IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Hazel
Mcwherter
August 12, 1920 – July 15, 2023
Obituary
On July 15, 2023, Hazel Edna McWherter,102, went to her Heavenly Home to join our Lord and former family members. Hazel was born on August 12, 1920, in Macon County, North Carolina.
After graduating from Franklin High School, Hazel worked one year in Highlands, NC. Following this employment, she joined other family members in Detroit, Michigan where many other people from Macon County had moved to work just prior to the beginning of World War II. Hazel found early work as a waitress in a restaurant just across the street from The United States Rubber Company, (us Rubber Co.). A major supervisor from this company eating breakfast in the restaurant noticed how hard a worker Hazel was and suggested she apply for employment at the company. He handed her a card with his name and instructed Hazel to give this card to the Human resources Office. She applied and was hired immediately. Hazel worked there for the next thirty-five years, which included all of World War II.
She has told stories of working with many other women seven days a week. During the war, the company made jeep and truck tires as well as ball bearings for tanks. The girls would write notes to the GIs and enclose them in the ball bearing packaging. It was during this time that her love for baseball began. After work, she and her friends would go across the street to watch baseball games. She saw all the old players including Micky Mantle, Dizzy Dean, Lou Gehrig, and Ty Cobb.
After the war, men returned to work at US Rubber Company. Hazel met one, Ernest (Buck) McWherter and sometime later they married. They retired in the mid-seventies, and returned to Macon County, NC to begin their retirement years. There were no children born from their marriage. Buck passed in 1982. Hazel leaves behind two nephews, Lamar Houston (Jane), Bruce Houston (Amanda), plus many generations of cousins, nephews, and close friends.
Funeral arrangements will be July 18, at 3pm in the Chapel of Macon Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 2-3pm, one hour prior to the service. Pastor Jason Smith will officiate. Internment will be in the Iotla Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Kolton Houston, Kollin Houston, Konner Houston, and Jake Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Iotla Baptist Church Cemetery fund.
Condolences can be made to the family at www.maconfuneralhome.com.
Macon Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
After graduating from Franklin High School, Hazel worked one year in Highlands, NC. Following this employment, she joined other family members in Detroit, Michigan where many other people from Macon County had moved to work just prior to the beginning of World War II. Hazel found early work as a waitress in a restaurant just across the street from The United States Rubber Company, (us Rubber Co.). A major supervisor from this company eating breakfast in the restaurant noticed how hard a worker Hazel was and suggested she apply for employment at the company. He handed her a card with his name and instructed Hazel to give this card to the Human resources Office. She applied and was hired immediately. Hazel worked there for the next thirty-five years, which included all of World War II.
She has told stories of working with many other women seven days a week. During the war, the company made jeep and truck tires as well as ball bearings for tanks. The girls would write notes to the GIs and enclose them in the ball bearing packaging. It was during this time that her love for baseball began. After work, she and her friends would go across the street to watch baseball games. She saw all the old players including Micky Mantle, Dizzy Dean, Lou Gehrig, and Ty Cobb.
After the war, men returned to work at US Rubber Company. Hazel met one, Ernest (Buck) McWherter and sometime later they married. They retired in the mid-seventies, and returned to Macon County, NC to begin their retirement years. There were no children born from their marriage. Buck passed in 1982. Hazel leaves behind two nephews, Lamar Houston (Jane), Bruce Houston (Amanda), plus many generations of cousins, nephews, and close friends.
Funeral arrangements will be July 18, at 3pm in the Chapel of Macon Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 2-3pm, one hour prior to the service. Pastor Jason Smith will officiate. Internment will be in the Iotla Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Kolton Houston, Kollin Houston, Konner Houston, and Jake Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Iotla Baptist Church Cemetery fund.
Condolences can be made to the family at www.maconfuneralhome.com.
Macon Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
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