Mrs. Doris Mae Edmunds Wells, 86, of Lincoln Ave. entered into rest at the residence on Thursday, April 17, 2008 after an extended illness.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19 at New Hope Baptist Church with Rev. Lanis Lewis, Rev. Terry Bonds and Rev. Tom Kalliokoski officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Wells was born on July 21, 1921, and was the daughter of William Clay Edmunds and Ester Mae Cunningham Edmunds. She married Will Joe Wells on January 24, 1942 in McCormick, S.C., and they were married for 51 years before his death on May 19, 1993. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, James Paul Edmunds and Sidney Clay Edmunds; and her sisters, Frances Edmunds Burton and Mary Edmunds Burch.

Mrs. Wells was a lifelong resident of Lincolnton and a graduate of Lincolnton High School in 1940. She was a homemaker and a member of New Hope Baptist Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Donna Wells Mixon of Lincolnton; two sons, Joe Racy Wells and wife, Judith, of Lincolnton and Edmunds Seymour Wells and wife, Fran, of Athens, Ga.; two brothers, William Henry Edmunds and Robert Allen Edmunds, both of Lincolnton; four grandchildren, Walden Racy Wells of Eatonton, Ga., Rachel Adelyn Wells Sasser and husband, Jon of Evans, Ga., Clayton Branch Bolton and wife, Ann of Columbia, S.C. and Anne Marie Wells Esslinger and husband, Greg, of Atlanta, Ga.; seven greatgrandchildren, Jonathan Adam Sasser, Aubrey Judith Sasser, Sydney Holland Sasser of Evans, Fowler Branch Bolton and Addison Wells Bolton of Columbia, S.C. Mary Crawford Esslinger and Davis Jeffery Esslinger of Atlanta.

Serving as pallbearers were Walden Racy Wells, Clayton Branch Bolton, Adam Sasser, Fowler Bolton, Jonathan Alan Sasser, Gregory Esslinger, Bobby Edmunds, Dale Edmunds and Wellington Burch.

Serving as honorary pallbearers were Bobby Rachels, Jr., Charles Wurst, Murray Norman, John Ludwig, David Haynes, Jim Chatham, W.F. Truitt and Gene Thornton, Jr.

You may sign the family's online guest book at www.reesfuneralhome. com.

Rees Funeral Home was in charge of services.