She will be remembered fondly

Geraldine Dunlap STATESVILLE Mrs. Geraldine Eleanor Morris Dunlap, 79, of 637 Sloans Mill Rd. Olin, died Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Born in Wetzel County, W.Va. on Nov. 28, 1931, she was a daughter of the late Andrew P. Morris and Delia Huggins Morris. She was a retired Registered Nurse having retired from Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville. She graduated from the Holzer Medical Center School Of Nursing at Gallipolis, Ohio and graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio with a B.S. in Nursing. She was a member of Broad Street Church Of Christ and was a past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of V.F.W. Post # 2031 of Statesville and also served a year as the Post Chaplin. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. Robert L. Dunlap; brothers Carl and Robert Morris; and a sister, Edna Pastorious. Survivors include two daughters, Patricia Belch and her husband, Charles of Winston-Salem and Diane Brown and her husband, David of Mooresville. Also surviving are a brother, Elwood Morris and his wife, Sharon, and four sisters, Mrs. Waleah Chadima, Mrs. Wanda Stropki, Ms. Rosalie Biery and Sandra Morris along with five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 23, at Iredell Memorial Gardens Mausoleum with Mr. Steve Short officiating. She will lie in state at the mausoleum for thirty minutes prior to the service while the family greets friends. Condolences may be sent on line to the family to www.bunchjohnsonfuneralhome.com. Memorials may be given to Broad St. Church Of Christ 433 E. Broad St. Statesville, NC 28677. Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements. The family wishes to thank her best friend, Beulah Vanscoy of Point Pleasant, W.Va. and her neighbors and friends, Joe and Irene York for all of their love and, also wishes to express their sincere gratitude to the staff of Palliative Care (Ardmore Tower) at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for their excellent care.