Christopher Scott Shiflett

Christopher Scott “Chris” Shiflett – age 28, of Hickory died Saturday, December 28, 2013. Born March 7, 1985 at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, SC, he was the son of Greg and Hope Shiflett. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Bobby and Mabel Little and Richard Shiflett.

A service of remembrance will be held at 4:00 pm on Saturday, January 4, 2014 at Sandy Ridge Baptist Church in Hickory. Pastor Sam Crowe will officiate and a vigil will follow at Wittenburg Access on Lake Hickory with the release of sky laterns. The family will receive friends from 2 to 3:45 pm on Saturday at the church prior to the service.

He was a member of the Boy Scout troop 387. He was a graduate of St. Stephens High School, where he was a member of the men’s varsity soccer team, as well as the varsity football team. During the off season he played for CVYSA and the Huntington Hills Church softball team. He attended Lees McCrea College, where he played division two soccer, and was elected freshmen class president. During school he worked on Christmas tree farms and volunteered with Big Brother/Big Sister Foundation. He did a summer study at East Tennessee University, the summer before attending East Carolina University, where he will always be a “Pirate”. After graduating from ECU the following summer he married his high school sweetheart, who will love him always and forever. He then continued his lifelong dream to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study pharmacy and UNC basketball. He fulfilled his dream of going to a Duke Carolina game and participated in as many intramural sports as possible. He made lifelong friends along the way, and discovered a passion for medicine with a clinical pharmacy. Along the way he rescued two dogs, made a one day trip to New York City and spent many weekends traveling to see family friends. After graduating from Carolina he was offered a job as a clinical pharmacist at Cape Fear Valley Hospital. He spent the next year working and perfecting his career, where he was loved and will be missed. Meanwhile, he discovered a love for traveling, taking his wife on surprise trips to NYC and Chicago, each year for Christmas. He had a passion for life which everyone felt while around him. He loved watching college sports, basketball with his dad and football with his father-in-law. He held his mother in a special place in his heart. He will be dearly missed and never replaced, by all who loved him.

He is survived by his newborn baby girl, Lucille Christine “Lucy”, who he never got to meet, but will always be with her; his wife:, Holly Francis Shiflett; his parents, Greg and Hope Shiflett; grandmother, Eve Shiflett; aunt Debbie Shiflett; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Gary and Francine Greer, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Rocky and Erin Greer, Anthony and Kristi Greer; niece, Evelyn Greer; nephew, Jackson Greer; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and extended family and numerous best friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105; Boy Scouts of America, Piedmont Council, PO Box 1059, Gastonia, NC 28053 or S.P.C.A. International, PO Box 8682, New York, NY 10001.

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