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Kerney Bernard Kepley

Kerney Bernard Kepley

Oct 21, 2006

Kerney Bernard Kepley, 99, of Centerclair Nursing Home and formerly of Turner Road, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006, at Centerclair Nursing Home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Holly Grove Lutheran Church by the Rev. John Mocko. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Kepley was born May 16, 1907, to Robert Leonard Kepley and Julia...

Julia Monica Smith

Julia Monica Smith

Oct 20, 2006

Julia Manca Smith, of Westover Drive, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2006, at Lexington Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by Father Albert J. Gondek. Burial will follow in Lexington City Cemetery. Mrs. Smith was born in Sandegne, Italy, to Antioco Manca and Grazia Lucci Manca. She was a homemaker and...

Betty Ann Mcbride

Betty Ann Mcbride

Oct 19, 2006

Betty Ann McBride, 60, of North Garfield Avenue, died Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006, at her home. The funeral will be today at 2 p.m. at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Craig Barnhill. Burial will follow in Lexington City Cemetery. Ms. McBride was born Nov. 17, 1945, in Davidson County to Robert Lee McBride and Lovie McBride. She...

Lois Porter

Lois Porter

Oct 18, 2006

Lois Lorene Koonts Porter, 82, of Lexington, died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston- Salem after a two-year illness. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Ed Sears. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Porter was born Sept. 15, 1924,...

Annie Lee Wilson Napier

Annie Lee Wilson Napier

Oct 16, 2006

Annie Lee Wilson Napier, 73, of Marion Circle, died Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva after several weeks of critical illness. The funeral will at 2 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by the Rev. Wade "Bud" Powell. Burial will be in Snider Cemetery in the Churchland community. Mrs. Wilson was born in Alamance...

Michael "Big Mike" Tysinger

Michael "Big Mike" Tysinger

Oct 13, 2006

Michael "Big Mike" Tysinger, 51, of Winston-Salem, died Friday, Oct. 13, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem after many years of illness. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Baptist Church, where he was a member, by Pastor Charles Tanner and the Rev. Alan Paschal. Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Park. Mr....

Carol Ann Ullrich Follenius

Carol Ann Ullrich Follenius

Oct 13, 2006

Carol Ann Ullrich Follenius, 62, died Friday, Oct. 13, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. The funeral will be Monday at 8 p.m. at Davidson Funeral Home-Hickory Tree Chapel by Father Albert J. Gondek. A graveside service will be held at a later date at Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Follenius was born Jan. 1, 1944, in Brooklyn,...

Mary Longworth Canter

Mary Longworth Canter

Oct 11, 2006

Mary Longworth Canter, 100, of King, died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, at Universal Home Care of King NC. The graveside service will be Monday at 2 p.m. at Gardens of Memory in Walkertown. The family will receive friends at the home of her daughter, Nancy Dobson, at 910 Old U.S. Highway 52 in King.

Belford Virginius Fefoe Wagner

Belford Virginius Fefoe Wagner

Oct 11, 2006

Belford Virginius deFoe Wagner, 88, of Lexington, died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, at his home. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Historic Chapel at Grace Episcopal Church, where he was a member, by the Rev. Tom King. Burial will follow at a 2:30 p.m. graveside service at Fairview Cemetery in Warrenton. Mr. Wagner was born...

Larry Gray Wafford Jr.

Larry Gray Wafford Jr.

Oct 10, 2006

Larry Gray Wafford Jr., 25, of Lexington, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006, at his home. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday (10/18/2006) at Davidson Funeral Home in Lexington by the Rev. Beverly Fulbright. Mr. Wafford was born March 30, 1981, in Davidson County to Larry Gray Wafford Sr. and Linda Gail Thomason Wafford. He was employed with...

Clell Batten Clodfelter

Clell Batten Clodfelter

Oct 10, 2006

Clell Batten Clodfelter, 93 of Eastside Dr., Lexington died Tuesday morning at Lexington Health Care after being in declining health for four years. Mr. Clodfelter was born in Davidson County on March 19, 1913 to William Lewis Clodfelter and Lora Lorena Conrad Clodfelter. He was a member of Second Reformed United Church of Christ and a past member of Pilgrim...

