Cathy Lorraine McLaurin

WADESBORO – On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, Cathy Lorraine McLaurin 70, passed away peacefully and with dignity at Richmond County Hospice Haven in Rockingham. 

 There will be a service to celebrate Cathy’s life at 11:00 AM, Saturday, September 28, 2024, in the Chapel of Leavitt Funeral Home with Rev. Kevin Ricketts officiating. Inurnment will be in Eastview Cemetery. 

 The family will greet friends prior to the service at the funeral home and other times at the home of Ken Caulder. 

 Cathy was born in Anson County, NC on Friday, March 19, 1954, and was the daughter of the late Johnny Winston McLaurin and the late Sarah Helen Usrey McLaurin. She was a 1972 graduate of Bowman High School and attended Wingate College.  

 She was a graduate of Richmond Community College’s Nursing Program and worked as a registered nurse for more than 25 years. Her nursing career included employment at Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. She also worked with Wadesboro Nursing Home, now, Wadesboro Health and Rehab, Anson County Hospital, now, Atrium Health Anson and before her retirement, she worked as a home health nurse with Healthy at Home. 

 Following her retirement, she worked as a private duty care giver and made many lasting relationships with the families she worked with. Her clients and their families became family to her. 

 Cathy had a renewed faith in Christ and has been associated with Calvary Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church, Wadesboro, where she enjoyed Monday morning Bible study and Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, where she was a member. These communities of faith with which she has been a part of embraced her, loved her and encouraged her on her faith journey. 

 Those who are left to cherish her memory are her son and daughter-in-law, Jody Coward and Rebecca of Wake Forest, NC; her twin grandsons, Jacob and Colton; her neighbor, who was much like another son to her, Ken Caulder of Wadesboro , Glenn Caulder of Wadesboro; her cousins, Barbara Coggin of Wadesboro and Joe Frank Cook and wife, Nena of Monroe, NC and their families; special family friends, Tommy Diggs of Lilesville, Rachel Lockler and Susie Curtiss both of Wadesboro, and Johnny and Talisha Pope of Polkton and her fur babies, Coco and Izzy. 

 In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Johnny Winston “Buddy” McLaurin, Jr. and by her dear friend, Virginia Baker, who Cathy loved like a mother. 

 Cathy’s family is most grateful to Anson Community Hospice for the wonderful care they provided for her, for her community of friends who have loved and supported her through this journey and most recently to the staff of Hospice Haven in Rockingham who made her final days the best they could be with dignity and caring. 

 In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Eastview Cemetery Trust, P.O. Box 274, Wadesboro, NC 28170 or to Anson Community Hospice, a Division of Richmond County Hospice, 1119 N US 1, Rockingham, NC 28170. 

 The arrangements are in care of Leavitt Funeral Home and online condolences may be made at www.leavittfh.com