Obituaries
Luther Martin Byrd
Oct 20, 2009
Luther Martin Byrd, 87, of Ronda passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. He was born November 1, 1921 in Wilkes County to James Thomas & Lessie Mae Jolly Byrd. Mr. Byrd was a member of Little Elkin Baptist Church and was a minister of music and youth at Ronda First Baptist Church for 18 years....
Ralph Delmar Couch
Oct 20, 2009
Ralph Delmar Couch, 80, of Elkin, passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at his home. He was born March 19, 1929 in Yadkin County to Worth and Esther Reece Couch. Mr. Couch was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. He served in the US Army during the Korean War and retired from Abitibi. In addition to his parents, Mr....
Mack Arthur Settle
Oct 19, 2009
Mack Aurthur Settle, 83, of State Road, passed away Monday, October 19, 2009. He was born July 30, 1926 in Wilkes County to Clifton and Flossie Lyons Settle. Mr. Settle was a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in State Road. He served in the US Army during WWII in Germany, and retired as a building contractor. In addition to...
Beatrice Money Mounce
Oct 16, 2009
Mrs. Ina Beatrice Money Mounce, age 86, passed away suddenly Friday, October 16, 2009 in her home. She was born November 28, 1922 in Surry County to Worth and Sally Smith Money. Mrs. Mounce was a loving wife, mother, and friend. She was a graduate of Elkin City Schools and was a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church and was...
Naoma Kassay Olinger
Oct 16, 2009
Naoma Kassay Olinger, 65, of State Road, passed away Friday, October 16, 2009 in Britthaven of Wilkesboro. She was born on March 27, 1944 in Camp Creek, West Virginia to Steve and Nell Stevenson Kassay. Mrs. Olinger was a member of the Elkin Jacette and was a volunteer for Elkin City School. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Olinger was...
Vivian Rose Durham
Oct 15, 2009
Vivian Rose Durham, 67, of Roaring River, passed away Thursday, October 15, 2009 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. She was born in Wilkes County to Cortez and Lura Pruitt Wiles and was a member of New Light Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Durham was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Wayne Durham; three brothers,...
Rebecca Williams Gilliam
Oct 15, 2009
Rebecca Williams Gilliam, 94, of Elkin, passed away Thursday, October 15, 2009 at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center. She was born August 31, 1915 in Union County to Thomas Marsh and Wilma Helms Williams. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Elkin and was a member of the Fidelis Sunday School class. She was also a charter member of...
Patricia Clark Robinson
Oct 10, 2009
Patricia Clark Robinson, 75 of Yadkinville, passed away Saturday, October 10, 2009 at Hoots Memorial Hospital. She was born June 1, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois to Edward Allen & Elsie Ellen Catner Clark. Mrs. Robinson was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and was employed at Food Lion until 2008. In 2005, at the age of 71, she received...
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...
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...
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...
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