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Minnie Barker Craver

Minnie Barker Craver

Nov 20, 2006

Minnie Barker Craver, 82, of Star Drive, died Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, at Britthaven of Davidson in Thomasville. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Second Reformed United Church of Christ, where she was a very active member, by the Revs. Jerry Moore and Kelly Barefoot. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Craver was born...

Esther Wyatte Queen

Esther Wyatte Queen

Nov 19, 2006

Eva Esther Wyatte Queen, 100 of Sowers Road, Linwood died Sunday morning in Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Mrs. Queen was born in Davidson County on October 3, 1906 to William Wyatte and Mary Eliza Veach Wyatte. She was a homemaker. Her husband, R. Webster Queen preceded her in death on July 20, 1968 and daughters, Martha Amendolea and...

Shirley Younts Wampler

Shirley Younts Wampler

Nov 18, 2006

Shirley K. Younts Wampler, 64, of Hargrave Street, died Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center. The funeral will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by Bishop Dennis Watts. Burial will be at 2 p.m. in Salisbury National Cemetery. Mrs. Wampler was born Oct. 12, 1942, in Davidson County to Jefferson Odell Younts and...

Lucile "Lucy" Griffin Leonard

Lucile "Lucy" Griffin Leonard

Nov 18, 2006

Lucile "Lucy" Griffin Leonard, 85, of Brian Center, formerly of Ridgewood Drive, died Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, at Brian Center. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church, where she was a member, by the Rev. Carl Lindquist. Burial will be in Lexington City Cemetery. Mrs. Leonard was born Nov. 28, 1920, in Lee County...

Edward Willis Goodman

Edward Willis Goodman

Nov 18, 2006

Edward Willis Goodman, 77, of Williams Street, died Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, at Lexington Health Care. The funeral will be at 7:30 tonight at Mount Carmel Freewill Baptist Church by the Revs. Darrell Cartrette and Doug McGee. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the church cemetery. Mr. Goodman was born Oct. 28, 1929, in Forsyth County to Roy...

Lola Mize Huffman

Lola Mize Huffman

Nov 17, 2006

Lola Mize Huffman, 84, of SunBridge of Lexington, formerly of West Center Street Extension, died Friday, Nov. 17, 2006, at SunBridge. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Edgar Armfield. Mrs. Huffman was born in Davidson County on Feb. 27, 1922, to George Henderson Mize and Drucilla Hanes Mize. She...

Mary Harvey

Mary Harvey

Nov 15, 2006

Mary Cross Harvey, 84, of Sunnyside Drive, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Vernon Richmeier. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Harvey was born in Davidson County Sept. 4, 1922, to Peter...

Joe Trexler

Joe Trexler

Nov 14, 2006

Joseph "Joe" Alexander Trexler Jr., 82, of N.C. Highway 47, died Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006, at Centerclair of Lexington. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Reformed United Church of Christ, where he was a member, by the Rev. Mike Hooper. Burial will be in Beck's Reformed Cemetery with military graveside rites by VFW Post 3074. Mr....

Linda Hendrix Sager

Linda Hendrix Sager

Nov 13, 2006

Linda Kay Hendrix McDowell Sager, 50, of Manhattan Drive, went home to be with her Lord Monday, Nov. 13, 2006, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home after a courageous battle with cancer since 2004. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Good Hope United Methodist Church by Pastor Sam Harvey. Burial will be in the church cemetery....

Thomas John Beighley

Thomas John Beighley

Nov 12, 2006

Thomas John Beighley, 39, of Lexington, died Sunday, Nov. 12, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church by Dr. Lee Zehmer and Moe Chilton. Mr. Beighley was born Nov. 25, 1966, in Anne Arundel County, Md., to Melvin Francis Beighley and Constance Ruckus Beighley. Surviving are his wife...

Margaret Wyatt March

Margaret Wyatt March

Nov 12, 2006

Margaret Wyatt March passed away on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2006, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Center in Winston-Salem. She was born on March 10, 1922, in Charlotte to James Henry and Amy Nivens Wyatt. In 1943, she married James Harold March Sr., who preceded her in death in 1998. Surviving are two daughters, Wanda Schock of Yadkinville and Carolyn...

John "Johnny" Russell Pearce

John "Johnny" Russell Pearce

Nov 9, 2006

John "Johnny" Russell Pearce, 70, of Grimes Boulevard, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, at High Point Regional Hospital after five months of declining health. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Coggins Memorial Baptist Church by the Rev. David Shaffer. Entombment will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mr. Pearce was born Feb. 19, 1936, in Franklin County...

"Dick" Cicero Richard Wrenn Jr.

"Dick" Cicero Richard Wrenn Jr.

Nov 9, 2006

Cicero Richard "Dick" Wrenn Jr., 59, of Cotton Grove Road, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem after a sudden illness. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Antioch Baptist Church, which he attended, by the Rev. Roy Queen. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Wrenn was born Jan. 20, 1947, in...

Christine Smith Trantham

Christine Smith Trantham

Nov 8, 2006

Christine Smith Trantham, 92, of Centerclair Nursing Home, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, at Centerclair Nursing Home after five years of declining health. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Edgar Armfield Jr. Burial will be in Cotton Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Trantham was born in Davidson County...

James Walter Lawter, Sr.

James Walter Lawter, Sr.

Nov 7, 2006

James Walter Lawter Sr., 72, of West Center Street Extension, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, at his home after three years of illness. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Freedom Baptist Church, where he was a member, by the Rev. Clyde Akers. Burial will be in Lexington City Cemetery. Mr. Lawter was born July 29, 1934, in...

George Hormer Koonts Jr.

George Hormer Koonts Jr.

Nov 7, 2006

George Homer Koonts Jr., 63, of Hamlet Avenue, Carolina Beach, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, at New Hanover Regional Hospital in Wilmington after a sudden illness. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Shiloh United Methodist Church by the Rev. Michael Greer. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Koonts was born in Davidson County on Dec....

Phillip "Buddy" Williams

Phillip "Buddy" Williams

Nov 6, 2006

Philip Aaron "Buddy" Williams, 60, of Old U.S. Highway 52, Welcome, died Monday, Nov. 6, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem after six years of declining health. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Revs. Roger Shull and Dan Walser. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mr. Williams...

Jean Nelson Plyler

Jean Nelson Plyler

Nov 6, 2006

Jean Nelson Plyler, 79, of City Lake Road, died Monday, Nov. 6, 2006, at Chesapeake General Hospital in Chesapeake, Va., after a critical illness of one week. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by Edsel Gordon. Mr. Plyler was born in Lancaster County, S.C., Tabernacle community, to Bundy Braxton Plyler and...

Nancy Streetman Beck

Nancy Streetman Beck

Nov 5, 2006

Nancy Elizabeth Streetman Beck, 73, of Carolina House of Lexington, formerly of Fairview Drive, died Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006, at Carolina House after declining health of five months. The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Jim Martin. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Beck was born in...

Queen Rebecca Doulin Jordan

Queen Rebecca Doulin Jordan

Nov 5, 2006

Queen Rebecca Doulin Jordan, 77, of Walltown Street, died Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006, at her home. A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at New Life SDA Church, where she was a member, by Pastor Marsena Davis and Elder Donald Belton. Mrs. Jordan was born May 6, 1929, in Davie County to John Thomas Doulin and Ester Chaplain...

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