Katherine Loreta Trollinger

1926 - 1999  (73 years)

• Name	Katherine Loreta Trollinger
  Nickname	Loretta
  Birth	19 Sep 1926	Catawba County, NC
  	Name: Katherine Loreta Trollinger Date of Birth: 19 Sep 1926 Birth County: Catawba Parent1 Name: George H Trollinger Parent2 Name: Mary Rosa Lee Huitt Roll Number: B_C021_66001 Volume: 12 Page: 317
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Oct 1999	Hickory, Catawba, NC
  	U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index Name: Katherine Loreta Trollinger Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 19 Sep 1926 Birth Place: Catawba Cata, North Carolina Death Date: 27 Oct 1999 Father: George H Trollinger Mother: Mary R Huitt SSN: 246349679 Signature on SSN Card: Loreta Trollinger Relationship of Signature: Signature name differs from NH?s name. Notes: May 1944: Name listed as KATHERINE LORETA TROLLINGER; 04 Nov 1999: Name listed as KATHERINE L TROLLINGER North Carolina, Death Indexes Name: Katherine Loreta Trollinger Gender: Female Race: White Hispanic Origin: Non-Hispanic Marital status: Never Married (Single) Social Security Number: 246349679 Father's Last Name: Trollinger Age: 73 Years Date of Birth: 19 Sep 1926 Birth County: Catawba Residence City: Burnsville Residence County: Catawba Residence State: North Carolina Residence Zip Code: 28609 Education: 12th grade Occupation: Miscellaneous printing machine operators Industry: Knitting mills Date of Death: 27 Oct 1999 Death City: Hickory Death County: Catawba Death State: North Carolina Autopsy: Autopsy Performed Autopsy Findings: Autopsy findings were not considered in determining cause of death institution: Hospital Inpatient Hospital Name: CATAWBA MEM HOSP Attendant: Physician Burial Location: Burial in-state Recorded Date: 9 Nov 1999 Source Vendor: North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics
  Burial	Catawba County, NC
  	Burial: Providence Memorial Cemetery Catawba, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA Inscription: K. Loreta Trollinger Sept. 19, 1926 Oct. 27, 1999
  Person ID	I21343	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	George Horton Trollinger,   b. 5 Apr 1884, Catawba County, NC d. 9 Mar 1963, Catawba County, NC (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Mary Rosalie "Rosie" Hewitt,   b. 3 Jun 1888, Catawba County, NC d. 27 Jan 1974, Catawba County, NC (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F7355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 19 Sep 1926 - Catawba County, NC Death - 27 Oct 1999 - Hickory, Catawba, NC Burial - - Catawba County, NC  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		Loretta Trollinger
  		Trollinger Homestead

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Catawba Baptist Circle Convenes
  		Catawba Circle Women Gather CATAWBA CIRCLE WOMEN GATHER CATAWBA. Oct. 29. The Ruth circle of the Catawba Baptist Womans Missionary society met Thursday evening at the home of Miss Carolyn Hubbard. Mra Jack Wilson was program leader. Participating in the program were Mrs. A. B. Waters, Mrs. Neil Ervin, Miss Carolyn Hubbard, Miss Loretta Trollinger, and Miss Louise Waters, a special guest. Following the program Mrs. Ervin, the circle leader, conducted a business session, after which the hostess served refreshments to Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Ervin, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Trollinger, Miss Waters, Miss Peggy Ervin and Miss Ann Gray Wilson.
  		Catawba Circle Holds Meeting CATAWBA CIRCLE HOLDS MEETING CATAWBA. June 21. The Ruth Circle of the Catawba Baptist Woman Missionary society met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Coite Witherspoon. Mrs. Withei-fpoon as program leader. Miss Carolyn Hubbard conducted the business session. After the meeting the hostess, as-dated by Miss Hubbard, served re-frehments to Mrs. A. R. Waters, Mrs. Grady Aberncthy, Mrs. Charlie Cook Mr. Neil Ervin. Miss Loretta Trol-linger. Miss Hubbard, members, and Miss Louise Waters, Miss Nina Ervin. Miss Peggy Ervin, Miss Pol-ly Abernethy, visitors.

  
  

  Headstones

  Providence Memorial Cemetery Catawba, Catawba, NC

  
  

• Notes

  Katherine never married Loretta Trollinger Paid Her Blessings Forward Spreading Good News, Fall 2014 Bill Overby, Director of Trust & Endowment Development 11/19/2014 - It was a hot day in September of 1991 that we met Loretta Trollinger for the first time. She had been referred to Baptist Foundation Executive Director Edwin Coates by a sister Baptist institution, and so Edwin and Bill Overby traveled to Catawba, NC to visit her home in this rural community. To access the home, we had to travel a dirt path through a cemetery, drive an overgrown wooded farm road for a quarter mile, then reach an open area where the family farmhouse stood. The home was roughly 100 years old, appeared to have never been painted and leaned in a couple of different directions. The only plumbing was a well line that entered and stopped at the kitchen sink. Electricity was very poor and a typical room consisted of a bare bulb hanging down with extension cords extending across the ceiling. Our initial reaction was to incorrectly assess whether the occupants would possibly be in need of the services of the NC Baptist Foundation. We were warmly and graciously greeted at the front door by 68-year-old Loretta Trollinger, the youngest of three, never-married siblings. Her brother Trollie was 79 and lived in the home with Loretta. Sister Eunice was 83 and lived in a federally subsidized apartment in Statesville. All three were happy and lived on social security income of about $400 a month each. The family farm consisted of two parcels, the home place of about 55 acres and a second parcel of about 39 acres located across the highway. Assets beyond this were almost nonexistent. What Loretta had, though, was a warm heart, a great love for the Lord, a desire to help her family and the realization that she wanted all she had to support Christian ministry at her death. Although she had never seen the movie Pay it Forward, she had a great desire to pay her blessings forward to help others that were not as blessed as she was. At the Trollingers' request, the 39 acre parcel was gifted into a trust that would pay them income for their lives and then support Christian ministries on a permanent basis. Instead of having to pay property taxes, they then had income beyond what they ever expected. At the death of Trollie and Eunice, Loretta inherited the siblings' shares of the home place and realized that she needed a Will to complete her plans of paying it forward. She got everything in place just like she wanted, and then in 1999 went to be with her Lord. Fast forward to 2014. The Trollingers' two endowments are paying out almost $20,000 in income this year to churches for outreach, to mission's organizations at home and abroad, to ministries serving poor retired pastors and to a college for needy Divinity School students. Loretta's dream to be able to pay her blessings forward so that others might know the love of Christ, and even have some opportunities that she never had, will continue until the Lord returns.