Dock Creek Cemetery

A funeral service was held Friday, August 4, 2017 at Hamer Creek Baptist Church in Mount Gilead. The Rev. K. Raymond Sipe officiated and interment followed in Hamer Creek Cemetery.Miss Gardner was born June 8, 1915 in Montgomery County to the late Bryant and Bessie Dunn Gardner. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church and was last employed with Shaw Air Force Base.Thelma enjoyed helping others. She was actively involved with the Senior Center in Troy, Hospice of Stanly and Crisis outreach in Mount Gilead. She enjoyed all the activities at Trinity Place. Flowers, butterflies and birds brought great joy to her day.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brothers, Frank, Dock and Clyde Gardner; sisters, Betty Byrd, Verna Mae Deaton and Jeanie Belle Robbins.She is survived by brother, David Gardner (Louise) of Mount Gilead; sisters, Polly Dunn of Burlington, Montie Hoover of Mount Gilead; and numerous nieces and nephews.Memorials may be made to Christ Episcopal Church, 428 Pee Dee Ave., Albemarle, NC 28001 or Hospice of Stanly and the Uwharrie, 960 North First Street, Albemarle, NC 28001 or Trinity Place, P. O. Box 947, Salisbury, NC 28145. ... (Montgomery Herald)

What I saw after I parked the car stunned me.A sign beside the roadway said: "Helping our neighbors; Gravel generously provided by: TransCanada and Columbia Pipeline Group." TransCanada is that "swell" corporation that urged the development of the high-pressure, 36-inch, 1,200-mile long Keystone XL pipeline which, if built, would transport dirty, climate destructive, polluting tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska, where it would hook into existing pipelines heading for Texas for refining (and then export). Columbia Pipeline Group Inc., the company which applied for permits to construct the Mountaineer Xpress Pipeline (MXP) and the Gulf XPress Pipeline (GXP) (expansion projects in the Appalachian Basin), has been acquired by TransCanada.Exploring this further, I learned that their plans include a 30-inch pipeline, the SM80 Loop, through a section of the cemetery as part of much larger oil and gas development for this region. A week later, I saw that construction had begun on both sides of the cemetery but had not yet encroached on the property.Apparently nothing is sacred. In West Virginia, even the dead can't rest in peace.Janet KeatingHuntington... (Huntington Herald Dispatch)