Obituaries
Mr. William General "Pete" Bowman
Mar 18, 2012
Mr. William General "Pete" Bowman, age 67 of Stuart, passed away Sunday, March 18, 2012 at his home. He was born in Patrick County on July 1, 1944 to the late David and Piney Bowman. In addition to his parents, Mr. Bowman was preceded in death by an infant son; four sisters, Geraldine Merriman, Girlene Clifton, Lucy Agee and Shirley...
Harris Cora Leonard Lawson
Mar 18, 2012
Mrs. Harris Cora Leonard Lawson, 84, of 130 Wall Street, Mount Airy, passed away early Sunday morning, March 18, 2012, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. Lawson was born May 13, 1927, in Carroll County, VA, the daughter of the late John Reuben and Cora Mae Dowell Leonard. Harris retired from Proctor-Silex Inc. and was a member of Welcome...
Mr. Lester Wayne Vaughn
Mar 17, 2012
Mr. Lester Wayne Vaughn, 90, formerly of Mount Airy, died Saturday, March 17, 2012, at Brookridge Retirement Community in Winston-Salem, NC. Mr. Vaughn was born February 2, 1922, in Surry County, the son of the late Zebulon Vance Vaughn and Ella Mae Robertson Vaughn. Mr. Vaughn was retried after 61 years with National Mount Airy Furniture, a Division of Bassett...
Jack Ray Tate
Mar 17, 2012
Mr. Jack Ray Tate, 59, of 3236 East Pine Street, Mount Airy, passed away Saturday night, March 17, 2012, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Mr. Tate was born November 17, 1952, in Surry County, the son of the late Ray and Hazel Davis Tate. He was employed at Walmart. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Jean Hayden Tate of the...
Mr. Larkin "Eugene" Hubbard
Mar 17, 2012
Mr. Larkin "Eugene" Hubbard, age 73 of Meadows of Dan passed away Saturday evening at his home. He was born on May 9, 1938 to the late Charlie Dan Hubbard and India Mae Wood Hubbard. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a grandson, Sprout Rhodes; a brother, Hampton Hubbard and three sisters, Annabelle Hubbard, Ivydell...
Mrs. Ethel Browder McCraw
Mar 17, 2012
Mrs. Ethel Corine Browder McCraw, age 76, of Pilot Mountain, NC passed away on Saturday morning March 17, 2012 at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC. She was born in Surry Co. on April 6, 1935 to the late Jessie Haymore Browder and the late Eunice Spainhour Browder. She was retired from the Northern Hospital of...
Mrs. Doris Helen Gilbert Collins
Mar 17, 2012
Mrs. Doris Helen Gilbert Collins, 93 of Stuart, passed away Saturday at Blue Ridge Nursing Center in Stuart. She was born in Patrick County on September 9, 1918 to the late Sebastian and Lizzie Beth Dalton Gilbert. In addition to her parents Mrs. Collins was preceded in death by her husband William Collins; a son Gilbert Collins; a daughter-in-law, Jean...
Lottie Mae Burgess Gouge
Mar 17, 2012
Mrs. Lottie Mae Burgess Gouge, 91, of 277 Clover Lane, Mount Airy, passed away Saturday morning, March 17, 2012, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mrs. Gouge was born March 2, 1921, in Putnam County, TN, the daughter of the late Matt and Janner Brewington Burgess. She was a homemaker and a devout Christian. She is...
Mrs. Gladys Johnson Woodring
Mar 17, 2012
Gladys Virginia Johnson Woodring, age 88, of Dobson, NC, Went home to be with the Lord on Saturday morning March 17, 2012 at the Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC . She was born in Surry County on April 14, 1923 to the late Dillard Isaac Johnson and to the late Mallie Jane White Johnson. She was...
Mrs. Virginia Cowles Smith Faw
Mar 16, 2012
Ms. Virginia Cowles Smith Faw, 85, of 502 Woodberry Lane, Mount Airy, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, March 16, 2012, at her home. Ms. Faw was born July 24, 1926, in Richmond, VA, to the late George Herbert and Virginia Cowles Smith. She was a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a longtime volunteer with...
Mr. Frank Powell Mabe
Mar 16, 2012
Mr. Frank Powell Mabe age 86 of 730 Old Buck Shoals Road, Mt. Airy, NC widower of Mrs. Peggy Louise Horton Mabe went to be with the Lord on March 16, 2012 at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He was born May 22, 1925 in Surry County to the late John Beasley and Mary Anna Mabe, Sr. He...
Mrs. Okla Ovella Sawyers Easter
Mar 16, 2012
Mrs. Okla Ovella Sawyers Easter, age 89 of Cana, passed away at her daughter's home on Friday, March 16, 2012 surrounded by her loving family. Mrs. Easter was born in Carroll County on February 1, 1923 to Calvin E. and Florence Bonds Sawyers. She was a home maker and a member of Skyview Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Easter loved to...
Mrs. Sharon Denise Cox Bassett
Mar 16, 2012
Mrs. Sharon Denise Cox Bassett, age 50 of Claudville, Virginia passed away on Friday, March 16, 2012 as a result of an automobile accident. She was born on April 3, 1961 to Robert Samuel Cox and Mary Palmer Cox. Sharon truly enjoyed riding Harleys and fishing. She was a wonderful cook, avid reader, passionate gardener and just enjoyed life to...
Miss Vernia Elizabeth White
Mar 15, 2012
Miss Vernia Elizabeth White, 80, of Dobson entered the Portals of Heaven at Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home on Thursday, March 15, 2012 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Yadkin County on March 22, 1931 to the late Hubert and Cora Ellen White White. Mrs. White was a retired CNA and a member of Union Cross...
Mr. Charlie Calvin Jones
Mar 15, 2012
Mr. Charlie "Calvin" Jones, 65, of Dobson passed away in the comfort of his home surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, March 15, 2012. He was born in Surry County on September 18, 1946 to Robert Jones and the late Trudie Ethel Gunter Jones. Mr. Jones was a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. He retired from Sonoco Corflex...
Mrs. Peggy Moser Burchett
Mar 14, 2012
Mrs. Peggy Moser Burchette, 54, of Dobson passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born in Surry County on February 10, 1958 to Ella Moser and the late Oliver Eugene Moser. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Survivors include her loving husband of 31 years, Duane Burchette of the home; a...
Mrs. Mary Lucille Jarrell Davis
Mar 14, 2012
Mrs. Mary Lucille Jarrell Davis, 93, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Surry County on April 17, 1918 to the late James Walter and Maggie Lou Lowe Jarrell. She leaves to cherish...
James Aubrey Atkins
Mar 14, 2012
Mr. James Aubrey Atkins, 90, of King, passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem. Mr. Atkins was born February 2, 1922, in Surry County, to the late Elzevan and Bertie Dollyhigh Atkins. He was a veteran of World War II and retired from McLean Trucking Company. Aubrey attended Pine Hill Friends Meeting and...
C. Keith Hopkins
Mar 13, 2012
Mr. C. Keith Hopkins, age 56 of Stuart, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He was born in Patrick County on June 7, 1955. He had worked at Goodyear in Danville, and was preceded in death by his mother, Reva Washburn Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins is survived by his wife, Lynn Hopkins of the home; two daughters,...
Mrs. Trudie Beasley Stalnaker
Mar 12, 2012
Mrs. Trudie Beasley-Stalnaker, 82, devoted Christian mother and grandmother, of Dobson, passed away on Monday morning March 12, 2012, at Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson after an extended illness at the Village Care of King, NC. She was born in Wayne County (Goldsboro, NC) on November 14, 1929 to the late Henry B. and Lanie C. Edmundson....


