Vera Gladys Gentry Goings
Mar 8, 2010
Mrs. Vera Gladys Gentry Goings, 92, of Mount Airy, passed away Monday, March 8, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. She was born December 15, 1917, in Surry County, to the late Rennie and Jane Nixon Gentry. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and a friend to all. She was a retired employee...
Rebecca Wall McCann
Mar 8, 2010
Mrs. Rebecca Ann Wall McCann, 71, of Dobson, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Monday, March 8, 2010. She was born in Surry County on March 2, 1939, to the late William McKinley and Dulcie Scott Wall. She was a retired computer technician from AT&T and a faithful member of Salem Fork Baptist Church. Becky was always willing to...
Madge Sylvia Gunter Gunnell
Mar 8, 2010
Ms. Madge Sylvia Gunter Gunnell, 89, of Ararat, passed away Monday, March 8, 2010, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. Gunnell was born May 20, 1920, in Surry County, to the late James Charlie and Bertha Southern Gunter. She retired as a secretary from Surry Community College. She was a member of Rock Hill Baptist Church and was a...
Mr. Gaylon Kenneth Sowers
Mar 8, 2010
Mr. Gaylon Kenneth Sowers, age 81 of Stuart, passed away Monday, March 8, 2010 at the Blue Ridge Nursing Center in Stuart. He was born in Roanoke County on November 21, 1928 to the late John S. and Nova Belcher Sowers. He had served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict, and was retired from United Elastic Corporation....
Shirley Anne Johnson Bowman
Mar 7, 2010
Mrs. Shirley Anne Johnson Bowman, 80, of Radford, VA, passed away Sunday, March 7, 2010, at her daughter's home in Radford, VA. Mrs. Bowman was born in Sharon, PA, to Wallace Allen and Myra Daugherty Johnson. She was a dance instructor in Mount Airy for many years and an owner-operator of Bo-S-Aire in Anderson, SC. Surviving are a daughter and...
Mr. Timothy Allen Slate
Mar 6, 2010
Mr. Timothy Allen Slate, 52, of Claudville, VA. passed away Saturday morning at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital. He was born February 5, 1958 to the late Lemley and Sally Hall Slate. Mr. Slate was also preceded in death by a sister; Margie Moorefield, he was a truck driver for H & W Trucking Company and was of the Baptist...
Mrs. Delene Hope Fain Curry
Mar 5, 2010
Mrs. Delene Hope Fain Curry, age 49 of Stuart, passed away Friday, March 5, 2010 as the results of an automobile accident in Patrick County. She was born on September 21, 1960 in Danbury, North Carolina. Mrs. Curry is preceded in death by her mother, Paula Juanita McPeak Fain. She had worked at Results in Stuart, and attended Stuart United...
William Wright Brown
Mar 5, 2010
Mr. William Wright "Bill" Brown, 61, of 4430 Friends Mission Road, Ararat, VA, passed away Friday morning, March 5, 2010, at his home. Mr. Brown was born April 29, 1948, in McDowell County, WV, son of the late William Hubbard Brown, Jr. and Martha McMillian Brown. Bill owned and operated Brown Logging for many years. He is survived by a...
Nancy Thompson Swaim
Mar 5, 2010
Ms. Nancy Thompson Swaim, 69, of Yadkinville, passed away unexpectedly on Friday March 5, 2010 at Yadkin Nursing Care Center. She was born in Surry County on June 17, 1940 to the late Zeb Vance and Claudine Hanks Thompson. She is survived by two brothers and sisters-in-law, Wayne and Charlene Thompson and Vance and Betty Thompson all of Elkin and...
Ima Faye Dickerson Jones
Mar 5, 2010
Ima Faye Dickerson Jones, 85, of Universal Health Care, King, died Friday, March 5, 2010, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. She was born in Surry County, October 31, 1924, to the late Squire and Ida Carico Dickerson. Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by her husband, George H. Jones, Sr.; a brother, Jack Dickerson; a sister, Betty Ann Livengood;...
