Mr. David Luther Beck, Jr., 74, of 104 Beck Lane, Statesville, died Friday at Carolina's Medical Center in Charlotte. Born in Iredell County on June 1, 1935, he was a son of the late David Luther Beck, Sr., and Nancy Edna Steele Beck. He was a retired truck driver and a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church. He also enjoyed flying as he had a private pilot license.
He was preceded in death by brothers, John Frank Beck aqnd Tom Beck and a sister, Lois Call.
On December 20, 1958 he married the former Margie Turner, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Joseph Beck and his wife, Amy of Mocksville and Mark Beck of Statesville, two daughters, Kay Beck and Penny Fox and her husband, Ted, all of Statesville. Also surviving are grandchildren: Mark Beck, Shane Patterson, Sammy Patterson and Kayla Beck.
Additional survivors include a brother, Dorman Ray Beck and two sisters, Lorene Wallace and Shirley Ketchie all of Statesville.
Services celebrating Mr. Beck's life will be conducted at 2:00 Monday at Pleasant View Baptist Church with Rev. Jim Bowman and Rev. Jason Whitley officiating. He will lie in state at the church for thirty minutes prior to the service and burial will follow in the church cemetery. Sons, grandsons and Brian Beck will serve as pallbearers. The family will assemble at the residence of the deceased and will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 Sunday evening at Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home.
Condolences may be sent on-line to the family to www.bunchjohnsonfuneralhome.com. Memorials may be given to Pleasant View Baptist Church 1231 E. Memorial Hwy., Harmony, N.C. 28634, The American Diabetes Association 222 South Church Suite 336M, Charlotte, N.C. 28202 or to the American Heart Association, 4217 Park Place Court, Glen Allen, Va. 23060. Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
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