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Joyce Lamm

Joyce Lamm

Aug 29, 2013

WILSON - Joyce Bass Lamm, 83, died Thursday, August 29, 2013. Funeral, Saturday, August 31, 2013, 11 AM, Wilson Memorial Service, followed by visitation. Ms. Lamm is survived by her husband, Harold J. Lamm Sr.; sons, Jennings Lamm and wife, Jaye, of Wilson, Alan Lamm of Bailey, Donnie Lamm and wife, Donna, of Clinton and Ronnie Lamm of...

Charles Fields

Charles Fields

Aug 29, 2013

ELM CITY - North Carolina Army National Guard Command Sgt. Major Retd (E-9) Charles A. Fields, 73, of the Gardners School community, died Thursday, August 29, 2013. He served 34 years in the Guard and retired as service manager for Cox Dodge. He was preceded in death by his parents, Archie Lloyd and Pearl Carlisle Fields, sister, Janice...

Susan Black

Susan Black

Aug 23, 2013

Susan Hackney Black, 67, of Wilson, died Friday, August 23, 2013. Funeral, Sunday, 3:00 PM, First Presbyterian Church. Interment, Maplewood Cemetery. Surviving is her husband, Joseph "Michael" Black; daughters, Susan B. Strauch of Wilson and Elizabeth Horne (Jim) of Elm City; son, Michael Black, Jr., (Dottie) of Southern Pines; grandchildren, Holden, Jay, Liza, Anna Grace and Trey; mother,...

Billy Sasser

Billy Sasser

Aug 21, 2013

PIKEVILLE - Billy Eugene Sasser, 78, died Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Funeral, Saturday, 6:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, 2811 Fieldstream Drive, Wilson, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Interment, Sunday 3:30 PM, Wayne Memorial Park. He was preceded in death by his wife, Annette Toler Sasser and was a Navy veteran. Surviving is his daughter, Vicki...

Anne Lee

Anne Lee

Aug 20, 2013

RALEIGH - Anne Roberts Lee, noted educator who developed and implemented Wake County's character education program, passed away August 20, 2013, after a lengthy battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare degenerative neurological disease. Anne was born in Logan, West Virginia, to the late O.B. and Edith Roberts, and grew up in Wilson, North Carolina. She received her...

Foster Rodgers

Foster Rodgers

Aug 20, 2013

STANTONSBURG - Foster Gray Rodgers, 91, died Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Funeral, Thursday, 7 PM, First Baptist Church, followed by visitation. Interment, Friday, 2 PM, Stantonsburg Cemetery. Foster was a Navy veteran of World War II and retired Stantonsburg Postmaster. Surviving is his wife, Evelyn Pike Rodgers; son, Larry Rodgers (Terry) of Stantonsburg; grandson, Zachary Rodgers; granddaughters, Amelia,...

Mary Rakow

Mary Rakow

Aug 19, 2013

WILSON - Mary Lou Bailey Rakow, 76, died August 19, 2013. The memorial service will be held at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church (where Mary Lou sang in the choir for over forty years) on Friday at 11:00 AM, followed by inurnment in the church columbarium. The family will receive friends at the church following the inurnment. She was...

Suzanne Patterson

Suzanne Patterson

Aug 17, 2013

Suzanne Patterson, 51, of Stantonsburg, died Saturday, August 17, 2013. Funeral, Monday, 7:00 PM, Stantonsburg Baptist Church, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Surviving is her mother, Barbara Tidwell Patterson; brother, Joel Patterson (Ashley) of Wilson, aunts and uncles, Joe and Margaret Patterson and Joe and Sandy Poole. She was preceded in death by her father,...

Mary Weaver

Mary Weaver

Aug 16, 2013

Mary Susanne Weaver, known to all as "Susanne", 58, was born July 29, 1955. She died Friday, August 16, 2013. Her funeral will be Monday, 2:00 PM, Weaver Family Cemetery, 4603 Jo Weaver Road, Wilson, conducted by Rev. Roy Porter. The family will be at the home place near the cemetery one hour prior to the service. Her...

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

Aug 16, 2013

WILSON - Christine "Chris" Rucker Wilson, 87, of Bradford Place, died Friday, August 16, 2013. Funeral, Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, Tuesday, 2:00 PM. After the interment, the family will be at the home of Will and Tina Rucker in Shelby. She was born on February 20, 1926, in Rutherford County to the late William Ralph and Lillian Pearl Glascoe...

