Recent Obituaries

     Mary Leona Lusk Bell, age 77, of NC Highway 194 South, Banner Elk, the Valle Crucis community, died Saturday morning, December 27, ,2008 at Cannon Hospital in Linville. She was born January 22, 2931 in Watauga County to Walter Gerald and Martha Te [more...]

    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...]