Lois Moore Yandle

Lois Moore Yandle, 97, surrounded by family and friends, passed peacefully from our world to be with her Savior, Jesus, on Friday, August 16, 2024, after a short illness. She is now joyfully reunited with her husband, Marcus E. Yandle, Sr.; daughters Vicki Taylor and Marcy Coleman; parents, Joseph and Madeline Moore; and a host of beloved family and friends.

Services to celebrate Lois’s life will be held Friday, August 23, 2024, at Sharon Presbyterian Church, 5201 Sharon Road, Charlotte. Visitation will be at 11:30 AM followed by the funeral service at 1:00 PM. A graveside service will be held at 2:30 at Sharon Memorial Park, 5716 Monroe Road, Charlotte.

Lois was born January 10, 1927, in a house on Charles Avenue in the NoDa area of Charlotte. A graduate of Charlotte Technical High School, Lois married Mark on December 1, 1945, shortly after his discharge from the Navy following World War II. At Mark’s death in 2019, they had just celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary. Their marriage was filled with love, faith, hard work, generosity, hospitality, and the joys of family, friends, church, and community, with some world travel thrown in for good measure.

Lois was a devoted mother and grandmother, beginning with her five children: Sherrie Catledge (Greg), Lisa Britton (Roy), Marcus E. Yandle, Jr. (Kim), all of Charlotte, and her late daughters Vicki Taylor (Barry) of Darlington, SC, and Marcy Coleman (Gary) of Ocean Isle Beach, NC. She was grandmother to eleven: Dayna Hamm (Rich) of Cincinnati, OH; Josh Rogers (Stephanie) of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA; Casey Rogers (Courtney) of Charlotte; Ashley Odvody (Lance) of Durham, NC; Marcus E. Yandle, III, of Charlotte; Hannah Hake (Isaac) of Grove City, PA; Mary Rowland (Brayden) of Lancaster, SC; Matthew Vandevort of Pittsburgh, PA; and Elliot Yandle, Emma Kohut (Elliot), and Ellie Yandle, all of Charlotte.

Three weeks before her passing, Lois met her fifteenth great-grandchild, two-week-old Malcolm Rowland, who followed Annabelle Rogers, Jake Rogers, Will Hamm, Sawyer Rogers, Dylan Rogers, Charlie Hamm; Asher, Brayden, and Jayce Odvody; and Elsa, Felicity, Timothy, Steven, and Elizabeth Hake. Lois was also step-grandmother to Katie Hicks (William) and Brian Taylor and step-great-grandmother to Lane Whitlow and Blaze Hicks.

Always a devoted wife and mother, Lois was also involved in church and community activities. She was secretary of the Berryhill PTA, president of her Sunday School class at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, volunteer chaplain’s aid at Presbyterian Hospital, and was one of the initial founding supporters of Crisis Assistance Ministries.

When her empty nest years began, she dove headlong into her love of family history and genealogy, adding genealogist, historian, and author to her list of accomplishments. She was a 40-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as her chapter’s Vice-Regent and receiving its Community Service Award. Along with a cousin, she co-authored The Moore Families of Anson And Union Counties North Carolina. An article in the Charlotte Observer piqued her interest in the mill community of North Charlotte, particularly Highland Mill #3 (now the home of Heist Brewery), where she and many of her family worked during the 1930’s and 1940’s. Because she “didn’t want those hardworking people to be forgotten,” Lois wrote The Spirit of a Proud People.

She became an avid supporter of the Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, was involved with the establishment of the Levine Museum of the New South, and was a charter member of the Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society. She established a fund at the North Carolina State Archives to help begin the digitization of state documents, a fund at the Carolina Room to acquire documents of local history, and through her work in the DAR became a loyal supporter of The Crossnore School for Children in Avery County, including the establishment of the Yandle Summer Fun Fund. This work and activities earned her The Order of 1775 Award from the Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, the Treasuring North Carolina Award from the Society of North Carolina Archivists, and ultimately, The Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award from Governor Jim Martin in 1992.

Lois accomplished all of this despite serious back pain and numerous surgeries throughout her adulthood. In recent years she mourned spending so much time resting on her couch on a heating pad. We assured her that she had earned her rest!

The family is deeply grateful to all of Lois’s caregivers, especially Teresa, Aku, Gladys, Sabina, and Zi, and the staff of The Sharon, where she and Mark lived for over 20 years, Those who wish to make a donation in Lois’s memory, please consider Steele Creek Presbyterian Church at Pleasant Hill, 15000 York Road, Charlotte, 28278; either The Residents’ or The Employees Assistance Funds at The Sharon, 5100 Sharon Road, Charlotte 28210; The Crossnore School, P.O. Box 249, Crossnore, NC 28616;0 or any of the above-mentioned historical associations.

McEwen Funeral Services at Sharon Memorial Park is assisting the family, and condolences may be offered at their website through www.dignitymemorial.com.

For those unable to be with us for her services, we invite you to watch Lois Yandle funeral service livestream at: https://www.youtube.com/@sharonpresbyterianchurch5525/streams