Anna Louise Bradshaw

She was born December 10, 1923 to the late Jesse Elliott and Dola Elliot of Catawba County.

Anna was a people person and started her own produce business in 1963, opening stands across the county. She also loved song and dance, and once won a dance contest for the Charleston. While at the Valley Nursing Center, she also served others with her wonderful singing voice. She never grew tired of Elvis and one of her favorite tunes was Lay Me Down by Levi Jones. Never one to sit still, she enjoyed traveling, and was even issued a backseat driving license at one point in her life! One of her other many passions were sweet things and snuff. While at the Valley Nursing Center her family would bring her chocolate powder for her snuff. Anna certainly enjoyed life, most of all she loved her family and will be greatly missed.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Joe Bradshaw; sons, Marvin Watts and Rickey Bradshaw; daughter, Carolyn Fox; and numerous brothers and sisters.

Survivors include her sons, Walter Watts and wife, Joycelyn of Keystone Heights, FL, John Watts and wife, Connie, of Denver, NC, Kimberly Lott, and Allen Watts of Fellsmere, FL; daughters, Judy Hearn and husband, Ronald, of Charlotte, Ann Bringuier and husband, Mundy, of Charlotte, Sandra Hoke of Hickory, NC, Donna Lackey and husband, Dennis, of Taylorsville, and Joann Adams and husband, John, of Bushnell, FL; sister, Lucille Deal of Claremont; 25 grandchildren; 55 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 1, 2014, in the Chapel of Willis-Reynolds Funeral Home & Crematory in Newton, NC.

Burial will follow in the Sardis Lutheran Church cemetery.

The family will receive friends prior to the service from 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorials be made to Catawba Regional Hospice at 3975 Robinson Road, Newton, North Carolina, 28658.