Local obituaries for
Franklin & Highlands North Carolina.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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