OBITUARIES

Local obituaries for

Franklin & Highlands North Carolina.

Audrey Deal Baty

Audrey Deal Baty

Jan 7, 2009

Audrey Deal Baty

Highlands, NC - Audrey Deal Baty,age 74, of Albany, GA formerly of Macon County, NC passed away Thursday January 7, 2009 at Albany, GA. Mrs. Baty was married to Earl Baty who passed away in 2008. She was a native of Oconee County, SC and a daughter of the late Herschel and Grace Crowe Deal. She...

Addie Ledbetter Vanhook

Addie Ledbetter Vanhook

Jan 6, 2009

Addie Ledbetter VanHook

Franklin, NC - Addie Pauline Ledbetter VanHook, age 95, of Addington Bridge Road, Franklin, NC, passed away Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at her residence. She was a native of Macon County, the daughter of the late William C. and Sally Garland Ledbetter. She was married to the late Cecil C. VanHook. She retired from Belden Electrical...

Robert H. Munn

Robert H. Munn

Dec 31, 2008

Robert H. Munn

Franklin - Robert H. Munn, 80, of Franklin, NC, formerly of Holiday, Florida, died Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Mr. Munn grew up in Hollywood, California, and joined the United States Army, training as a paratrooper. After his honorable discharge from military service in 1949, he worked at a Hollywood studio in film production until the late...

Joseph Ponds

Joseph Ponds

Dec 29, 2008

Joseph Ponds

Highlands, NC - Joseph Michael Ponds, of Highlands, NC, passed away on December 29, 2008, at the age of 87 after a long, hard fought battle with cancer. Joe was born and raised in Detroit, MI. When WWII started, he became a Navy pilot. While assigned to Corsair flight school at Virginia Beach, VA, in 1943, he...

Coy Killian Kerr

Coy Killian Kerr

Dec 28, 2008

Coy Killian Kerr

Topton, NC - Coy Killian Kerr, age 40, of Concord, NC, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2008. He was a native of Los Angeles, CA, but had lived most of his life in North Carolina. He was the son of Weldon and Betty Lee Duvall Kerr of Topton, NC. He was a pipefitter for A-1 Fire...

Howard Eugene Irby

Howard Eugene Irby

Dec 28, 2008

Howard Eugene Irby

Franklin, NC - Howard Eugene Irby, age 85, of Franklin, NC, passed away Sunday, December 28, 2008. He was the son of the late Everett and Amy Irby. He was a native of Mantoon, IL and was a Union painter for fifty years. He was a member of Snow Hill Methodist Church.

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Dawn Deneice Lynn

Dawn Deneice Lynn

Dec 23, 2008

Dawn Deneice Lynn

Franklin, NC - Dawn Deneice Lynn, age 68, of Hickory Gap Road, Franklin, NC passed away, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at her residence. She was a native of Orleans County, NY, the daughter, of the late Curtis L. Blount and Bernadine H. Parker Blount. She had worked as a trainer for State Farm Insurance, and was...

Kathrine (Kate) E. Conley Holbrook

Kathrine (Kate) E. Conley Holbrook

Dec 19, 2008

Kathrine (Kate) E. Conley Holbrook

Franklin, NC -Kathrine E. Conley Holbrook (Kate), age 96, passed away at her residence on Hickory Knoll on Friday, December 19, 2008 after a lengthy illness. She was a life long resident of the Hickory Knoll Community. She is preceded in death by her husband, Alex L. Holbrook who passed away in 1986; her...

Frank J. Hayes, Jr

Frank J. Hayes, Jr

Dec 19, 2008

Frank J. Hayes, Jr

Highlands, NC -Frank J. Hayes, Jr, age 85, of Highlands, NC formerly of Tamarac FL. passed away Friday, December 19, 2008. He was born June 4, 1923 in Staten Island, New York. He was the son of the late Frank Joseph Hayes, Sr and Jennie Wood Hayes. He was married to the late Mary Crunkleton...

Larry William Rish

Larry William Rish

Dec 18, 2008

Larry William Rish

Franklin, NC - Larry William Rish, 52, of the Corbin Cove area of Franklin went to be with the Lord on Thursday, December 18, 2008, after a battle with cancer. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church on Cowee Mountain.

He was preceded in death by his mother - Virginia Rish. He is...

