Tabor City, NC

Mrs. Shelby Jean “Peggy” Prince, age 81, died Thursday, August 17, 2017 in the Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Life Care Center, Whiteville, NC.  Born August 3, 1936 in Horry County, she was the daughter of the late Donnie McCoy Coats and Alphie Bell Coats and the widow of Herbert Elton “Fat” Prince, Sr.

She is survived by two daughters: Sylvia P. Woolley of Apopka, FL, Trudy P. Buffkin of Tabor City; three sons: Herbert Elton Prince, Jr. of Macon, GA, Kelly McCoy Prince, Sr. of Wilmington, NC, Nicholas Lorenzo Prince of Tabor City; one brother: Sammie Coats of Loris, SC; nine grandchildren; seven great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by one son: Phillip Alonzo Prince, twin of Nicholas; two sisters: Helen Dean Strickland, Christine Soles; one brother: Lacy Coats, one grandson: Justin Prince.

She cared for children at the Tabor City Baptist Church Daycare for thirty years.

Visitation will be held Friday, August 18, 2017 from 7 PM to 9 PM in the Inman Ward Funeral Home of Tabor City.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 10 AM in the Tabor City Baptist Church.  Burial will follow in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Tabor City.

A service of Inman Ward Funeral Home 

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