Obituaries
Mrs. Nancy Caudill Brannock
Dec 21, 2011
Mrs. Nancy Jane Caudill Brannock, 95, formerly of Sparta, peacefully passed on to Heaven in the hands of her precious grandchildren, Michael Brannock and Sheena Green on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at Olde Knox Commons in Huntersville. She was born in Alleghany County on November 2, 1916 to the late Riley and Amanda Jane Sanders Caudill. She is survived by...
Ms. Lessie Marie Smart
Dec 21, 2011
Ms. Lessie Marie Smart, age 71 of Vesta passed away Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at her home. She was born in Patrick County on September 1, 1940 to the late Millard and Vera Marshall Hooker. She had worked for Aerial Machine from 1988 to 2002, and was a member of Mount Hope Holiness Church. Ms. Smart is survived by three...
Griggs L. Hampton
Dec 21, 2011
Mr. Griggs L. Hampton, of Mount Airy, died Wednesday, December 21, 2011, at Golden Living Center in Mount Airy. He was born March 14, 1949, in Mount Airy and was a lifelong resident. He loved his hometown and spent his time with worthy causes and interests useful to his town and the wider world. Griggs sustained brain injury at birth...
Mrs. Margaret Fay Reece Moncus
Dec 20, 2011
Mrs. Margaret Faye Reece Moncus, 68 of Mt. Airy passed away Monday, December 19, 2011 at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Moncus was born in Surry County, October 3, 1943 to the late C. W. "Dock" and Ella Gunnell Reece. She was retired from Time Warner Cable and was a member of Northside Baptist Church. She is survived by...
Mr. Paige Delon Thompson
Dec 20, 2011
Mr. Paige Delon Thompson, age 66 of Mt. Airy, passed away Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Mr. Thompson was born in Surry County on April 2, 1945 to Walter William and Alice Holder Thompson. He was retired from Renfro Corp. Surviving is his devoted wife, Nancy Hooper Thompson of the home; sons and...
Ms. Catherine Jackson Gates
Dec 20, 2011
Ms. Martha Catherine Jackson Gates, 76, of Dobson passed from this life to Glory in the comfort of her home on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Surry County on February 1, 1935 to the late Culmer and Mary Dobbins Jackson. Ms. Gates was retired from the Surry County School System and a...
Claudia Annette Lyons Bowman
Dec 19, 2011
Mrs. Claudia Annette Lyons Bowman, 88, of Lambsburg, VA, passed away Monday, December 19, 2011, at Twin County Regional Hospital in Galax, VA. Mrs. Bowman was born April 2, 1923, in Carroll County, VA, to the late Cortez and Maggie Jarrell Lyons. She retired from the Carroll County School System, where she taught for over 30 years. She was a...
Margie Faye King Beck
Dec 19, 2011
Mrs. Margie Faye King Beck, 89, of Winston-Salem, passed away Monday, December 19, 2011, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Patsy and Mark Kistler, in Warren, OH. Mrs. Beck was born May 7, 1922, in Carroll County, VA, the daughter of the late Hosea and Virginia Elizabeth Leonard King. She diligently worked beside her husband until his death...
Irvin Donald Ward
Dec 18, 2011
Mr. Irvin Donald "Pete" Ward, 72, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Forsyth Medical Center as it was his time for his body to be at peace. Pete, as he was known, was born March 27, 1939, in Surry County, to the late Irvin Dewy "ID" Ward and Nina Cook Ward. He was a retired building contractor. A memorial...
Mrs. Julia Anderson Wells Jackson
Dec 18, 2011
Mrs. Julia Anderson Wells Jackson died December 18, 2011. She was born in Edgefield, SC on March 16, 1920, daughter of the late Mitchell Preston Wells and Julia Mason Anderson Wells. Her parents died when she was seven years old and she and an older brother made their home with their cousins, the John C. Anderson family of Erie, PA....
