Mrs. Betty Lois Snow Martin
May 17, 2013
Mrs. Betty Lois Snow Martin age 68 of Mt. Airy, passed away Friday, May 17, 2013 at Forsyth Medical Center after a ten year battle with aplastic anemia (a rare blood disease). Mrs. Martin was born in Surry County on October 28, 1944 to James Robert and Cassie Mae Venable Snow. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and...
Mr. Jimmy Dean Holt
May 16, 2013
Mr. Jimmy Dean Holt, age 39 of Stuart passed away Thursday, May 16, 2013 at his home. He was born in Patrick County on July 11, 1973, and was preceded in death by a sister, Patty Sue Holt Stanley, his maternal grandparents, Henry Coolidge and Peggy Tilley Hayden; and his paternal grandparents, Ed and Delcie Holt. Mr. Holt is survived...
Mr. David Jackson Wilmoth
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 Dobson, NC Mr. David Jackson Wilmoth, age 56, of Dobson went home to be with the Lord on Thursday morning after a tragic automobile accident. He was born in Forsyth Co. on March 2, 1957 to the late Cleve Wilson Wilmoth and to Mary Faye Wood Wilmoth. He was employed by Pike Electric in Mt. Airy as...
Mr. John Roscoe Nolen
May 16, 2013
Mr. John Roscoe Nolen, age 86 of Collinsville, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, May 16, 2013, joining his wife of 63 years, Janice Rakes Nolen, who passed away on April 1, 2013. Mr. Nolen passed away at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He was born in Patrick County on Dec. 1, 1926. In addition to his wife,...
Mr. Roger Lee Martin
May 15, 2013
Mr. Roger Lee Martin, age 77, of Meadows of Dan, passed away on to his heavenly home on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Roger was born in Warsaw, New York, on August 30, 1935 and grew up on a dairy farm there. He served four years in the United States Air Force and was on the Rocky Mountain Regional Rifle Team....
Rhonda Lee Law McCraw
May 15, 2013
Mrs. Rhonda Lee Law McCraw, 61, of 279 Dover Church Road, Mount Airy, passed away early Wednesday morning, May 15, 2013, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. McCraw was born October 2, 1951, in Alamance County, to Alma Corder Law and the late James F. Law. Rhonda was a CNA at Colonial Care and a member of Imogene Baptist...
Mr. Clarence Eugene Wilmoth
May 15, 2013
Mr. Clarence Eugene "Gene" Wilmoth, age 74, of Thurmond, NC passed away at his home on Wednesday May 15, 2013. He was born in Surry Co. on July 14, 1938 to the late James Calvin and Effie Jane Pardue Wilmoth. He was retired from Chatham Manufacturing with over 28 years of service. He was of the Primitive Baptist faith. In...
Mrs. Marguerite Brown
May 15, 2013
Mrs. Virginia Marguerite Morris Brown, 98, of Mount Airy, N.C., formerly of Pulaski, Va., died on May 15, 2013 in the Skilled Care Unit of the Northern Hospital of Surry County in Mt. Airy. Marguerite was born in Mt. Airy in 1915 and married James Monroe "Jim" Brown, also of Mt. Airy, in 1939. More than 40 years of their...
Joan Florence Klueg Ernst
May 15, 2013
Mrs. Joan Florence Klueg Ernst Age 78 of Groundhog Hills Rd. Hillsville, VA. died Wednesday May 15, 2013 at her home. Mrs. Ernst was born July 30, 1934 in Brooklyn, NY. To the late Valentine Killian and Florence D'heron Klueg, she was a loving wife, mother grandmother and homemaker and was a member of Bluemont Presbyterian Church. Surviving are her...
Mr. James Elvis Johnson
May 13, 2013
Mr. James Elvis Johnson, age 81 of Mt. Airy, passed away Monday, May 13, 2013, at the Woltz Hospice Home. Mr. Johnson was born in Surry County on April 20, 1932 to Troy and Surrilda Ferguson Johnson. He proudly served our country in the US Army on the front lines during the Korean War. Surviving are a daughter, Ebbla Johnson;...
