Eldridge L. Fox

Candler - Eldridge Locke Fox, 66, of 4 Asbury Place died Thursday November 21, 2002 at the Mtn. Area Hospice Solace Center. A native of Madison County, he was a lifelong resident of Buncombe County. He was a 1954 graduate of Sand Hill High School and attended Western Carolina Teachers College and Mars Hill College. He served 6 years in the U.S. Army and was discharged on July 31, 1962 as a Corporal First Class Cryptographer stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri and Ft. Bragg, N.C. He was the owner of Ashevilles own Kingsmen Quartet and a lifetime member and Hall Of Fame member of both the Southern Gospel Music Association and Gospel Music Association. He was member of Ridgeway Baptist Church and the Hominy Lodge #491 and the Grand York Rite. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Belvia and Denver Fox and an infant daughter, Debra Renee Fox. Surviving are his wife, Juanita Johnson Fox of the home; daughter, Terri Lynne and husband Lee Cutshall; sons, Timothy Calvin Fox and Gregory Eldridge Fox and wife Robin Rhymer Fox all of Asheville; grandchildren, Brittany Dayle Fox and Jonathan Kingslee Cutshall; brother, Vaughn Fox; special niece, Becky Fox Thompson; Mary Beth, Megan, David and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday at Ridgeway Baptist Church with the Revs. Jackie Collins, Squire Parsons, Ray Talley and Cecil Fox officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Chris Scorsone, Eric McKinney, Jeff Collins, David Johnson, Tim Surrett and Danny Shook serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be, Brother Rankin Bud Hipp, Maurice Templeton, Little Joe Brown, Randy Flack and all past Kingsmen Quartet Members. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8:00 P.M. Sunday at the church. Memorials may be made to: Mtn. Area Hospice, P.O. Box 25338, Asheville, N.C. 28813 or to: Southern Gospel Music Association, P.O. Box 6729, Sevierville, Tn. 37864.