Recent Obituaries

    Mrs. Beulah Farthing "Boots" Parker, age 79, of Boone, died Monday morning at Blowing Rock Hospital. Surviving are five daughters; Jackie Parker of Moss Beach, California, Frankie DeLabarre of South Hampton, NY, Kym Peacock of Leesburg, Virginia, [more...]

    Pastor John Maurice Ward, age 63, of Bethel Road, Sugar Grove, died Saturday afternoon at Watauga Medical Center. Born August 8, 1945 in Watauga County, he was a son of the late Baker Perry Ward and Louiva Edmisten Ward. Maurice was a member of Fri [more...]

     Mrs. Bunnie Hodges Richards, age 86, of Pebble Lane, Todd, died Thursday evening, December 18th, 2008 at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She was born July 24, 1922 in Watauga County to John C. and Julia Brown [more...]

    Mrs. Lena Hodges Bateman, age 69, of Bluebird Lane, Boone, died Wednesday morning, December 17, 2008 at Carolina's Medical Center. Born September 3, 1939, in Watauga County, she was a daughter of the late Curtis Blue and Bonnie Emo Hodges. Lena was [more...]

    Russell C. (Jack) Taylor, MD passed Sunday December 14, 2008 at his home after a long illness. Jack was born in Dobson, North Carolina on April 23, 1937. His family moved to Mount Airy, North Carolina when he was five years old. He attended gramma [more...]