Katie Lee Key Gardner Jordan
May 13, 2013
Mrs. Katie Lee Key Gardner Jordan, 84, of 510 Ridgeway Drive, Mount Airy, passed away Monday afternoon, May 13, 2013, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, surrounded by her husband, children, and three of her seven grandchildren. Mrs. Jordan, who suffered a stroke Sunday afternoon, was born February 23, 1929, in Surry County, one of four children born...
Mrs. June Good Snow
May 13, 2013
Mrs. June Good Snow, age 77 of Mt. Airy, wife of Dr. C. Jack Snow, died Monday May 13, 2013 at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mrs. Snow was born in Surry County February 24, 1936 and was the daughter of the late Buford and Eva Croaff Good. Mrs. Snow was a graduate of Flat Rock...
Mr. Jackie Wayne Butcher
May 12, 2013
Mr. Jackie Wayne Butcher, 76, of Mt. Airy passed away Sunday, May 12, 2013 at his home. He was born in Surry County on October 24, 1936 to the late Arthur and Clara Mae Johnson Butcher. Mr. Butcher was retired from Renfro and was a member of Westside Baptist Church. He is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Gail and...
Mrs. Janie Wood Wright
May 11, 2013
Mrs. Janie Wood Wright, age 84, of Dobson, NC, passed away on Saturday May 11, 2013 at Central Continuing Care of Mt. Airy, NC. She was born in Surry Co. on September 8, 1928 to the late Richard and Pearl Reece Wood. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Rev. John Henry Wright; three...
Caleb Archie Barker
May 11, 2013
Mr. Caleb Archie Barker, 94, of Mount Airy, passed away Saturday morning, May 11, 2013, at Central Continuing Care. Mr. Barker was born August 12, 1918, in Surry County, the son of the late James "Jim" and Maude Ethel Rule Barker. Archie served our country in the United States Army during World War II. He owned and operated Canteen in...
Edgar Franklin Snow
May 10, 2013
Mr. Edgar Franklin Snow age 63 of 1559 Old Lowgap Road, Lowgap, NC passed away Friday, May 10, 2013 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He was born July 4, 1949 in Surry County to the late Edgar Austin and Ethel Mae Holder Snow. He was employed by Pepsi Cola Bottlers for 27 years. He was a member of...
Jerry Leonard Rakes
May 10, 2013
Jerry Leonard Rakes formerly of Fredericksburg Virginia passed away on May, 10 2013. In Dobson, NC at the Hospice House. He was preceded in death by his wife Loretta Rakes of 43 years. He is survived by two sons Richard Rakes and wife Cindy of Fredericksburg, Virginia and Michael Rakes and wife Kim of Ararat, Virginia. He is also survived...
Mrs. June Martin Smith
May 10, 2013
Mrs. June Martin Smith, 68, loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend who loved people, of Ararat, VA, widow of Gideon P. Smith, went home to be with the Lord, Friday afternoon, May 10, 2013, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Smith was born July 1, 1944, in Surry County, the daughter of the late James William and Willie Puckett...
Mrs. Linda Kay McCann
May 9, 2013
Mrs. Linda Kay Hawks McCann, 59, of Lowgap passed away Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. She was born in Carroll County, VA on May 10, 1953 to the late Raymond "Elwood" and Nina Galyean Hawks. Mrs. McCann worked in textiles and was a member of Charity Baptist Church. She is survived...
Mrs. Margie Ann Parrish Gammons
May 8, 2013
Mrs. Margie Ann Parrish Gammons, age 73 of Martinsville, passed away Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at Kindred Hospital in Greensboro. She was born in Kernersville, North Carolina on June 8, 1939 to the late Clyde B. and Emily Pruitt Parrish. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Gammons was preceded in death by her husband, Claude Robert Gammons; two brothers, Junior...