Lois Ollis Ledford, age 93 of Ellenboro, died Saturday, October 5, 2024, at Hospice House in Forest City.  Lois was born on July 10, 1931, in Buncombe County, North Carolina and was a daughter of the late John Leonard Ollis and Ella Mae Warren Ollis. 

Lois was a member of Mountain View Baptist Church in Bostic, and she worked for many years at Stonecutter Mills in the inspection department where she retired.  She loved her God, as well as her family, and she was a devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother.  Working in her flowers and spending time with her family brought her the greatest joy. 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Jeremiah “Bill” Ledford, her six brothers, Robert, Millard, Clyde, Ralph, Albert, and Homer, her sisters, Mae Bell, Viola, Ida, and Ada, and her great-grandson, Cody Beaty.  Lois was the last of her eleven siblings.  

She is survived by her four children, Sandra Hughes (Ford) of Valdese, Rhonda Hooper of Ellenboro, Linda Yarbrough (Dale) of Ellenboro, and Bobby Ledford (Shelby) of Morganton. There are also 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 2 o’clock on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at the Mountain View Baptist Church in Bostic with the Reverend Clayton Hartsell and the Reverend Wayne Toney officiating.  Interment will follow in the church cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening at Padgett and King.

Memorials may be made to Mt. View Baptist Church, 3590 Bostic Sunshine Highway, Bostic, North Carolina 28018.

The family is at the home of her daughter, Linda and Dale Yarbrough, Pinehurst Road, Ellenboro.

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