James Carl Waite

James Carl (Moses) Waite, 54, of Mt. Pleasant, formerly of Rome and Long Beach, Calif., died Saturday, Nov. 15, at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif.

A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at Murphy Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant, with Pastor John Zimmerman officiating. Burial will be in the Aspen Grove Cemetery at Burlington. The family will receive friends from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.

A memorial has been established in his memory.

James was born Feb. 8, 1954, in Grand Rapids, Mich., the son of Herbert and Margaret Inman Waite. He married Diane Waite, then he later married Dolly Farnett on Sept. 28, 1987, in Burlington. He was a truck driver for Liberty Transport of Burlington for 10 years. He was an avid outdoorsman who loved to fish, hunt, and grill and was a Rams football fan. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends.

For more, see our Nov. 21 print edition.