Elaine Jolley Hoppes

Elaine Jolley Hoppes, age 79 of Ellenboro, died Thursday, April 25, 2024, at Hospice House in Forest City.  Elaine was born on January 2, 1945, in Rutherford County and was a daughter of the late Wilburn “Wid” Jolley and Opal Eugenia Brooks Jolley. 

Elaine worked in textiles most of her life having worked at Spindale Mills which later became New Cherokee.  She was a charter member of the Ellenboro Community Church as well as a United States Air Force veteran.  Elaine was a strong and confident woman that believed in hard work. 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by husbands, Dennis Fisher, and Clarence Moore, and her brothers, Donald Ray Jolley, Charles Douglas Jolley, and Dale Wilburn Jolley, and a grandson, Matthew Fisher.  

Survivors include her husband, Ray Hoppes, her sons, Michael Fisher and wife Beverly of Bostic, Kyle Fisher and wife Pennie of Ellenboro, her daughter, Belinda Evans and Husband Danny of Bostic, and her sister, Shirley Medford of Ellenboro.  She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren, Heather Cobb (Jon Jon), Joshua Fisher (Geena), Courtney Evans (Johnny), Brandon Fisher (Tara), Brittany Smalley (Brad), Kylie Mitchell (Mike), Samuel Evans, and Sydney Grace Evans.  There are also eleven great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at 4 o’clock on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at Corinth Baptist Church with the Reverend Ronnie Robbins and Reverend Neil Murray officiating.  Interment will follow in the church cemetery with Military Honors accorded by the Rutherford County Honor Guard.  The family will receive friends from 3 until 4 o’clock prior to the service in the Sanctuary.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of The Carolina Foothills, Post Office Box 336, Forest City, North Carolina 28043.

The Padgett and King Mortuary & Crematory is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com

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