Obituaries
Shirley Gail Wyatt
Oct 8, 2009
Shirley Gail Wyatt, 52 of State Road, passed away Thursday, October 8, 2009 at Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home. She was born on April 12, 1957 in Surry County to William Junior and Marie Money Coe, whom both preceded her in death. Ms. Wyatt was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church and worked at Harris Leather Shop. Ms....
Ruby Parks Pruitt
Sep 23, 2009
Ruby Beatrice Parks Pruitt, 94 of Traphill, passed away Wednesday, September 23, 2009. She was born December 12, 1914 in Wilkes County to Chye & Martha Ellen Handy Pruitt. Mrs. Pruitt was a member of Roaring River Methodist Church and attended Traphill Baptist Church. She worked as a dental hygienist for more than thirty years. Mrs. Pruitt was preceded in...
Zelma Key Newman
Sep 22, 2009
Zelma Fay Key Newman, 89, of Elkin passed away Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at Wilkes Regional Medical Center. She was born May 5, 1920 in Wilkes County to Robert and Bessie Terrell Key. Mrs. Newman was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and was a very talented seamstress and quilter. She was retired from Chatham Manufacturing. In addition to...
Stone Monroe Cooper
Sep 21, 2009
Stone Monroe Cooper, 98 of Jefferson, Georgia, passed away Monday, September 21, 2009. He was born November 15, 1910 in Surry County to Charles Augustus and Maude Deborde Cooper. Mr. Cooper was a member of Elkin Valley Baptist Church where he sang in the church choir for 72 years. He was also a member of the Elkin VFW Post 7794.....
Emma Jean Turnage
Sep 20, 2009
Emma Jean Turnage, 68 of Elkin, passed away Sunday Sept. 20, 2009 at Heritage Care of Elkin. Ms.Turnage was born April 3, 1941 in Meridian Mississippi to Edward Wilson Turnage, Sr. and Margaret Louisa May Turnage. She was retired from Tyson of Wilkesboro and was of the Episcopal Faith. Survivors include; two daughters, Joyce Hanks of Elkin, and Judy Biedrycki...
Lori Mae Yow
Sep 17, 2009
Lori Mae Yow, 45, of Thurmond, passed away Thursday September 17, 2009. She was born on September 21, 1963 in Bangor, Maine to Robert Tyrus and Betty Jean Marlow Yow. Ms. Yow was a graduate of Surry Community College where she completed the Nursing Assistant Program. She was a former physical therapy assistant at the Physical Therapy of Wilkes, a...
Glenn S. Burton
Sep 11, 2009
Mr. Glenn S. Burton, age 80, passed away Friday, September 11, 2009 in Wilkes Regional Medical Center. Mr. Burton was born October 17, 1928 in Surry County to Claude and Edith Sneed Burton. He was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and retired from Chatham Manufacturing and the Amoco station in Jonesville. In addition to his parents he was...
Vetrol Diamy Tucker
Sep 9, 2009
Vetrol Diamy Couch Tucker, 94 of Elkin, passed away Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 12 Oaks Assisted Living. She was born on August 24, 1915 in Wilkes County to Charles R. and Mary Bell Couch Darnell. Mrs. Tucker was retired from Chatham's and was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, where she was a Sunday School Teacher and a...
James Frank Luffman
Sep 7, 2009
James Frank Luffman, 77, of State Road, passed away Monday September 7, 2009 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He was born on October 3, 1931 in Wilkes County to Curtis & Lexie Harris Luffman. Mr. Luffman served in the US Navy from 1951 to 1955, and was retired from Vintage Yarn in Boonville. In addition to his parents,...
Dwayne Coe Hampton
Sep 6, 2009
Mr. Dwayne Coe Hampton, 65 of Elkin, passed away Sunday September 6, 2009 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He was born April 25, 1944 in Surry County to Wade and Dovie Coe Hampton. Mr. Hampton was a member of Friendship Baptist Church. He retired from Duke Power after 35 years of service. He was a kind hearted man with...
