Mr. Joseph R. “Big Joe” Minter, 71 of Bear Creek passed on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at Chatham Hospital in Siler City.
Funeral services were held at 12 p.m. Monday, December 9, 2019 at Taylors Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial following in the church cemetery.
Joseph, son of the late James Hall and Annie Minter was born December 13, 1947 in New Hill. He graduated from J. S. Waters High School in Goldston, and had worked at GKN Automotive, Inc. Joe was preceded in death by siblings, George, Leon, Jasper, Leonard Minter, Nadine Degraffenreidt and Elizabeth Farrar Jones.
Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Patricia; daughters, Vicky Scott of Jacksonville, FL; Sherry Tabron of Raleigh, Tameka Minter of Sanford; five grandchildren, one great-grandchild; and sister, Joyce Edwards of Pittsboro.