Clarence Baxter Jolley

Clarence Baxter Jolley, age 74 of Cliffside, went home to be with the Lord Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Atrium Health Cleveland in Shelby, NC. He was born November 27, 1948 in Cleveland County, NC to the late George Oren Jolley and the late Margaret Hamrick Jolley. Baxter was a U.S. Army veteran and a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Mooresboro, NC where he had served as a deacon, a trustee, as a Sunday school director and on the van committee. He had worked at Hoechst Fiber in Shelby, NC for five years, Cone Mills weave plant in Cliffside, NC for more than twenty five years and lastly for the town of Boiling Springs, NC for five years. Baxter will be remembered by his family as a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed dearly.

Baxter is survived by his wife Louise Jones Jolley, his daughters Anne Jolley Espinoza and Amy Jolley Bracebridge and her husband Charlie, his grandchildren; Anthony Edward Jolley, Charles Marcus Jolley, Ryan Christopher Espinoza, Vivian Nicole Bracebridge, Karla Marie Bracebridge and Tyler Chase Bracebridge, one great grandson Landon Boheler.

The family will receive friends Sunday, April 30, 2023 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Mooresboro, NC. The funeral service will follow at 3:00pm at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with Reverend Kevin Hamrick officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery with military honors accorded by the Rutherford County Honor Guard. Eggers Funeral Home of Cliffside, NC is serving the family.