C. Abernathy MAIDEN — Catherine Ball Abernathy, 75, of 109 East Boyd St., died March 21, 2003. The funeral was at 3 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church in Maiden where she was a member, Sunday school teacher and past director of Women’s Missionary Union. Burial followed in Lawings Chapel Baptist Church cemetery. She was an educator who served as a classroom teacher, speech therapist and curriculum supervisor and assistant superintendent of personnel of the Lincoln County School System. Survivors include her husband, C. Blair Abernathy; a son, Douglas B. Abernathy of Maiden; a daughter, Beverly Abernathy Quarles of Raleigh; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.