Ruth Louise Hogsed

Ruth Louise Hogsed

Dec 17, 2008

Ruth Louise Hogsed

Franklin, NC - Ruth Louise Hogsed, age 82, of Allman Drive, Franklin, NC passed away Wednesday, December 17, 2008 in a local hospital. She was a native of Macon County, the daughter of the late Joe and Daisy Robbins Hamby. She was married to the late Evan Hogsed who passed away June 18, 2000. She was...

Blanche Cleta Cochran Franklin

Blanche Cleta Cochran Franklin

Dec 17, 2008

Blanche Cleta Cochran Franklin

Franklin, NC - Blanche Cleta Cochran Franklin, longtime resident of Franklin, NC, passed away December 17, 2008 at Mountain Trace Nursing Center in Webster,NC. She was born June 15, 1915 in Macon Co., NC. She was preceded in death by her former husband, Sam C. Franklin, II, her parents and all 5 of her brothers...

Mary "Mae" Wilson Huffman

Mary "Mae" Wilson Huffman

Dec 14, 2008

Mary "Mae" Wilson Huffman

Franklin, NC - Mary "Mae" Wilson Huffman, age 84, of Rolling Acres, Franklin, NC, went to be with her Lord Sunday, December 14, 2008 in the Fidelia Eckerd Living Center, Highlands, NC. She was a native of Jackson County, NC, the daughter of the late Harley and Annie Cope Wilson. She was preceded in death...

Judie Mccafferty

Judie Mccafferty

Dec 12, 2008

Judie McCafferty

Bryson City - Judie McCafferty of Needmore, Bryson City, NC lost her 6 month fight with lung cancer December 12th, 2008 at her residence. She was born in Kewanee, IL but called Bryson City, NC home. She was the daughter of Paul Westerlund and Lois Drehmer. She was an accountant at Nantahala Village and Mountain Ford of...

Robert Garland Quilliams

Robert Garland Quilliams

Dec 11, 2008

Robert Garland Quilliams

Robbinsville, NC - Robert Garland Quilliams, age 87, of Robbinsville, NC died Thursday, December 11, 2008 in a local hospital. He was a native of Jackson County, the son of the late Arthur Garland and Lillie King Quilliams. He was married to the late Hazel Williamson Quilliams who passed away in July 2007. He was a...

Joyce Elaine Luly

Joyce Elaine Luly

Dec 7, 2008

Joyce Elaine Luly

Franklin, NC - Joyce Elaine Luly passed away December 7, 2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at the age of 85.

She was born in Hibbing, MN to Edwin and Myrtle Nord Stromwall and grew up in Aberdeen, SD, where she earned her nursing degree at Presentation College. She became a Cadet Nurse during World...

Henry Howard Childers

Henry Howard Childers

Dec 6, 2008

Henry Howard Childers

Franklin - Henry Howard Childers, 74 of Franklin passed away Saturday, December 6, 2008 in Flat Rock, NC. He was a native of Haywood County and was the son of the late Paul and Sadie Simplot Childers. Mr. Childers was a US Navy Veteran of the Korean War and was retired from Champion Paper as a...

Florence Mason Holt

Florence Mason Holt

Dec 3, 2008

Florence Mason Holt

Franklin, NC - Florence Mason Holt, age 67, of North Skeenah Road, Franklin, NC, passed away Wednesday, December 3, 2008. She was a native of Macon County, the daughter of the late Earl Wilson Mason and Sadie Stockton Mason. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Lee Holt, who passed away March 28, 1978,...

Maybur Henson Norton

Maybur Henson Norton

Dec 3, 2008

Maybur Henson Norton

Franklin, NC - Maybur Henson Norton, age 93, of Big Oak Drive, Franklin, NC, passed away Wednesday, December 3, 2008 in a local nursing home. She was a native of Macon County, the daughter of the late Lonnie and Ora Norris Henson. She was married to Paschal Norton, who passed away in 1976. She was a...

Lona Grace Jones

Lona Grace Jones

Dec 3, 2008

Lona Grace Jones

Franklin, NC - Lona Grace Jones, age 93, of Ned Hill Road, Franklin, NC, went to be with her Lord,Wednesday, December 3, 2008 in a local nursing home. She was a native of Macon County, the daughter of the late Will and Maggie Shepherd Gibson. She was married to the late Arthur Jones, who passed away...

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