Evelyn Whitlock Green, age 92 of Rutherfordton, NC, died Sunday, December 29, 2024, at Hospice House in Forest City.  She was born on April 23, 1932, in Rutherford County and was a daughter of the late Lowrance and Eva Marie Bradley Whitlock. 

Evelyn was a graduate of Cool Springs High School and had worked as both a beautician and a CNA as well as a seamstress at Doncaster-Tanner Companies.  She was also a member of the Union Mills Presbyterian Church.

Evelyn was raised in a large family and was preceded in death by her brothers, Tommy Whitlock, Max Whitlock, Howard Whitlock, Garland Whitlock, and Ted Whitlock, a sister, Grace Whitlock Pennington, and a granddaughter, Dallas Marie Brooks. 

Survivors include her son, Keith Ward and wife Susan of Union Mills, her daughters, June Love of Spindale, and Lynn Watkins and husband Ron of Rutherfordton, her brother, Vernon Whitlock of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  There are also three grandchildren, Maranda Love Maxey, Melanie Love, and Dustin Brooks, as well as six great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at 12 noon on Thursday, January 2, 2025, at Union Mills Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Jimmy Koone and Reverend Steve Price officiating.  Interment will follow in the church cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 11 until 12 noon prior to the service at the church.

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

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