Joe L. Lipscomb
November 10, 2014
Joe Lee Lipscomb, 82, died Monday. Born in Wake County, he was the son of the late Tom and Eliza Lipscomb. Funeral services will be 11:00 am Thursday at Carolina Pines Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Apex Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the church from 10-11:00 am prior to the service. Survivors include his wife, Genevieve...
Margaret Bryan Humphries
November 10, 2014
Margaret Bryan Humphries, 87, died Monday. She was preceded in death by her son, James Lonnie Humphries and her grandson, Frank Christmas. Funeral services will be 11:00 am Friday at Bryan-Lee Funeral Chapel, Garner. Burial will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park. Survivors include her daughter, Julia Dupree and husband, Robert; granddaughters, Carol Ann Christmas and Susan Tilley and husband,...
Amanda Harrell Wheless
November 10, 2014
Amanda Harrell Wheless, 90, died Monday night, November 10, 2014. She was born on November 22, 1923, in Powellsville, NC. She is the daughter of Amanda Mizell Harrell and Demetrius Silas “Met” Harrell. She is survived by her beloved daughter, Nanda Wheless Irons, her two granddaughters, Amanda “Mandy” Irons Wilson, and husband Matt, of Raleigh; Erin Irons McNeill, and...
Helen Tucker Beckwith
November 10, 2014
Helen Tucker Beckwith, 88, a prolific writer and storyteller, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. Born in Raleigh, she grew up in Louisburg, the daughter of William Blair Tucker and Helen Welch Tucker. Under the name of Helen Tucker, she wrote 18 novels and 27 short stories published in more than two dozen countries. She was graduated from Wake Forest...
Dorothy Dot Woodruff
November 9, 2014
Dorothy Dot Woodruff, 76, passed away Nov. 9, 2014. Dot was a very talented person. Dot drove a bus for Wake County Schools for several years. She worked as a teacher, was a very loving homemaker, a nursing assistant in a nursing home, a gymnastics instructor, a master light technician, and an interior decorator. She loved working in her...
Harold E. Rev. Aldridge
November 9, 2014
Garner- Rev. Harold E. Aldridge, 87, passed away at home Sunday. A native of Waycross, GA, he is the son of the late Rev. James E. Aldridge and Elizabeth Highsmith Aldridge.Rev. Aldridge was ordained as an Advent Christian minister in August of 1953. He has pastored churches in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida and served as President of...
Bridget Gwen Gaskins
November 5, 2014
Bridget Gwen Gaskins, 33, passed away peacefully November 5, 2014, at her familys home in Raleigh, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born December 19, 1980 in South Carolina, the daughter of and Kay Lynn Talbert Smith and Mark Wayne Gaskins. She attended Fuquay-Varina High School and Wake Tech studying IT applications. Bridget worked the last 8 years...
Dorothy Parrish Lambert
November 4, 2014
Dorothy Parrish Lambert, surrounded by her loving family, went home to be reunited with the love of her life, her husband and her Lord and Savior on November 4, 2014. She was born August 17, 1928, in Benson, North Carolina but grew up in Smithfield, North Carolina. She was the daughter of the late Genevieve Baucom Parrish and the...
Elaine M. Ross
November 3, 2014
After a one year battle with cancer, Elaine Marie Ross died on November 3, 2014 in Garner, NC at the age of 67. She was predeceased by her husband Joseph C. Ross; father, Earle Bubier; mother, Helvi Saari Bubier; and brother, Stanley Bubier.Elaine was born on December 9, 1946 in Boston, MA, and was raised in Watertown, MA. She...
Talmadge Thomas Hinnant
November 3, 2014
Talmadge Thomas Hinnant died Monday, November 3, 2014, at the Rosewood Health Center of the Cypress of Raleigh. A Christmas baby, she was born on December 25, 1927, at Duke Raleighs predecessor, The Mary Elizabeth Hospital. She was the only child of Ernest Foster Thomas and Ruth Ermine Webb Thomas. Called Talmadge as a child and then shortened to...