James Wesley Scales
Mar 4, 2010
Mr. James Wesley "Jimmy" Scales, 64, of Ararat, VA, passed away Thursday, March 4, 2010, at his home. Mr. Scales was born March 29, 1945, in Patrick County, VA, to the late Jefferson Davis Scales, Sr. and Gladys Gates Scales. He was a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War and retired from Wayne Farms. He was a member of the...
Charlotte Electra Golden Spurlin
Mar 4, 2010
Mrs. Charlotte Electra Golden Spurlin, 88, of 219 Laurel Street, Lowgap, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 4, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. She was born April 1, 1921, in Surry County, to the late Rufus and Dora Upchurch Golden. She was a retired textile worker and a homemaker. Mrs. Spurlin...
Josie Alma Hamlin
Mar 2, 2010
Miss Josie Alma Hamlin, 87, of Dobson, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Yadkin Nursing Care Center, Inc. Miss Hamlin was born in Surry County, April 27, 1922, to the late Claude William and Minnie Poindexter Hamlin. She was a retired inspector from Chatham Manufacturing after 42 years of service and a faithful member of Salem Baptist...
Hugh Arestus Childress
Mar 2, 2010
Mr. Hugh Arestus Childress, 86, of Thurmond, passed away Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. He was born in Yadkin County, February 20, 1924, to the late Jessie Alonzo and Martha Jane Edwards Childress. Mr. Childress was retired form Newman Brothers Well Drilling and a faithful member of Charity Hill Baptist Church, where he served on the...
Mrs. Evelyn Allene Harmon Bishop
Mar 2, 2010
Mrs. Evelyn Allene Harmon Bishop, age 79 of Martinsville, and formerly of Bassett, passed away Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at the Blue Ridge Rehabilitation Center in Martinsville. She was born in Mercer County, West Virginia to the late Wilbern and Annie A. Walker Harmon. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Bishop; one...
Stacy Bledsoe Jenkins
Mar 2, 2010
Mrs. Stacy Bledsoe Jenkins, 89, a former resident of Elkin Healthcare, died Tuesday, March 2, 2010. She was born in Surry County, June 11, 1920, to the late John and Neva Dinkins Bledsoe. She was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Dobson. Stacy was preceded in death by her husband, Milton Jenkins; a sister; and eight brothers. Survivors...
Joseph Columbus Guynn
Mar 2, 2010
Mr. Joseph Columbus "J.C." Guynn, 99 and 8 months, of 2202 Lighting Ridge Road, Fancy Gap, VA, passed away Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Golden Living Center in Mount Airy. Mr. Guynn was born June 6, 1910, in Carroll County, VA. He was a retired farmer and a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church. Surviving are nine grandchildren; twenty-four great-grandchildren;...
Roger Dowell Culler
Mar 2, 2010
Mr. Roger Dowell Culler, 61, of 1808 McBride Road, Mount Airy, passed away Tuesday night, March 2, 2010, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Mr. Culler was born March 4, 1948, in Surry County, son of the late Frank Scales and Virginia Evelyn Slate Culler. Roger was a retired tobacco farmer and a member of Flippin Memorial Baptist Church. He...
Linnie Irene Houck Beck
Mar 2, 2010
Mrs. Linnie Irene Houck Beck of Ararat, VA, passed away Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. Beck was born February 27, 1949, in Surry County, to Alonzo and Madge Lawson Houck. She was a member of Genesis Full Gospel Church. Surviving are four daughters and sons-in-law, Sharon and Wayne Puckett, Karen and Wayne Parker, and...
Jessie Virginia Sutphin Loftis
Mar 1, 2010
Mrs. Jessie Virginia Sutphin Loftis, 92, of Mount Airy, passed away Monday morning, March 1, 2010, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mrs. Loftis was born October 24, 1917, in Surry County, daughter of the late Walter and Mary Jettie Kirkman Sutphin. She was married for 74 years to her loving and devoted husband, E.J. "June" Loftis, Jr. She is...