Laddy Jerome "Bud" Wilds

MARSHALL - LADDY "BUD" JEROME WILDS, 74, OF 75 LUMP TOWN RD. DIED FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2000 AT HIS RESIDENCE. A NATIVE OF MADISON COUNTY, MR. WILDS HAD RESIDED IN MICHIGAN AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY FOR MANY YEARS PRIOR TO RETURNING TO MADISON COUNTY IN 1989. HE WAS A U.S. ARMY VETERAN SERVING DURING WW II, RETIRED AS AN ASSISTANT MANAGER WITH PEARLMANS WAREHOUSE AND WAS OF THE BAPTIST FAITH. HE WAS A SON OF THE LATE LEWIS AUBURN AND GENEVA McDEVITT WILDS AND WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SISTER, BULAH SHELTON, AND BROTHERS ROY BRACKINS AND JIM HENRY WILDS. SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, KATHRYN MORGAN WILDS OF THE HOME; DAUGHTERS, JOYCE MORGAN OF ASHEVILLE, MARY FRUCI AND HUSBAND, FRAN OF HENDERSONVILLE, CHERYL ATKINS AND HUSBAND, BRUCE OF WEAVERVILLE; SISTERS, VELMA HENSLEY OF WEAVERVILLE, AND OLLIE HYATT OF PINEY FLATS, TENNESSEE; BROTHER, ALBERT WILDS AND WIFE, VIOLA OF ASHEVILLE; SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES AND NEPHEWS. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 2 PM MONDAY IN THE ANDERS-RICE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH THE REV. LEE ROY DENTON OFFICIATING. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS FOLLOWING THE MEMORIAL SERVICE. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO HOSPICE OF MADISON COUNTY, 745 CARL ELLER RD., MARS HILL, NC OR TO MADISON COUNTY EMS, 1443 NC HWY 213, MARSHALL, NC 28753. TO REGISTER ON-LINE GO TO THE FUNERAL SCHEDULE AT www.andersrice.com.