Monday, September 23, 2024 | 4:55 PM
Racer Productions is saddened to learn of the passing of GNCC racer, Cole Mattison, whose life was cut short at the young age of 26 this past Sunday, September 22, as the result of an accident near his hometown in Chesnee, South Carolina.
Cole had been a part of the GNCC family since racing in the youth bike ranks in 2013 and would earn the youth Super Mini championship in 2014. Cole would race his way up the ranks and earn the 4-Stroke A Lites championship in 2017. In 2019, Cole would move up to the XC2 250 Pro class and finish 10th in class at the season opener, his best of the season. Cole raced in some select races in the FMF XC3 125 class during the 2020 season before focusing on his family and work outside of the racing industry for the last couple of years.
Surviving in addition to his mother, Nicole Neeley (Rusty Layton); are sister, Neeley Mattison; brother, Joseph “JoJo” Mattison; son, Hayden James and his mother, Victoria “Tori” Libby; grandparents, Robert and Eunice Neeley, and Susan Mattison; uncle, Andy Mattison and wife Crystal, and their children, Piper and Cruz Mattison; aunt, Julie Mattison, and her children, Malachi Brooks, and Zane and Warren Bishop; many other family members who loved him dearly; and his racing family. In addition to his father, Cole was predeceased by grandfather, Jimmy Mattison.
A memorial service will be held at 3:00 PM Monday, September 30, 2024, in the Chapel of Eggers Funeral Home of Boiling Springs with Chaplin Matthew Scruggs and Mr. Seth Caldwell officiating.
The family will receive friends from 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM Monday at the funeral home following the memorial service.
Memorials may be made to the Go Fund Me set up in his memory.
Godspeed, Cole.