Doris Morris Burleyson

Doris Morris Burleyson

Oct 8, 2006

Doris Morris Burleyson, 63 of Pennington Avenue, Lexington, died Sunday morning in Forsyth Medical Center. Mrs. Burleyson was born December 7, 1942 in Montgomery County to Max Morris and Maxine Riley Morris. A homemaker, she was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by a brother, Roy Lee Morris, Sr. Survining are her husband Marvin Junior Burleyson of...

Lloyd Franklin Kepley

Lloyd Franklin Kepley

Oct 8, 2006

Lloyd Franklin Kepley, 85, of Lea Meadow Road, died Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday at Center United Methodist Church by the Rev. Clay Morgan. A private burial will be held in the Church Cemetery. Mr. Kepley was born April 13, 1921, in Davidson County to...

Ronald Theodore Cooper

Ronald Theodore Cooper

Oct 7, 2006

Ronald Theodore Cooper, 67, of Centerclair Nursing Home, formerly of Floyd Church Road, died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, at the nursing home. A private graveside service will be held at Forest Hill Memorial Park by the Rev. Wayne Knight. Mr. Cooper was born in Davidson County Feb. 3, 1939, to Homer Theodore Cooper and Annie Owens Cooper. He was a...

Robert Lee Willis

Robert Lee Willis

Oct 6, 2006

Robert Lee Willis, 71, of Riverview Boulevard, died Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at Lexington Memorial Hospital. The will be no memorial service or visitation. Mr. Willis was born in Sampson County June 22, 1935, to John Nayhum Willis and Zannie Jane Smith Willis. He was a retired brick mason with Allen Powell Construction. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Willis of...

Michael David Mahek

Michael David Mahek

Oct 5, 2006

Michael David “Buffalo” Mahek, 39 of Jamaica Drive, Lexington, went home to be with the Lord Thursday morning October 5, 2006. He was born on February 23, 1967, in Wilmington, Delaware to Michael and Janet Mahek. He is survived by his fiancée, Judy Hunt of the home, his mother Janet Mahek, of Lexington, his father & stepmother Michael and Elizabeth...

Barbara Myers Darnell

Barbara Myers Darnell

Oct 3, 2006

Barbara Myers Darnell, 64, of Pine Top Road, died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, at her home after an illness of 19 months. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at East End Baptist Church, where she was a member, by the Revs. Tim Gainey and Jerry Bowen. Burial will be in Forest Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Darnell was born...

Rev. John Hardy Huggins Sr.

Rev. John Hardy Huggins Sr.

Oct 2, 2006

Rev. John Hardy Huggins, Sr., 79 of Walnut Grove Rd., Linwood died Monday October 2, 2006 at his home after an illness of three weeks. Rev. Huggins was born in Marlboro County, SC on August 14, 1927 to John J. Huggins and Carrie Wilkes Huggins. He was a retired minister and also retired from Young Hinkle Furniture after 25 years...

Mary Koontz Leonard

Mary Koontz Leonard

Sep 30, 2006

Mary Magdalene Koontz Leonard, 94, of Old U.S. Highway 52, died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at her home. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Beulah United Church of Christ Cemetery by the Rev. Benn Fleming. Mrs. Leonard was born in Davidson County on Nov. 15, 1911, to Artis Lee Koontz and Mattie Lanier Koontz. She was...

Boyd Smith Swing, Sr.

Boyd Smith Swing, Sr.

Sep 28, 2006

Boyd Smith Swing Sr., 84, of Lexington, died Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, at his home. No public service will be held. Mr. Swing was born Sept. 14, 1922, in Davidson County to Robert C. Swing and Mattie Fritts Swing. He was a veteran of World War II in the Pacific Theater. He was a master brick and stone mason and...

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