Addie Victoria Stack Starnes

Addie Victoria Stack Starnes, 99, of Newport, passed away on Monday, May 31, 2021, at her home.

Her funeral service will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 3, 2021, at Holly Springs Original Free Will Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Mitchell Parker, Rev. Terry Ellis, and Rev. Steve Starnes. Interment will follow at Amariah Garner Cemetery. Friends are welcome to attend the service. For those unable to attend, the family invites you to view the webcasting of the service through her obituary page on Munden Funeral Home’s website.

(See link below for the Service Bulletin including the Order of Service.)

Addie was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina on November 11, 1921, to the late Jefferson and Martha Stack. She was married to the late Rev. J.B. Starnes Sr. who preceded her in death in 1981.

Addie played a lot of different musical instruments. Her love was the piano. She played in most of the churches they pastored. She sang in quartets, trios and she and J.B. sang together often. She and her sister, Beulah, played guitar and sang semi-professionally for years on the radio in Kannapolis and Charlotte. Addie was in the “Worthy Is the Lamb” outdoor drama production in Cape Carteret for all 15 years.

She was a wonderful and faithful wife and was a great mother. Addie and J.B. had four children which she is survived by, Martha “Janie” Wilson and husband Donald of Pikeville, Teresa Gail Starnes Pender and husband Raymond of Newport, Jerry Baxter Starnes Jr. and wife Cindy of Newport, and Ronald Stephen Starnes and wife Bernadette of Newport; brother, Jeff Stack of Kannapolis; 16 grandchildren; 25 great grandchildren; and 8 great-great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by 5 brothers and 3 sisters.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Holly Springs Original Free Will Baptist Church.

As an expression of sympathy, flowers are welcome or memorial contributions in memory of Addie, may be made to Carteret Healthcare Hospice at P.O. Drawer 1619, Morehead City, NC 28557 or Holly Springs Free Will Baptist Church, at 163 Holly Springs Rd., Newport NC 28570.

Family and friends are welcome to submit online condolences at www.mundenfuneralhome.net

Arrangements by Munden Funeral Home & Crematory in Morehead City, NC.