and kayaking and being outdoors. For several years he was a member of the Wilson R.C. Modelers flying club and a group of friends sailing remote control sailboats at Lake Wilson. Mike enjoyed building his own airplanes, including one modeled after Superman, which was used to drop candy for kids on family days at the flying field. Later when Macular Degeneration took away most of his eyesight, he loved working in his workshop building wind spinners and other items just for fun. Mike was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and brother. Mike is survived by his loving wife of fifty-seven years, Julia “Judy” Leggett; sons, Michael Grant Leggett, Jr., and wife, Colleen, and Kevin Scott Leggett and wife, Kristi; grandchildren, Clay Henry Leggett, Christopher Ryan Leggett, Jesse Matthew Leggett, and Catherine Shay Leggett; sister, Peggy L. Harrell and husband, Wayne, and his brother, Walter Leggett and wife, Donna. He was preceded in death by his grandchild, Joshua Cameron Leggett; parents, Herman and Katie Marie Leggett, and his brother, William “Billy” Leggett. Flowers are welcome or please consider memorials to American Cancer, 930 Wellness Drive, Greenville, North Carolina 27834. Condolences directed to Joyner’s Funeral Home and Crematory at www.joyners.net.