Nellie Miller Greene
Sep 5, 2009
Nellie Miller Greene died on September 6, 2009 at the age of 96 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Born May15, 1913, in Lafayette, Indiana, she was the fourth child of Edward Thomas Miller and Etta Kidwell Miller. In 1930 she married North Carolina native Ralph B. Greene. The marriage lasted 66 years until his death in 1996. They resided in Lafayette...
Holland Click Bauguess
Sep 5, 2009
Traphill, Mr. Holland Click Bauguess, age 73, of N. Lomax Road passed away Saturday, September 5, 2009 in Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. He was born November 20, 1935 in Wilkes County to William Click and Nancy Ethel Warren Bauguess. Mr. Bauguess was a member of Stony Ridge Baptist Church. In addition to his parents brothers Leon Horton Bauguess and...
Mabel C. Hash
Sep 3, 2009
Mabel Lee Crouse Combs Hash, 87, passed away Thursday, September 3, 2009 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. She was born on December 19, 1921 in Alleghany County to George Letcher and Pearl Leota Andrews Crouse. Mrs. Hash was a member of Jonesville Pentecostal Holiness Church. She retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia on August 1,...
Mabel Lee Hash
Sep 3, 2009
Mabel Lee Crouse Combs Hash, 87, passed away Thursday, September 3, 2009 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. She was born on December 19, 1921 in Alleghany County to George Letcher and Pearl Leota Andrews Crouse. Mrs. Hash was a member of Jonesville Pentecostal Holiness Church. She retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia on August 1,...
Mabel Absher Spicer
Aug 31, 2009
Mabel Absher Spicer, age 77, of Austin-Little Mtn. Road passed away Monday, August 31, 2009 in Wilkes Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Spicer was born March 20, 1932 in Wilkes County to Carl and Erma Watson Absher. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Albert Spicer, daughter Kathy Spicer, sisters Ann Luffman and Rosa Lee...
Toliver Leff Sexton
Aug 29, 2009
Mr. Toliver Leff Sexton, age 60, of Granny Hill Lane, passed away Saturday, August 29, 2009 in Forsyth Medical Center. Mr. Sexton was born November 12, 1948 in Wilkes County to Mckinley Leff and Mamie Lyon Sexton. He was of the Baptist Faith. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a brother Kenneth Sexton. Survivors include...
Vera Baker Southard
Aug 19, 2009
Elkin Mrs. Vera Baker Southard, age 91, of Elkin, passed away Wednesday, August 19, 2009 in Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. Mrs. Baker was born December 2, 1917 in Surry County to James & Rosa Venable Baker. Mrs. Southard was a member of Bessie's Chapel Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of...
Ernest Paul Crouse
Aug 18, 2009
Elkin, Mr. Ernest Paul Crouse, age 82, of Elkin, passed away, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at Heritage Healthcare. Mr. Crouse was born May 12, 1927 in Wilkes County to George Washington & Nancy Lyon Crouse. Mr. Crouse was retired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation and he was a member of Center Baptist Church and he enjoyed volunteering for...
William Leslie Cox
Aug 17, 2009
Elkin Mr. William Leslie Cox, age 88, Elkin passed away Monday, August 17, 2009 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Mr. Cox was born December 17, 1920 in Forsyth County to Eli & Ida Matlock Cox. Mr. Cox was a member of Antioch Methodist Church of Roaring Gap. He attended NCSU after which he enlisted in the United States Marines where...
Mark Worth Wood
Aug 15, 2009
Thurmond, Mr. Mark Worth Wood, age 54, passed away Saturday, August 15, 2009 in Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Mr. Wood was born on July 13, 1955 in Surry County to Hermit Worth and Virginia Dare Walker Wood. Mr. Wood was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and employed with Perdue Farms. He was also a member of the...
Subscribe
Subscribe to get alerts on new obituaries
