Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Richmond county


Dorothy Rainwater Covington

Dorothy Rainwater Covington

Feb 19, 2006

Mrs. Dorothy Rainwater Covington, 79, of 1289 NC Hwy 177 S. Rockingham, died Sunday, February 19, 2006 at her home. Mrs. Covington was born May 3, 1926 in Marlboro County, SC, a daughter of the late Vander and Cardella Sweatt Rainwater. She was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband Charles Covington in 1997. Surviving are her...

Johnnie Bert Hardee

Johnnie Bert Hardee

Feb 19, 2006

Johnnie Bert Hardee, 63, of 159 Broadway St. Rockingham, died Sunday, February 19, 2006 at his home. Mr. Hardee was born December 9, 1942 in Richmond County, a son of the late Henry Rufus and Edna Carolyn Oliver Hardee. He was a member of Jefferson Park Free Will Baptist Church and was a retired brickmason. He was preceded in death...

Millard Clayton Vuncannon

Millard Clayton Vuncannon

Feb 18, 2006

Mr. Millard Clayton Vuncannon, 93, formerly of 219 Marvin McCaskill Rd., Ellerbe died Saturday, February 18, 2006 at First Health Richmond Memorial Hospital. Mr. Vuncannon was born September 28, 1912 in Montgomery Co., a son of the late Remus and Ethel Lassiter Vuncannon. Mr. Vuncannon was a charter member of First Baptist Church in Ellerbe. He was retired as a...

Nellie Lee Stubbs

Nellie Lee Stubbs

Feb 17, 2006

Mrs. Nellie Lee Haire Stubbs, 67, of Asheboro died Friday, February 17, 2006 at Randolph Memorial Hospital. She was born January 6, 1939 in Moore County, a daughter of the late Lelia Haire and Wesley Lee Tart. Mrs. Stubbs was retired from textile industry. Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Monday, February 20th at White’s Creek Baptist Church with...

Ruth Ward Durden

Ruth Ward Durden

Feb 14, 2006

Mrs. Ruth Ward Durden, 86, of Rockingham died Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at Penick Village in Southern Pines. She was born October 10, 1919 in Northampton Co., a daughter of the late Hattie Walston and Herbert Ward. Funeral services will be conducted 11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 16th in the Carter Funeral Home Colonial Chapel in Rockingham with Rev. Bill Kearse...

Hubert Thurman Comer

Hubert Thurman Comer

Feb 12, 2006

Mr. Hubert Thurman Comer, 81, of Fifth St. Ellerbe, died Sunday, February 12, 2006 at Pinehurst Nursing Center in Pinehurst. Mr. Comer was born December 8, 1924 in Montgomery County, a son of the late Lindsay Wister and Margaret Virginia McFayden Comer. He was a member of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church, a veteran of the US Navy during World War...

Michael L. Parker

Michael L. Parker

Feb 11, 2006

Michael L. Parker, 59, of 123 Pine Lane Rockingham, died Saturday, February 11, 2006 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. Mike was born October 13, 1946 in Richmond County, a son of Frances Maddry Parker and the late James M. Parker. He had served his country in the US Army during the Vietnam Era, was a member of the...

Kathleen Lathan

Kathleen Lathan

Feb 7, 2006

Mrs. Kathleen Herndon Carlisle Lathan, 81, of Rockingham, died Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at Hospice Haven of Rockingham. Mrs. Lathan was born June 30, 1924 in Scotland County, a daughter of the late Lonnie and Alma Sanderson Herndon. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husbands,...

Robert H. 'Bob' Rankin

Robert H. 'Bob' Rankin

Feb 6, 2006

Mr. Robert Hugh “Bob” Rankin, 86, of Ellerbe, died Monday, February 6, 2006 at his home. The eldest son of the late Robert M. and Frankie Thompson Rankin, he was born in Ellerbe on December 18, 1919. He was an active member of Jones Spring United Methodist Church. An ardent baseball fan, he enjoyed playing, coaching, and watching the sport....

Euna J. Williams

Euna J. Williams

Feb 5, 2006

Mrs. Euna Johnson Williams, 85, of 127 Two Branch Road, Rockingham died Sunday, February 5, 2006 at Rockingham Manor. She was born May 11, 1920 in Chesterfield Co., SC, a daughter of the late Cora Ellis and Clarence Johnson. Mrs. Williams was a member of Maple Street Free Will Baptist Church, was employed as a seamstress in textiles and retired...