Patricia Pat Mcleod Self
October 28, 2014
Angier - Patricia Pat Mcleod Self, 66, passed away on Tuesday. Pat was daughter to the late Dwight A. McLeod and Vera Mcleod Blalock and step-daughter to the late Bruce Blalock.A Memorial Service will be held on Friday at 2:00 pm at Bryan-Lee Funeral Home, Angier. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.Pat, affectionately known...
Nelson Clyde Bumpie Smith
October 26, 2014
Angier - Nelson Clyde Bumpie Smith, 69, died Sunday October 26, 2014 at his home in Angier, NC with his family by his side. He was born September 3, 1945 in Alabama to the late Archie and Otha Mae Smith. He was a US Army veteran and served in Vietnam during which he received many medals including the Bronze...
Ralph L. West
October 26, 2014
Raleigh- Ralph Leonidas West, 73, left us to be with the Lord on Sunday. He was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, Magdalene West and grandson, Christopher Rogers. Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Thursday at Bryan-Lee Funeral Chapel, Garner. Burial will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park. Survivors include his son, Ralph A. West; daughter, Teresa...
Herman Buck Moore
October 25, 2014
Garner - Herman Buck Moore, 82, died Saturday surrounded by his loving family. A native of Johnston County, he was the son of the late Hunter and Donnie Parker Moore. A loving husband and father, He was known for his humor and generosity. Buck retired after 35 years of service as a market manager at Big Star/ Colonial Stores.Funeral...
Al Sabino
October 25, 2014
Garner - Al Sabino, 85, died Saturday. A native of Ohio, he was the son of the late Louis and Rose Carusone Sabino. Funeral services will be 1:00 pm Thursday at Garner Church of Christ, Garner. Burial will follow at Pinecrest Memorial Gardens, Clayton. Al was an avid gardner and loved being outdoors. He took pride in his garden...
Evelyn B. Gay
October 25, 2014
Garner -Evelyn Brantley Gay, 98, retired Postmaster at Bunn, NC with 31 years of service, died Saturday. A native of Nash County, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Arrah Murray Brantley.Funeral Services will be 11:00 am Tuesday at Bryan-Lee Funeral Chapel, Garner. Burial will follow at the Bunn Cemetery, Bunn, NC.Surviving: daughters, Betty Harris and husband,...
Robert Bob Chester, Jr.
October 24, 2014
Bob Chester, 68, passed away Friday Oct. 24, 2014. Bob worked many years as an electrician. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, and brother. Memorial service will be at 4:00 PM Tuesday Oct. 28 at Bryan-Lee Funeral Chapel, Garner. The family will receive friends after the service.Survivors include his wife of 47 years; Sandy Wildey Chester; daughter,...
Frankie Red Bug Carroll
October 24, 2014
Raleigh - Frank Wayne Carroll, 62, loving father, brother and devoted PaPa, went to be with the Lord, Friday. He was predeceased by his parents, William Mutt Carroll and Josephine Franks Carroll.Funeral Services will be 3:00 PM, Sunday at Bryan-Lee Funeral Home, 1200 Benson Road, Garner. The family will receive friends following the service and at other times the...
Hilda Sellers Yarbough
October 24, 2014
Raleigh - Hilda Sellers Yarbough, 100, passed away peacefully on Friday surrounded by her loving family. A native of New Hanover Co., she was the daughter of the late L.L. and Annie Kerr Sellers. She was the oldest alumni of Peace College and worked for 23 years at Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Raleigh.Funeral services will be held at 11:00...
Nancy Mccall Bashford
October 22, 2014
Raleigh - Nancy McCall Bashford, 87, of Raleigh died on October 22, 2014.Nancy was born in Hendersonville, NC. Her father, William Grayson McCall, was sheriff of Henderson County. She graduated from Hendersonville High School in 1945 and attended Furman University. She has been a Raleigh resident since marrying Ryan David Bashford in 1949.Nancy was a long-time member of Fairmont...
