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Horace "Pete" Tysinger
Mar 2, 2016
DATE LINE: Lexington, NC EDITION: Friday, March 4, 2016 HEADING NAME: Pete Tysinger Horace “Pete” Tysinger, age 76 of Friendship Church Road, Lexington passed away Wednesday morning March 2, 2016 at his home. A memorial service will be held 4:00 pm Saturday, March 5, 2016 in the Davidson Funeral Home Lexington Chapel with Rev. Henry Watterson officiating. The family will...
David Lee Mcferrin
Mar 2, 2016
David Lee McFerrin 54 passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. A celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 AM at Center Grove Baptist Church on Saturday, March 12, 2016 with Pastor Steve Corts officiating. David was born in Norfolk, VA on May 19, 1961 to Marion Napoleon McFerrin and Mattie Rae Crickman McFerrin....
Willie Ruth Sharpe Leonard
Mar 2, 2016
Willie Ruth Sharpe Leonard, 90, of Grimes Circle, passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Hinkle Hospice House. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday, March 7, 2016, at Davidson Funeral Home with the Rev. Elizabeth Horton officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home...
William Arvil Dunbar, Jr.
Mar 2, 2016
William Arvil Dunbar Jr., 44, of Twelve Oaks Drive, died Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at his home. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sunday, March 6, 2016, at Freedom Baptist Church with Preacher Clyde Akers officiating. The family will receive friends at 190 Pineland Avenue, afterwards for those who cannot make the service. Mr. Dunbar was born January 22,...
James Shaw
Mar 1, 2016
James Stanley Shaw, age 68, of Denton, NC passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the Hinkle Hospice House in Lexington, NC. A funeral service will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the Davidson Funeral Home Chapel in Lexington, NC with Preacher Clyde Akers officiating. Entombment will follow in the Forest Hill Memorial Park mausoleum....
Wendy Nicole Meachum Proctor
Feb 28, 2016
Wendy Nicole Meachum Proctor, 31, of Hayfield Lane, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. A memorial service will be 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Len Bunce officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at 5...
Allen Willard Temple
Feb 28, 2016
Allen Willard Temple, 81, of Arden Road, died Sunday, February 28, 2016, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at First Alliance Church, where he was a member, with Pastor Paul Titus officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home Tuesday,...
Billy Shannon Hall
Feb 28, 2016
Billy Shannon Hall, age 79 of Louya Road Lexington passed away Sunday afternoon February 28, 2016 at his home. Funeral service will be held 2:00 pm Wednesday March 2, 2016 at Psalm 91 Church with Rev. Max Shoaf and Rev. Jack Stoner officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at the church from 1:00...
Julius "Carroll" Nifong
Feb 28, 2016
Julius “Carroll” Nifong 77 of Winston-Salem passed away Sunday afternoon at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. No services or visitation will be held at his request. Carroll was born in Davidson County December 26, 1938 to Grady Alfred and Blanche Hepler Nifong. He was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife, Katheryn Ledbetter Nifong. Memorials...
Jimmy Clyde Merritt
Feb 27, 2016
Jimmy Clyde Merritt age 76 of Charlie Hinkle Road, Lexington passed away Saturday afternoon February 27, 2016 at Hinkle Hospice. A funeral service will be at 3;00 pm Tuesday March 1, 2016 at First Baptist Church of Thomasville where he was a member, conducted by Revs. Barry Surratt and Bynum Orr and burial to follow at Forest Hill Memorial Park...
Douglas Eugene Briggs
Feb 27, 2016
Douglas E. Briggs was born February 17th, 1943 in Davidson County, NC to James Robert and Virginia Hedrick Briggs. He was a graduate of North Davidson High School. Doug was a retired master craftsman, he had a love for building and constructed many homes throughout Davidson and Forsyth counties and was well respected. Anyone that knew Doug would say he...
Donald Louis Stovall
Feb 26, 2016
Donald Louis Stovall, 78, of Sherwood Road, died Friday, February 26, 2016, at Hinkle Hospice House. A private graveside service will be held at a later date. Mr. Stovall was born February 4, 1938, in Anderson County, SC, to Ralph Carlton Stovall and Grace Tiller Stovall. He served in the US Army and was a police officer for Shallotte Police...
Perline Watkins Snyder
Feb 26, 2016
Perline Watkins Snyder, age 83 of Hill Street, Thomasville passed away Friday afternoon February 26, 2016 at Pine Ridge Nursing Home. Funeral service will be held 2:00 pm Tuesday March 1, 2016 in the Davidson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Eddie Mishoe officiating and burial will follow at Arrington Heights Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends...
Gary Hedrick
Feb 25, 2016
Gary Boyd Hedrick, 67, of the North Carolina Veteran’s Home, Black Mountain, died Thursday, February 25, 2016, at the home. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Hedrick’s Grove Reformed United Church of Christ, with the Rev. William Sowers and Chaplain Jack Taylor officiating. Inurnment with military graveside rites conducted by Davidson County Honor Guard will...
Gary Hedrick
Feb 25, 2016
Gary Boyd Hedrick, 67, of the North Carolina Veteran’s Home, Black Mountain, died Thursday, February 25, 2016, at the home. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Hedrick’s Grove Reformed United Church of Christ, with the Rev. William Sowers and Chaplain Jack Taylor officiating. Inurnment with military graveside rites conducted by Davidson County Honor Guard will...
Bobbe Anderson Conrad
Feb 25, 2016
Bobbe Anderson Conrad died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at Piedmont Crossing in Thomasville. She was 86. Conrad was born in the spring of 1929 to Robert Leo and Thelma Hedrick Anderson in Lexington, N.C. Raised with her two sisters in Hedrick’s Grove, she grew into a tall and striking woman, playing high school basketball for Davis Townsend Consolidated High School...
Gary Hedrick
Feb 25, 2016
Gary Boyd Hedrick, 67, of the North Carolina Veteran’s Home, Black Mountain, died Thursday, February 25, 2016, at the home. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Hedrick’s Grove Reformed United Church of Christ, with the Rev. William Sowers and Chaplain Jack Taylor officiating. Inurnment with military graveside rites conducted by Davidson County Honor Guard will...
Thelma Trent
Feb 24, 2016
Thelma Jean Mae Dotson Trent, 70, of Junior Order Home Road, died Wednesday, February 24, 2016, at Wake Forest Baptist Health – Lexington Medical Center, following an automobile accident. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday at Lexington Church of God, where she was a member, with the Revs. Rodney Merrill, Todd Kiger and David Hatcher officiating. Burial will follow...
Paul Thomas Mcquay
Feb 23, 2016
Paul Thomas McQuay, age 75 of Lexington passed away Tuesday evening February 23, 2016 at his home after a period of declining health. It was his request to be cremated and no services held. Davidson Funeral Home is assisting the McQuay family. Online Condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net
Jimmy Donald Johnson
Feb 22, 2016
Jimmy Donald Johnson, 65, passed away Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 in Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. A Celebration of Life will be held at 6:00 pm Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 at Freedom Baptist Church with Preacher Clyde Akers officiating. The family will receive friends from 5-6 pm, just prior to the service and other times at their respective homes. Mr....
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