Christine Hill Price

Christine Hill Price

Feb 3, 2006

Sally Christine Hill Price, 88, of 128 East Main St. Ellerbe died Friday, February 03, 2006 at her home. Mrs. Price was born April 20, 1917 in Stewart, VA a daughter of the late George W. and Cora Weddle Hill. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Ellerbe where she had been very active in the Women...

Turner Staton Bass, Jr.

Turner Staton Bass, Jr.

Feb 2, 2006

Turner Staton Bass, Jr., 46, of 2408 Hwy 220 N., Ellerbe died suddenly Thursday, February 2, 2006. Turner was born August 19, 1959 in Greensburg, Pa a son of Catherine Anne McLaughlin Bass and the late Turner Staton Bass. He was the co-owner and operator of Ellerbe Springs Nursery and Landscaping and a member of First United Methodist Church of...

Clemer Wilson Patterson

Clemer Wilson Patterson

Jan 29, 2006

Mrs. Clemer Wilson “Mema” Patterson, 94, of 125 Wilson Ave, Rockingham, died Sunday, January 29, 2006 at Sandhills Regional Medical Center in Hamlet. Mrs. Patterson was born December 1, 1911 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Luther L. and Mattie Cole Wilson. She was a founding member of Southwood Pentecostal Holiness Church and had retired from Beaunit Mills....

Archie "Jack" Liles

Archie "Jack" Liles

Jan 28, 2006

Archie ‘Jack’ Liles, 79, of 112 Parrot Lane, Rockingham died Saturday, January 28, 2006 at First Health Moore Regional Hospital. He was born October 4, 1926 in Richmond Co., a son of the late Archie and Ettie McGee Liles. Mr. Liles was the owner of Archie’s CB and Auto Center in Cordova for many years. He is a Mason and...

Edgar Mallard

Edgar Mallard

Jan 28, 2006

Edgar M. Mallard, 75, passed away early Saturday morning, January 28, 2006 at his home in Derby. He was born April 18, 1930 in Lexington, NC, a son of the late Rudolph and Inez Mallard. Mr. Mallard was retiree of Pinehurst Incorporated, where he worked as an HVAC technician and retired as a Master Sergeant of the North Carolina National...

Murray Cleveland Faulk

Murray Cleveland Faulk

Jan 27, 2006

Murray Cleveland Faulk, 91, of 104 Pence St. Rockingham, died Friday, January 27, 2006 at Firsthealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham. Mr. Faulk was born November 15, 1914 in Tabor City, a son of the late William and Martha Deboise Faulk. He was a retired loom fixer in the textile industry. He was preceded in death by his wife Eunice...

William Lloyd Gaither

William Lloyd Gaither

Jan 17, 2006

William Lloyd Gaither, 75, of Somerset Court Hamlet formerly of Rockingham died Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at Sandhills Regional Medical Center in Hamlet. Mr. Gaither was born October 7, 1930 in Richmond County, NC a son of the late William C. and Kathleen McClure Gaither. He was a handyman by profession. Surviving are his half sister, Mary Gaither Webb of...

Hazel Owens Bailey

Hazel Owens Bailey

Jan 15, 2006

Hazel Owens Bailey, 93, of Rockingham, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006, at Penn Center Nursing Home, in Reidsville, NC. She was born Oct. 1, 1912, a daughter of the late Walter C. and Ida Hamilton Owens. She was a member of First Pentecostal Holiness Church. She was a Sunday School teacher and was active in women’s ministries. She owned and...

Ruby Lea England

Ruby Lea England

Jan 14, 2006

Ruby Lea England, 76, of Rockingham, died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, at Sandhills Regional Medical Center in Hamlet. She was born Aug. 11, 1929, a daughter of the late Furman and Edith Beason England. She was retired from Sara Lee Corp. as an inspector. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Outreach for Jesus with Bishop Marvin Taylor...

Polly Ann Siner

Polly Ann Siner

Feb 27, 2005

Mrs. Polly Ann Smith Siner, 70, of 136 Patterson St. Rockingham, died Monday, February 27, 2006 at Sandhills Regional Medical Center in Hamlet. Mrs. Siner was born December 8, 1935 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Robert and Wilma Ormsby Smith and was a homemaker. She was loved and will be missed by many. Surviving are her husband,...

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