Obituaries

Kannapolis - Kenneth Ray Tucker, age 46 of 5403 Crofton Ave died on Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Alamance County. He was born November 4, 1959 in McCook, NE to the late Delbert Tucker and Shirley Brown Tucker who survives. Kenneth was an employee of Evernham Motorsports and was a member of NASCAR. Survivors include mother,...

Burlington - Mrs. Josephine Jo Starnes Blackwell, 77, of 1317 Vaughn Rd. passed away Monday, September 3, 2007 at her residence. Mrs. Blackwell was born November 24, 1929 in Alamance County to the late Willie F. Shorty Starnes and Lillian Culberson Starnes. She was the wife of Mr. Lynn Blackwell of the home for 60 years....

Everett Milton Austin, 82, of 406 Trail two passed away Sunday, May 27, 2007 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Mr. Austin was born January 16, 1925 in Union, County to the Bertis Milton and Mary Perry Austin. He was married to late Frances Brincefield Austin who preceded him in 2001. He worked for Western...

Burlington, NC Lonzie Lovette Kernodle, age 93, of 3603 Danieley Water Wheel Road went home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 22, 2006 at the Hospice Home. A native of Alamance County and the son of the late Joseph Anderson and Eliza Jane Faucette Kernodle. Lonzie retired from Kayser Roth Hosiery and was a...

Burlington, NC Selma Kimbro Enoch, age 87, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, December 29, 2006 at Alamance Health Care. She was a native of Caswell County and the wife of the late Charlie Ross Enoch. Selma was a homemaker and a member of Glen Hope Baptist Church. She was a loving and...

Virginia Blanche Fogleman Norwood Gentry, 77, of 578 Pimlico Circle died suddenly at Cone Hospital, Wednesday, October 26, 2005. She was the daughter of the late Clinton Dennis and Minnie Esther Moser Fogleman. A native of Guilford County and graduate of Nathaniel Greene High School, she was retired from the Guilford County Prison Farm and worked...

Katherine Walker Gentry, 86, of 108 Trinity Dr. passed away Sunday June 18, 2006 at Liberty Commons Nursing Center after several years of failing health and one week critical illness. She was the wife of Herbert Howard Gentry and they enjoyed sixty-two years of marriage. She was the daughter of the late Oscar T. and Laura...

Burlington, NC A remarkable man has gone home to be with his Lord and his loved ones who have gone before. Allen Alfred Iseley was born June 28, 1919 to Jerome and Mary Ross Iseley on the same Alamance County farm on which he died, Monday, July 10, 2006. He was preceded in death by his...

Vera Smith Garner, 72, formerly of Holts Store Rd. passed away Thursday, April 19, 2007 at The Golden Living Center. She was the wife of the late Boyce Ernest Garner and the daughter of the late William Henry and Jessie Lee Saunders Smith. She was a native of Guilford County, worked for Bates Nitewear for twenty...

Whitsett - Samuel Gordon Woodard, 85, died at his home on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. He was born in Guilford County, son of the late Samuel Rankin and Minnie Lowe Woodard. He was a retired employee from the City of Greensboro and was a member of Mt. Hope United Church of Christ . Gordon was a...

Bobby Gene Reavis, age 68 of 5661 Westfield Rd. passed away Friday December 1, 2006 at Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham. A native of Guilford County, Bobby was the husband of the late Shirley Johnson Reavis and son of the late Ralph Thomas and Tula Mae Simpson Reavis, Sr. He was retired from Annedeen Hosiery and was...

Walter Baxter Junebug Gerringer, Jr., 75, of 5558 NC 87 N., died in his sleep on September, 19, 2005 at his home after three years of failing health. A native of Caswell County he was the son of the late Walter Baxter Gerringer, Sr. and the late Sadie Styers Gerringer. He was formerly employed with Burlington...

Ernest Curtis Beckom, 73, of Burch Bridge Rd. passed away Sunday August 13, 2006 at D&M Family Care following several years of declining health. He was the husband of Margaret Sykes Beckom and the son of the late Ernest and Bertha Ross Beckom. Ernest was a native of Alamance County, retired from Culp Weaving and was...

Mary Aida Davis Cates, 55, of 706 S. Sellars Mill Rd. died Suddenly of an Intra-cerebral Aneurysm Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at UNC Chapel Hill, NC. Mary was born in Gainesville, FL and graduated with a BA in Graphic Arts from the University of Florida. Though retired, she spent the last several years traveling across the...

Burlington, NC James Neil Stuart, age 20, of McKinney Street died on Wednesday, March 7, 2007. He was a native of Alamance County and the son of the late James Odell Stuart and Edith Cozart Stuart who survives. Neil was a graduate of Cummings High School and a sales associate for Advance Auto in Glen Raven....

John Jernigan, Jr. 79, of 108 Apple St. went home to be with the Lord Tuesday, September 20, 2005 after a brief illness. He was the husband of Margaret Hendrix Jernigan and the son of the late John and Sally Elizabeth Massingill Jernigan. John was a native of Johnson Co., a retired textile worker and a...

Burlington Garland Thomas Loy, age 90, of 116 Markham St., passed away Tuesday September 27, 2005 at his home. A native of Alamance County, he was husband of Alice Burton Shelton Loy who survives and son of the late Joseph Lester and Kinnie Horner Loy. Mr. Loy was a retired foreman at Hole-in-None Hosiery. He was...

Polly Clark Smith died on Tuesday, September 11th at the Hospice Home. Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Boatman and Daisy Clark of Greensboro, NC. She was preceded in death by her siblings, Howard Clark, Viola Leonard, Lauda Matheney, Tommy Clark, Woody Clark, Rueben Clark, Nell Jones and her former husband, John Robert Smith. She is...

Mrs. Joan Carol Farley Stephenson, age 58, of 297 Woodland Dr. Elon passed away on Sunday October 23, 2005 at Alamance Regional Medical Center. A native of Shady Spring, W.VA, she was wife of Rev. Robert W. Bob Stephenson and daughter of Willie Berman Farley, Jr. and the late Regina Dell Sweeney Farley. She was employed...

Gibsonville, NC Billie Bill Albian Hill, age 77, of 1201 Carmon Road, formerly of Burch Bridge Road in Burlington died on Monday, January 23, 2006 at Moses Cone Hospital. He was a native of Ellsworth, Wisconsin and the husband of 50 years to Annie Kate Kernodle Hill who survives. Bill retired from the US Army with...