ZEBULON - Kenneth Newell Pearce, 71, died Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, March 23) at Union Chapel Baptist Church, with burial to follow in the church cemetery.

He was retired from Mortex. He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Neil Fowler Pearce, and several siblings.

Surviving: son, Kenn Pearce (Tina) of Wake Forest, Keith Pearce (Angie) of Middlesex; daughters, Kimberly Creech (Michael) and Kristie Lowery, both of Zebulon; siblings, Jack, James, Howard, Ruth, Jean and Dot; and six grandchildren.

Flowers welcomed or memorials may be made to either Susan G. Komen Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

Arrangements by Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell, www.stricklandfuneralhomes.net.