Charles Dwight Shoe

Charles Dwight Shoe, 83, resident of Newport News, Virginia, passed away August 30, 2012 Born May 8, 1929 in Salisbury, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Arthur Hardy and Marie Cress Shoe. Dwight received his education in the Salisbury Public Schools and graduated from Boyden High School. He entered East Carolina College on a football scholarship and graduated with a degree in Education and a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force. His two years of service were spent in Wyoming and at Wethersfield Air Base in Essex County, England. He coached football at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, N. C., at Wingate Junior College in Wingate, N. C., and at Davidson College in Davidson, N. C. During those years he earned a Master’s Degree in the Administration of Education from East Carolina University. In 1964 Dwight left coaching and joined Rand McNally Publishing Company to become a textbook representative to elementary and high schools in North and South Carolina. In 1994 he retired and returned to his first love, gardening and farming, at his farm home out from China Grove, N. C. In 2010 Dwight and his wife moved to Newport News, Virginia where he was living at the time of his death. He was a member of Calvary Reformed Presbyterian Church in Hampton, Virginia. One son, Nathan, and two granddaughters, Christie and Jennifer Shoe, preceded Dwight in death. Survivors include his wife, Anne Osborne Shoe, whom he wed February 22,1952; daughter, Anne Marie McMichael and husband Scott, of Newport News; sons, Richard Forrest and wife, Angie, of Roanoke Rapids, N. C. and Dwight Hardy and wife Elise of Huntersville, N. C.; twelve grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; brothers, Arthur Hardy and wife, Bertha, of Salisbury; Arnold Wayne and wife Sadie, of Nichols, S. C.; sisters-in-law, Frances Shoe of Mooresville and Jean Curlee of Statesville; and brother-in-law, Richard Osborne and wife Barbara of Metairie, Louisiana. The family will receive friends and relatives at Summersett Funeral Home from 1:30-2PM Sunday, September 2, 2012. Memorial service will be held in the Summersett Memorial Chapel at 2PM led by the Reverend Merle Dye, followed by burial at Rowan Memorial Park. Summersett Funeral Home is serving the Shoe family. Online condolences may be made at www.summersettfuneralhome.com.

Charles Dwight Shoe

May 8, 1929 - August 30, 2012