Margaret Elizabeth Norman Lovill
Dec 18, 2011
Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Norman Lovill, 89, of Asheboro, formerly of Mount Airy, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Brian Center Nursing Care in Lexington. Mrs. Lovill was born June 3, 1922, in Surry County, one of six children born to the late James and Sarah Caroline McCreary Norman. Margaret retired from Golden Age in Lexington. She is survived by...
Mr. Douglas Wayne Conner
Dec 18, 2011
Mr. Douglas Wayne Conner, age 50, of Stuart, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2011. He was born in Martinsville on April 20, 1961, and was preceded in death by his father, Donald Gray Conner. He had worked for the Virginia Department of Transportation and was a very hard worker. He was a good mechanic and was always working on something....
Nettie Ruth Bowman Bell
Dec 17, 2011
Mrs. Nettie Ruth Bowman Bell age 75 of Mt. Airy passed away Saturday December 17, 2011 at the Golden Living Nursing Center in Mt. Airy. Mrs. Bell was born April 2, 1936 in Surry County to the late John Avery and Stacy Ellar Edmonds Bowman, she was retired from Renfro Corporation and was of the Baptist Faith. Surviving are one...
Mrs. Norma Lee "Lou" Ring Swaim
Dec 17, 2011
Mrs. Norma Lee "Lou" Ring Swaim, age 89 of Mount Airy, passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born in Surry County on October 27, 1922 to the late Irvin Scott and Etta Caroline Patterson Ring. Mrs. Swaim owned Lou's Beauty Shop was a hairdresser for over 50 years; she retired only ten years ago....
Mrs. Iris Lovenia White Hayden
Dec 17, 2011
Mrs. Iris Lovenia White Hayden, 88 of Mt. Airy, passed away Saturday morning December 17, 2011 at Golden Living Center-Surry Community in Mt. Airy. Mrs. Hayden was born in Surry County, January 8, 1923 to the late Cephus William and Maggie Lee Rogers White. She was retired from Spencers Inc. and was a member of Piney Grove Baptist Church. After...
Mr. Anthony Lee Watson
Dec 16, 2011
Mr. Anthony Lee Watson, age 27 of Dobson passed away Friday, December 16, 2011. Mr. Watson was born in Surry County on February 16, 1984. Mr. Watson is survived by his mother and step father, Rhonda Kay Norman Atkins and Gurney of Dobson; father and step-mother, Timothy Wilton and Alisa Watson of SC; a sister, Ashley Watson and her fiancé,...
Mrs. Candis Ethelene Simmons Wilson
Dec 16, 2011
Mrs. Ethelene Simmons Wilson, age 90 of Pilot Mountain, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, December 16, 2011. Mrs. Wilson was born in Surry County on August 1, 1921 to Elzavan and Sophronia Jessup Simmons. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother who will be dearly missed by all her devoted family and friends. Surviving...
Peggy Ann Gravley Thomas
Dec 15, 2011
Mrs. Peggy Ann Gravley Thomas, 78, of 518 North Franklin Road, Mount Airy, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2011, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mrs. Thomas was born February 26, 1933, in Surry County, to the late Albert and Bertha A. Jones Gravley. She retired from Renfro Corporation and was of the Baptist faith. She...
Mr. Benny Ray Holt
Dec 15, 2011
Mr. Benny Ray Holt, age 59 of Stuart, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2011 at his home. He was born in Patrick County on October 22, 1952 to the late Harvey Lester Holt and Rachel Virginia Lawson Holt. Mr. Holt is survived by four sisters, Mildred Collins of Stuart, Ann Holt of Claudville, Barbara Brown of Claudville and Audrey Pendleton...
Mrs. Clara Joyce Flippin
Dec 15, 2011
Mrs. Clara Joyce Flippin, age 86 of Stuart, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2011 at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born in Stokes County, North Carolina on August 17, 1925. Mrs. Flippin was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis Flippin; her parents, Charlie Joyce and Linnie Hill Joyce Mills; and one brother, Rev. Weldon Joyce. She was a longtime...