Cornelia Hinton

Cornelia Hinton

Aug 15, 2013

NASHVILLE - Cornelia Frances Hinton, 93, of the Momeyer Community, died, Thursday, August 15, 2013. Funeral, Saturday, August 17, 11 AM, Forest Hills Cemetery. She was a retired bookkeeper for Wood Motor Service and Hinton Brothers Builders. "Aunt Frances" was a very special friend and motherly figure to her nieces and nephews. She loved gardening, baking and reading...

Laura Moore

Laura Moore

Aug 10, 2013

Laura Dell Davis Moore, 87, of Wilson, widow of Robert Lee Moore, died Saturday, August 10, 2013. Funeral, Wednesday, 10:00 AM, Wilson Memorial Service, 2811 Fieldstream Drive, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Interment, Maplewood Cemetery. Surviving are daughters, Linda Barbee (Jeff) of Lucama and Jane Lamm of Wilson; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; sister, Sara...

Shirley Crocker

Shirley Crocker

Aug 9, 2013

Shirley Horne Crocker, 77, of Wilson and widow of Jesse D. Crocker, died Friday, August 9, 2013. Funeral, Monday, 7:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, preceded by visiting at 6:00 PM. Interment, Tuesday, 9:00 AM, Black Creek Cemetery. Surviving is her daughter, Rose C. Viverette of Wilson; sister, Billie Jean Prorok of Vandergrift, PA; brother, Rev. Jesse Horne of...

Sylvia Webb

Sylvia Webb

Aug 8, 2013

STANTONSBURG - Sylvia Baker Webb, 75, of the Holdens Cross Roads community, went to be with the Lord, Thursday, August 8, 2013. Funeral, Friday, 7 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, followed by visitation. Interment, Saturday, 10 AM, Macclesfield Cemetery. Sylvia was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She loved farming with her husband and loved all animals, particularly her...

Allien Mercer

Allien Mercer

Aug 8, 2013

LUCAMA - Allien Johnson Mercer, 94, died Thursday, August 8, 2013. Funeral, Monday, 11 AM, Wilson Memorial Service, followed by visitation. Interment, Evergreen Memorial Park. She was widow of Millard Mercer who died in January, 1956, and daughter of the late Deams and Cora Lamm Johnson; sister to the late Clarcy Raper, Dorothy Lucas, Nona Barnes, Bessie Moore,...

Lyman Laughinghouse

Lyman Laughinghouse

Aug 6, 2013

WILSON- Lyman W. Laughinghouse, 90, of Wilson, died Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Funeral, Thursday, 2:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service immediately followed by Masonic Rites. Lyman graduated from Charles L. Coon High School where he played both Junior and Varsity football and baseball. He played baseball for the Wilson Tobs (Coastal Plain League) for a short time before entering...

Bill Mercer

Bill Mercer

Aug 5, 2013

William L. Mercer, Wilson, NC William Lewis (Bill) Mercer, 85, died August 5, 2013 in Wilson, NC. Bill was the son of the late Thomas B. and Iva W. Mercer. He was preceded in death by his sister, Isadore Baker. Bill was happily married to Rachel Barbara Mattox Mercer for 63 1/2 years. He was the proud father...

Josephine Jones

Josephine Jones

Jul 26, 2013

LUCAMA - Josephine Proctor Jones, 83, died Friday, July 26, 2013. Funeral, Sunday, 6:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, Wilson, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Interment, Evergreen Memorial Park, Monday, 10:00 AM. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Gray "Red" Jones in 2003 after 57 years of marriage; parents, Alvin Anderson and Lossie...

Bryan Hooks

Bryan Hooks

Jul 18, 2013

Lucama - Bryan Hooks, 82, died Thursday, July 18, 2013, at home. Funeral, Friday, 7:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Burial, Saturday, 9:00 AM, Evergreen Memorial Park beside his wife, Waldine Hayes Hooks, who died January, 2009. Surviving is his daughter, Amanda Hooks of the home; sons, Randy Hooks (Gail), Andy...

Clifford Schrock

Clifford Schrock

Jul 17, 2013

Elm City - Clifford Ralph Schrock, 88, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Funeral, Saturday, 2:00 PM, Wilson Memorial Service, followed by a time of visiting and sharing. Inurnment, Evergreen Memorial Park. He moved to Wilson in 1967 from Goshen, IN, to be with Goshen Rubber Company as they opened the Wilson GNC plant. He retired in 1987 as...

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