08/10/17 — WILLIAM "BILL" OSCAR HOOKS JR.

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WILLIAM "BILL" OSCAR HOOKS JR.

WILLIAM 'BILL' OSCAR HOOKS JR.

June 20, 1935-Aug. 8, 2017

William "Bill" Oscar Hooks Jr., 82, went to be with his Lord and Savior Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, at noon from the chapel of Shackleford-Howell Funeral Home in Fremont.

The family will receive friends Saturday beginning at 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Darryl Floars, Steve Ivey, Anthony Floars, Johnny Floars and James Chestnut.

Interment will follow at Elmwood Cemetery in Fremont.

Mr. Hooks was born in Fremont, N.C., June 20, 1935, to the late William Oscar Hooks Sr. and Edith Matthews Hooks.

He was a member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and attended The First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro.

He is survived by his loving wife, Cecile Floars Hooks of 59 years, and two daughters, Elizabeth "Beth" Hooks McHaffie and husband, Larry, of Florida and Edith Frances "Fran" Hooks Strader and husband, Charles, of Wilson.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Hooks was preceded in death by two sisters, Judy Hooks Dorsey and Susan Hooks Aycock.

The family is in the care of Shackleford-Howell Funeral Home in Fremont.

(Pd)

Published in Obituaries on August 10, 2017 8:05 AM