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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
Mr. Anthony Dale "Tony" Morris, 43, of 180 Laurel Creek Drive, Mount Airy, passed away Monday morning, March 1, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mr. Morris was born July 18, 1966, in Fort Hood, TX, son of Hayward L. Morris and the late Juanita Ferrell Morris. Tony was the vice president of Applied Polymerics...
Ms. Mildred Faye McHone Watson, 66, of 236 Badgett Avenue, Mount Airy, passed away Monday, March 1, 2010, at the home of her daughter, Jennifer Love. She was born April 8, 1943, in Surry County, to Frances Hall McHone and the late Foy McHone, Sr. She was a retired beautician, having worked last at Fantastic Sam's in King, and was...
Mrs. Bobbie Dale Rose Davis, 61, of Dobson, passed away Monday, March 1, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mrs. Davis was born October 30, 1948, in Surry County, to the late Robert Starling and Mabel Marie Boyd Rose. She was an employee with Lowes Foods for 37 years and a member of Antioch Baptist...
Mr. Daryl Reid Davidson, age 71 of Gastonia, North Carolina, passed away Monday, March 1, 2010 at the Blue Ridge Nursing Center in Stuart. He was born in Gaston County, North Carolina to the late Fred and Nettie Skidmore Davidson. In addition to his parents, Mr. Davidson was preceded in death by one brother, Clarence Davidson. He was a retired...
Mrs. Cramer Norman Gentry, 65, of Columbus Lane, Elkin, entered into eternal rest on Sunday, February 28, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home, with her loving family by her bedside. Mrs. Gentry was born May 9, 1944, in Surry County, to the late Joseph Early and Ora Ellen Adams Norman. She was formerly employed by West Point...
Mrs. Opal Victoria Wolfe Carpenter, 89, widow of Mr. Peston Emmit Carpenter, of Mount Airy, passed away at Central Continuing Care on Sunday, February 28, 2010. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Surry County on March 14, 1920, to the late Willie and Huldah Davis Wolfe. She was retired from Spencer's Incorporated and a faithful member of Blues Grove Baptist Church...
Mr. Arvil "Bud" Lee Johnson, 69, of Mount Airy, passed away Sunday, February 28, 2010, at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Mr. Johnson was born October 1, 1940, in Surry County, to Elbert Troy and Surrilda Ferguson Johnson. He was warm, loving and devoted to his family. Bud was an avid fisherman. Surviving are his loving wife, Linda Butcher Johnson...
Mrs. Lucy West Harris, age 86 of Stuart passed away Saturday morning at Pioneer Community Hospital in Stuart. She was born on April 24, 1923 in Patrick County to the late Andrew Elridge West and Ada Martin West. In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by two sisters, Maude and Chloe West; four brothers, Isaac, Russell,...
Mr. James William Utt, 78, of 477 North Franklin Road, Mount Airy, went home to be with his heavenly father on Saturday, February 27, 2010, at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mr. Utt was born February 11, 1932, in Surry County, to the late Ed and Evelyn Tate Utt. He was a retired truck driver from...
Mrs. Peggy Ann Jacobs, age 63 of Patrick Springs passed away Saturday evening at the Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC. She was born on Nov. 10, 1946 in Grundy, VA to the late John Henry Looney and Ada Mae Wagner Looney. In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by a sister, Juanita McClanahan. Surviving are...
Joyce Canady Baker died Saturday, February 27, 2010, at Margate in Jefferson. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Thelma Hill Canady and James Benjamin Canady. She was born November 7, 1944, in Morehead City. Joyce grew up in Charlotte and graduated from Meredith College. She worked for the American Psychological Association for many years in Washington,...
Miss Barbara Belle Horton, 90, of Fancy Gap, VA, passed away Friday, February 26, 2010, at Twin County Regional Hospital in Galax, VA. Miss Horton was born September 5, 1919, in Carroll County, VA, to Orville Anderson and Ada Mae Webb Horton. She was a retired nursing assistant and a member of Skyview Baptist Church. Surviving are a sister, Ila...
Mrs. Evangeline Lawson Tickle, 77, of 1476 Edgewood Drive, Mount Airy, wife of the late Floyd F. Tickle, passed away Friday night, February 26, 2010, at her home. Mrs. Tickle was born March 23, 1932, in Surry County, to the late Walter C.R. Lawson and Bertha Eaton Lawson. She was retired from Renfro Corporation and was of the Baptist faith....
Mr. Edward Carson Hill, 83, of Mount Airy, passed away Friday, February 26, 2010, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Mr. Hill was born February 8, 1927, in Stokes County, to Edward Verlin and Celia Humphries Hill. He served our country in the United States Army during the Korean War. Surviving are his loving wife of 56 years, Betty Throckmorton...
Mr. Foy Winfred "Sandy" Tate, 78, of 1473 Simpson Mill Road, Mount Airy, passed away Friday, February 26, 2010, at his home. He was born January 3, 1932, in Surry County, to the late John Emmett Tate and Vesta Leftwich Tate Richardson. He was the former owner and operator of Sandy's Knitting Company and was a member of New Charity...