Obituaries

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...

Wilbert Ray Will Pickard, 81, of Rogers Court went home to be with the Lord on Friday, August 12, 2005 at the Hospice Home. He Was a native of Alamance County and the son of the late Floyd Luther and Mary Kate Fogleman Pickard. Wilbert retired from A T & T working primarily at the Guilford...

Burlington, NC Oscar Allen Dudleck, age 77, of 705 Shawnee Drive went home to be with the Lord on Monday, May 29, 2006 at the Hospice Home. He was a native of Altavista, Virginia and the husband of 54 years to Marlene Duke Dudleck who survives. Oscar and his son Alan were the owners and operators...

Melvin Monroe Sutton, age 79, of 1953 Elon-Ossipee Rd., passed away Sunday September 17, 2006 at Alamance Regional Medical Center. A native of Alamance County, he was the beloved husband of Frances Futrell Sutton and son of the late John William and Lydia Isabel Loy Sutton. He was employed by Western Electric and later retired from...

Mrs. Dorothy Freshwater Hedrick, age 88, formerly of Medallion Dr., passed away Sunday August 13, 2006 at Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center A native of Alamance County, she was daughter of the late Fred and Hattie Freshwater and wife of the late Oscar Wilburn Hedrick. She was a retired hairdresser. Mrs. Hedrick is survived by...

Dennis Eugene Short, 61, of 3660 Burch Bridge Rd., died Saturday, December 10, 2005 at the Hospice Home after a short illness. A native of Cleveland County, he was the son of the late Morris Leonard Short and the late Ruby Davis Short and was married to Beulah Kay Danieley Short, who survives. He was retired...