In Memory

David Robert Cone

David Robert Cone

Birth:  Mar. 26, 1947
Gastonia
Gaston County
North Carolina, USA
Death:  Jun. 23, 2009
Blowing Rock
Watauga County
North Carolina, USA


 

David Robert Cone, 62, of Gastonia, NC, passed away on June 23, 2009 in Blowing Rock, NC. 

David was born in Gastonia on March 26, 1947, son of Richard Ray Cone and Jane E. Davis and was a graduate of Ashley High School and Cornell University in New York. He was an Eagle Scout and served on the Piedmont Boy Scout Camp staff in Tryon, NC. He has been working with Little Hardware in Charlotte, NC. 

David was a teacher in the Gaston County public schools and at Gaston Day School. An avid outdoorsman, David owned and operated backpacking stores in Greenville and Clemson, SC. In Gastonia he ran the Drumlin outdoor guide company, taking local students and adults on backpacking trips in the Sierras, mountain climbing at Mt. Rainer, kayaking in Glacier Bay and barefoot sailing in the Bahamas. 

David's work helping to protect King's Mountain and Crowder's Mountain began shortly after graduating from Cornell with a degree in Forestry. He has continued to work with the Friends of Crowders Mountain. 

A published author, David has written several novels including The Maelstrom, Jacob's Ring, Homo Primus, Shining Rock and a book of poems entitled, The Cabin at Saranac Lake. 

David is survived by his sister Barbara McCloskey of Boone, NC and his brother John Cone of Columbia, SC. 

His hundreds of friends who have followed him up a rock face at Crowder's, climbing Mt. Ranier, on eagle hacking trips to Shining Rock, into the depths of caves in Kentucky, in inner-tubes down the frigid Green River, in canoes down the Chatooga River, or across the vast tundra of the Gates of the Arctic, will be comforted to think of the back of David's pack as he heads off into his next great adventure. 

...Excerpts from Gaston Gazette Obituary... 

 
Burial:
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown.







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