Recent Obituaries

    Mr. Kenneth Max Barlow, age 71, of Reas Street, Boone, passed away Wednesday morning, August 15, 2012 at Glenbridge Health & Rehabilitation. Born June 17, 1941 in Caldwell County, he was a son of the late Fredrick and Alma Greene Barlow. Max was re [more...]

    Mr. Terry Charles King, age 52, of 338 Brook Hollow Lane passed away Tuesday morning at Life Care Center in Banner Elk following a battle with cancer. He was born October 22, 1959 in Avery County to the late Charlie and Olivia Brewer King. Terry wo [more...]

    William Thomas (Tom) Cottingham, Jr., 96, passed on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at Coffee Regional Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Cottingham was born in Douglas, GA to the late William Thomas Cottingham Sr. and Eula Newbern Cottingham [more...]

    Edgar Truett Coffey, age 83, of West Hillcrest Drive, Mountain City, Tennessee, and formerly of Watauga County, went home to be with his Lord Sunday morning, August 12, 2012. Truett was born August 15, 1928 in Valle Crucis, NC to William Harston an [more...]

    Mary Austin Graham of 151 Cave Canem Drive, Boone passed away peacefully on August 12, 2012 at Watauga Medical Center. Born August 29, 1930, she was the daughter of Collis and Roxie McNeil Austin of Boone. Mary was a 1948 graduate of Appalachian Hi [more...]

    Ruth Teachey Townsend died peacefully at her home in Blowing Rock on Friday, August 10th. She was born May 1, 1933 in Lenoir County, NC to the late Jimmie Graham Teachey and Eva Nettie Teachey. She was a graduate of B.F. Grady High School in Alberst [more...]

    Mr. Herman Wayne Noblitt, age 70, of Bethel Road, Sugar Grove passed away Thursday morning, August 9, 2012 at his daughters home in Todd. Born September 29, 1941 in McDowell County, he was a son of the late John and Tillie Mills Noblitt. Herman was [more...]

    Betty Arlene Norris, age 71, formerly of Ball Branch Road, Boone, died Wednesday evening, August 8, 2012, at Glenbridge Health & Rehabilitation. Betty was born November 29, 1940 in Watauga County. She retired from TRW in the accounts payable depart [more...]

    Mr. Robert Hal Mast, age 70, of US Hwy 421 North, Zionville, passed away Sunday morning, August 5, 2012 at Watauga Medical Center. Born August 9, 1941 in Watauga County he was the son of the late Thomas Jefferson Mast and Margaret Yates Mast. Mr. Ma [more...]

    Dr. Ronald Morris Perry, age 59, of Valle Crucis, passed away Sunday night at Watauga Medical Center. Born November 5, 1952 in Wilson, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Harland Griffin Perry and Margaret Eggers Perry. Dr. Perry was a 1975 [more...]

    James Vadis 'Proxy' Price, age 67, of Wildcat Hollow Road, Creston, passed away Wednesday evening, August 1, 2012 at Blowing Rock Hospital. Born January 6, 1945 in Caldwell Co., to James Houston Price and Rosie Coffey Price Rich. James was a retire [more...]

    Mrs. Jean Lorraine Rogy Strickland, age 90, of Park View Circle, Blowing Rock, passed away Friday July 27, 2012 at Watauga Medical Center. Born September 24, 1921 in Peoria Illinois, she was the only daughter of the late Lial Henry and Ethel Jane Sh [more...]

    William Ronald Mast, Jr., age 23, of Hwy 421 South, Boone, passed away Thursday morning, July 26, 2012. Born August 16, 1988 in Watauga County, he was a son of Angela Gail Wall and William Ronald Mast, Sr. William served as a Deputy with the Wata [more...]

    Boyd Smith Moretz, age 50, of Deep Gap, passed away Friday, July 20, 2012, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Born March 31, 1962 in Watauga County, he was a son of the late Henry Odell and Beulah Winebarger Moretz. [more...]

    Reginald Bryan Chastain, Jr. October 28, 1936 -- July 19, 2012 Reginald Bryan Chastain, Jr., United States Foreign Service Officer of 27 years, passed away on Thursday, July 19, 2012 in Jefferson, NC. The oldest of three children, Bryan Chastain, [more...]