Jan 10, 2012

Burdell Holbrook Coir

Franklin, NC - Burdell Holbrook Coir, age 100, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Born in Macon County, she was the daughter of the late William and Catherine Shepherd Holbrook. She was married to Herman George Coir, who died in 1971. She was a homemaker and a member of Iotla Baptist Church. Burdell was a Rosie...

Jan 2, 2012

Barbara Ann Fehner

Franklin, NC - Barbara Ann Fehner, age 73, of Franklin, NC passed away, Monday, January 2, 2012. Born in Jamaica, NY, she was the daughter of the late Chester and Alice Superkoff Malinoski. She was a homemaker.

She is survived by one daughter, Mary Alice Shackelford of Fuquay Varina, NC; three sons, George Shackleford...

Jan 1, 2012

Betty Surmiak Wise Bowling

Franklin, NC - Betty Surmiak Wise Bowling, age 77, of Franklin, NC passed away Sunday, January 1, 2012. Born in Fayette County, WV, she was the daughter of George C. Bowling and Edith Bickford Nelson. She was married to Paul Lewis Surmiak for 40 years and she was a manager at Space Maker Storage. She...

Dec 29, 2011

Exum Boyde Horton, Jr.

Franklin, NC - Exum Boyde Horton, Jr., age 85, of Franklin, NC passed away Thursday, December 29, 2011. Born in Raleigh, NC, he was the son of the late Exum Boyde Horton Sr. and Mary Fleming Horton. He was married to Victoria Elizabeth Adams Horton for 40 years. He grew up in Chapel Hill, NC...

Dec 28, 2011

Ronald (Ron) Elliott

Franklin, NC - Ronald (Ron) Elliott, retired Army First Sergeant, passed away on December 28, 2011. His is survived by a godson, John Davis. Ron and his wife, Betty, resided in Franklin, NC. Ron was a veteran of the Korean War and the Viet Nam War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts...

Dec 25, 2011

Karin Bell Gasperin

Franklin, NC - Karin Bell Gasperin, age 52, of Otto, NC passed away Sunday, December 25, 2011. Born in Knoxville, TN, she was the daughter of Pat Spivey Bell of Franklin, NC and the late Jerry Bell. She was married to Lou Gasperin for 30 years and was a homemaker. She was a loving wife and...

Dec 19, 2011

Lillian Jones Sloan

Franklin, NC - Lillian Jones Sloan, age 89, departed this world on Monday, December 19. Lillian was born in Franklin, NC to Maud (Jacobs) and Gilmer Jones. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Bob Sloan, sisters Nancy Jones and Dorothy Chamberlain, and brother, Andy Jones. She is survived by...

Dec 18, 2011

William Martin Brennan

Highlands, NC - William Martin Brennan passed away at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital on December 18, 2011, born in Coral Gables, Florida, on June 24, 1933. He was a member of Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church. He served in the United States Coast Guard. After retiring from Gables Engineering in Coral Gables where he was an...

Dec 16, 2011

Gene Ray Cheek

Franklin, NC - Gene Ray Cheek, age 79, of Franklin, NC passed away Friday, December 16, 2011. Born in Macon County, he was the son of the late William Oliver and Jane Sorrells Cheek. He was married to Doris Anne Sorrells Cheek for 59 years. He was employed by Nantahala Power and Light Company for 30...

Dec 16, 2011

Harold Franklin Brammer

Highlands, NC - Harold Franklin Brammer, 84, of Highlands peacefully passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 at home with his family present. He was born in Mullens, West Virginia, the son of Trevor Franklin Brammer and Hallie Beckelheimer Brammer. He was a US Navy Veteran of World War II and a graduate of Concord University. He...

Dec 13, 2011

Delores Phillips

Franklin, NC - Delores Phillips, age 87, of Franklin, NC passed away Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Born in Wayne Co. MI, she was the daughter of the late John and Genevieve Wegener Manneback. She was married to the late James Clyde Phillips for 47 years. She was a pharmacy assistant and was of the Lutheran faith.

Dec 12, 2011

Michael Russ Quigley

Franklin, NC - Michael Russ Quigley, age 51, of Franklin, NC passed away Monday, December 12, 2011. Born in Lansing, MI, he was the son of the late Charles and Janet Johnson Quigley. He worked in construction as a home builder.

Michael is survived by his step-mother, Gladys Quigley; one sister, Mary Ellen Jackson...

Dec 10, 2011

Charles Robert Horn

Franklin, NC - Charles Robert Horn, 78 of Winslow, Arkansas, passed away Saturday, December 10, 2011 in Winslow. He was born in Franklin, NC and was the son of the late Leonard and Leota McCracken Horn. He retired from the US Navy and was a Vietnam Veteran. Later he drove a truck for Cannon Express and...

Dec 9, 2011

Sara Ferguson Sloan

Cashiers, NC - Sara Ferguson Sloan, 88, of Cashiers, North Carolina went to be with Jesus, Friday, December 9, 2011. She was born in Mecklenburg County, NC to the late A. B. Ferguson and Ethel LaRue Grice Ferguson. She was married to the late William Sloan and was retired from Fulton Co. School System as Food...

Dec 7, 2011

Elwood B. Trueblood, Jr.

Franklin, NC - Elwood B. Trueblood, Jr., age 85, of Franklin, NC passed away Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at his residence. He was born July 8, 1926 in Pelham, NC to Elwood B. Trueblood, Sr and Bernice Lanier Trueblood. He was a WWII Veteran of the US Army Air Corps. He was Director of Security,...

Dec 2, 2011

Betty Jane Gentile Ross

Highlands NC - Betty Jane Gentile Ross, 87, of Highlands, NC passed away Friday, December 2, 2011 after a short stay in Highlands-Cashiers Hospital.

She was born October 15, 1924 in Sewickley, PA, and grew up in Negley and East Palestine, Ohio. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Grace Harte...

Dec 2, 2011

Dorothy "Dottie" Evelyn Hazlett

Franklin NC - Dorothy "Dottie" Evelyn Hazlett, age 86, passed away Friday, December 2, 2011. Born in Villagrove, IL, she was the daughter of the late James Robert and Scotta Mae Sebastian Henry. She was married for 18 years to the late Luther Scott Hazlett who died October 7, 2011. She was sub-registrar for vital...

Dec 2, 2011

Katherine Matilda Kilmon Corti

Franklin, NC - Katherine Matilda Kilmon Corti, 100, left us Friday, December 2, 2011. Born in Royal Oak, Maryland to Walton and Emma Kilmon, in addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years Leo, daughter Helen Stutts, grandsons Michael and Randy Corti and great granddaughter Amanda Raby. She...

Nov 30, 2011

Eleanor Alice Merrick Tobias

Franklin, NC - "Within our hearts the ones we love are never really gone....In spirit and in memory their legacy lives on." Eleanor Alice Merrick Tobias of Franklin, NC passed away peacefully in her sleep with her son, Gary Murphy, by her side, on November 30, 2011. She had just reached the milestone age of...

Nov 29, 2011

Jim Howell Bichard

Franklin, NC - Jim Howell Bichard, age 72, of Franklin, NC, formerly of Orlando, FL, passed away Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Born in Cross City, FL, he was the son of the late John Thomas and Carl Spivey Bichard. He was married to Nancy Tyson Bichard for 22 years. Howell was a supervisor in the steel...