Obituaries
Connie Ruth Darnell
Jan 26, 2007
Elkin Mrs. Connie Ruth Talley Darnell, age 95, passed away Friday, January 26, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Darnell was born July 7, 1911 in Yadkin County to James & Fannie Weatherman Talley. Mrs. Darnell was retired from Chatham Manufacturing where she worked for more than 50 years and was a member of Elkin Valley Baptist Church. In...
Aline Shamel Engel
Jan 24, 2007
Mrs. Aline Shamel Engel, 83, of 124 Argonne Road, Elkin, North Carolina, the widow of Ernst Engel, died Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee at the home of her daughter, Judy Teasley. Mrs. Engel, a lifelong Democrat, was born in Forsyth County on October 18, 1923 to Ezra Timothy and Marguerite Hine Shamel. She graduated from Salem College and...
Bobby Eugene Wilson
Jan 21, 2007
Mr. Bobby Eugene Wilson age 71, of Northwood Drive passed away Sunday January 21, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Mr. Wilson was born October 25 1935 in Harrison TN. to Thomas Ray and Mary Effie Burns Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a member of 1st Baptist Church of Elkin, and a Veteran of the U.S. Army. Mr. Wilson was the...
Paul Ernest Butcher
Jan 20, 2007
Thurmond Mr. Paul Ernest Butcher, age 81, of US Hwy. 21, Thurmond, passed away Saturday, January 20, 2007. Mr. Butcher was born July 26, 1925 in Surry County to Troy & Ida Gilly Butcher. Mr. Butcher was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the United States Army and served during WWII, and received numerous...
Ruby Cockerham Key
Jan 15, 2007
State Road Mrs. Ruby Frances Cockerham Key, age 91, of Mountain Park Road, passed away Sunday, January 14, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mrs. Key was born July 5, 1915 in Surry County to Eugene Holton and Laura Elizabeth Simmons Cockerham. Mrs. Key was a retired sales clerk at Chatham Country Store and was a lifelong member of Mount...
Jack Gray Day
Jan 12, 2007
Jonesville Mr. Jack Gray Day, age 78, of Bethel Road passed away Friday, January 12, 2007 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem. Mr. Day was born October 8, 1928 in Wilkes County to Charles and De Etta Hampton Day. Mr. Day was a member of Bethel Baptist Church and was a retired Pattern Builder with Chatham Manufacturing Co....
Alma Ruth Lassiter
Jan 12, 2007
Elkin Mrs. Alma Ruth Lassiter, age 82, of South Street, passed away Friday, January 12, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Lassiter was born February 2, 1924 in Randolph County to John Lee & Sally VonCannon Burkhart. Mrs. Lassiter was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...
Ruby Elizabeth Wagoner
Jan 9, 2007
Wilkesboro Mrs. Ruby Elizabeth Wagoner, age 87, of Fletcher Street, passed away, Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at Wilkes Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Wagoner was born September 27, 1919 in Wilkes County to James Bradford & Mamie Love Luffman. Mrs. Wagoner was a member of Little Elkin Baptist Church and was retired from Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. In addition to her...
Edward R. Long
Jan 7, 2007
Elkin Mr. Edward Ralston "Ral" Long, 81, passed away peacefully Sunday morning Jan. 7, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mr. Long was born Jan. 7, 1926 in the Salem Fork Community to John Alexander and Esther Haymore Long. He had lived in the Elkin area for his entire life with the exception of his service with the US Army...
Donald Lee Macemore
Jan 6, 2007
State Road Mr. Donald Lee Macemore, age 64, of Mountain Park Road, passed away, Saturday, January 6, 2007 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Mr. Macemore was born August 5, 1942 in Yadkin County to Everette Daniel & Annie Benton Macemore. Mr. Macemore was retired from Piedmont/US Airways and was a veteran of the United States Army. He attended Mount...
Dwight Duncan Sale
Jan 5, 2007
Dwight Duncan Sale, age 84, of Johnson Ridge Road, passed away Friday, January 5, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mr. Sale was born October 5, 1922 in Wilkes County to Dana & Eva Duncan Sale. Mr. Sale was retired from Chatam Manufacturing and was a member of Elkin Valley Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. In addition...
Lona Irwin Osborne
Jan 5, 2007
Mrs. Lona Irwin Osborne, age 75, of C.B. Eller School Road, passed away, Friday, January 5, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Osborne was born April 16, 1931 in Alleghany County to Preston & Olivia Wagoner Irwin. Mrs. Osborne was retired from Lucia and was a member of Old Roaring River Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she...
Dwight Duncan Sale
Jan 5, 2007
Dwight Duncan Sale, age 84, of Johnson Ridge Road, passed away Friday, January 5, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mr. Sale was born October 5, 1922 in Wilkes County to Dana & Eva Duncan Sale. Mr. Sale was retired from Chatam Manufacturing and was a member of Elkin Valley Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. In addition...
Jewell Brown Pruett
Jan 5, 2007
Jewell Brown Pruett, 81, of Elkin Highway 268, Ronda, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, January 5, 2007, at the home of her daughter, Janice Carlton of Lincolnton, NC. Born in Elkhorn, West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Cyrus and Fannie Brown of Moravian Falls, NC. She was preceded in death by her husband,...
Elaine Abrams Oliver
Jan 5, 2007
Mrs. Elaine Abrams Oliver, age 72, of Calvary Road, passed away Friday, January 5, 2007 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mrs. Oliver was born September 20, 1934 in Brooklyn, NY to Bennie & Sadie Abrams. Mrs. Oliver was retired from Ryder Trucking and was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death...
Jerry Bobby Settle
Jan 4, 2007
Roaring River Mr. Jerry Bobby Settle, age 64, of Austin Little Mountain Road, passed away Thursday, January 4, 2007 at his residence. Mr. Settle was born February 18, 1942 in Wilkes County to Cletus B. & Fansie Mae Tucker Settle. Mr. Settle was a member of Benham Baptist Church and was retired from US Airways. He was a veteran of...
Ralph Lytle Alexander
Jan 3, 2007
Jonesville Mr. Ralph Lytle Alexander, age 82 of Oak Street, passed away, Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at Pennybyrn at Maryfield of High Point. Mr. Alexander was born February 13, 1924 in Wilkes County to William Lytle & Mary Truitt Alexander. Mr. Alexander was a veteran of the United States Navy and served during World War II. He was retired from...
Emma Lee Spann
Dec 28, 2006
Jonesville Mrs. Emma Lee Spann, age 97, passed away Thursday, December 28, 2006 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mrs. Spann was born February 13, 1909 in Wilkes County to James & Alice Porter Pardue. Mrs. Spann was a homemaker and was a member of Arlington 1st Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...
Gerald R. Ford
Dec 26, 2006
Gerald Rudolph Ford was the thirty-eighth president of the United States. Ford was originally named after his biological father, Leslie Lynch King. When his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, remarried, Ford was renamed after his stepfather. Ford attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was a gifted athlete and scholar. After college, he received offers from two...
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