Mrs. Geneva Campbell Current, 89, of 2412 Belle Terre Rd. Statesville, died Saturday, October 9th at her home. Born in Iredell County on May 4, 1921, she was the last surviving child of the late Avery Cornelius Campbell and the late Jeannie Lovine Huffman Campbell. Geneva retired from Beauty Maid Mills after 35 years of service. She played four years of varsity basketball at Sharon High School and was a member of Front Street Baptist Church for over 55 years.
On July 26, 1941, she married the late Robert Myers Current who preceded her in death on April 28, 1989. In addition to her husband and her parents, she was preceded in death by eight brothers: Albert S. Campbell and wife, Annie, Espy E. Campbell and wife, Jessie, Roosevelt Campbell and wife, Nina, Roy Campbell and wife, Suma, James Campbell and wife, Clara, Charlie Campbell and wife, Estelle, Roscoe Campbell and wife, Hazel, Kenneth Campbell and wife, Dorothy and one sister, Eva Nell C. Miller and husband Hubert E. Miller.
She leaves behind to cherish her memory, one daughter, Patricia C. (Patt) Teal, one grand daughter, Dana T. Jones, one great grand daughter, Brittany Anne Isenhour and one great grandson, Rashon Anthony Jones. She is also survived by a number of nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
Services celebrating Geneva's life will be conducted at 2:00 Tuesday at Front St. Baptist Church with Rev. Tim Stutts and Rev. Marvin Boyer officiating. She will lie in state at the church for thirty minutes prior to the service and burial will follow at Iredel Memorial Gardens. The family will assemble at the residence of the deceased and will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. this evening (Monday) at Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home.
Condolences may be sent on line to the family to www.bunchjohnsonfuneralhome.com. Memorials may be given to Front St. Baptist Church 1403 W. Front St. Statesville, N.C. 28677 or to the Gordon Hospice House C/O Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County, Inc. 2347 Simonton Rd. Statesville, N.C. 28625. Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
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