Gordon Etheridge Mattox

Gordon Etheridge Mattox, 71, of Wilson passed away Friday, April 18, 2025. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at Joyner’s Funeral Home, Wilson. Interment will follow in Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson. Bradley Watson will officiate.

The family will receive friends Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 – 3 p.m. at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson.

Gordon is survived by his fiancé, Nancy Ellington of Wilson; son, Clayton Cox and fiancé, Chelsey of Sims; sister, Toni McKeel and husband, Michael of Wilson; nephews, Brandon McKeel and wife Ashley, Christopher McKeel and wife, Abbie, and Nicholas McKeel and wife, Jenna; great nephews, Mattox, Walker and Brooks and his great niece, Madi Grace.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Verna Mattox.

Flowers are welcome or consider memorials in Gordon’s memory to Grace Baptist Church, 202 Kincaid Avenue N, Wilson, North Carolina 27893 or to Global Methodist Church, PO Box 8012, Wilson, North Carolina 27894.

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Condolences directed to Joyner’s Funeral Home and Crematory at www.joyners.net.