Jacob "Shorty" Koonts

Jacob Webster “Shorty” Koonts, 94, died as a result of a car accident, Thursday, October 28, 2010, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.   The funeral will be 2 p.m. Saturday, October 30, 2010, at Davidson Funeral Home Lexington Chapel with the Rev. Arnold Gosnell officiating. Burial will be private in Forest Hill Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. at the funeral home and other times at the home.   Mr. Koonts was born October 15, 1916, in Davidson County, to Cicero Jasper Koonts and Annie Elizabeth Brinson Koonts. He was a carpenter of Smith Lumber Company for 33 years, a member of Trinity Methodist Church for 79 years, having joined in 1931. He was a member of CCC Civilian Conservation Corp for six years in Oregon and the mountains of North Carolina and played baseball with Reeds, he is the last living player of the team of 1937. Mr. Koonts was also known as paper towel holder man in Lexington having given away over 300. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by 13 brothers and sisters; his first wife, Nancy Louise Koonts; granddaughter, Sherri Beale; great-granddaughter, Jennifer Rae Swinson   Surviving are his wife, Fannie Mae Hege Koonts of the home; sons, Stephen Webster Koonts of Lexington and Robert Stanley Koonts of Winston-Salem; daughter, Betty Carroll Koonts Ross of Chesapeake, Va.; grandchildren, Dean Koonts, Cheryl Hinson, Rusty Smith, and Chris Smith ; great-grandchildren, Tim and Lisa Marie Koonts, of Germany, Nikki Farrenkopf, Justin Beale, Gregory Shelley, Mark Smith, Joseph Smith and Savannah Smith; great-great-grandchildren, Ryan Farrenkopf, Haley Carroll Farrenkopf, Tiffany Shelley, Christina Shelley and Kristin Smith; great-great-grandchild, Jacob Thomas Curling; and two step-grandchildren in Texas.   The family would like to thank the ICCU Trauma Unit for the care given to Shorty during this time.   Memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, c/o Donese McBride, 105 Choctaw Drive, Lexington, NC 27295.   Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net