Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Rocky Mount Baptist Church, with the Rev. George Huneycutt and the Rev. Rex Burleson officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery with military honors by the Stanly County DAV. The family will receive friends from 2-3 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
Baucom was born Nov. 3, 1923, in Anson County. He was a son of the late Willie and Glennie Deese Baucom and was a retired superintendent with McDevitt & Street Construction Company. He was a member of Rocky Mount Baptist Church, an ordained Baptist minister and a World War II Army veteran. He was a founding member of the Burnsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. He was preceded in death by his wife, Polly Randall Baucom. He is survived by two sons, Ronnie and Mark Baucom, both of Polkton; one brother, Rogers Baucom of Wadesboro; eight sisters, May Randall and Lucille Howell, both of Ansonville, Perene Williams and Darlene Threatt, both of Polkton, Gail Crump of Norwood, Dolly Little of Marshville, Betty Rogers of Stanfield and Enza Nash of Charlotte; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Online condolences to edwardsfuneralhomes.com.
Memorials may be made to Rocky Mount Baptist Church, 4115 Rocky Mount Church Road, Polkton, NC 28135.

