Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Richmond county


Robert Van Lindsey

Robert Van Lindsey

Mar 22, 2011

Robert Van Lindsey, 85, of 424 Cartledge Creek Road, Rockingham, died Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham. Mr. Lindsey was born August 3, 1925 in Davidson County, North Carolina, a son of the late Melvin and Lena Smith Lindsey. He served his country during World War II in the United States Navy, receiving 4 Bronze...

Johnny Houston Ard

Johnny Houston Ard

Mar 20, 2011

Johnny Houston Ard, 58 , of 257 Homeplace Rd. Rockingham, died Sunday, March 20, 2011, at his home. Mr. Ard was born June 20, 1952 in Richmond County, a son of the late Woodrow and Ora Ivey Ard. He had served his country in the US Army, was a member of the AmVets and had been employed with Pilot Life...

Christine Southerland Yow

Christine Southerland Yow

Mar 19, 2011

Christine Southerland Yow, 92 of 405 Deweese Ave Rockingham, N.C. died Saturday, March 19, 2011 at her son’s home. Mrs. Yow was born January 31, 1919 in Sampson County a daughter of the late Herbert and Florence Hooker Southerland. She grew up in the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh N.C. She worked as a secretary at L.J. Bell School in Rockingham...

Barbara Sessoms Benson

Barbara Sessoms Benson

Mar 15, 2011

Mrs. Barbara Sessoms Benson, 62 of Rockingham died Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at Sandhills Regional Hospital in Hamlet. Barbara was born January 7, 1949, the first child born in Henrietta, Texas that year, for this distinction, the town gave her a pair of red cowboy boots. She was a daughter of the late Herbert H. and Theresa Kish Sessoms. She...

Donald Edward Kinney

Donald Edward Kinney

Mar 14, 2011

Donald Edward Kinney, 73, of 163 West Church Street, Ellerbe, died Monday, March 14,2011 at his home. Don was born December 3, 1937 in Wayne County, Michigan, a son of the late Ted Devere and Helen Gertrude Adams Kinney. He was a graduate of Kalamazoo (MI) Central High School, Class of 1955, had served his country in the US Air...

Frank Garrett Smith

Frank Garrett Smith

Mar 14, 2011

Frank Garrett Smith, 88, of Ellerbe, died Monday, March 14, 2011 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. Mr. Smith was born August 27, 1922 in Richmond County, a son of the late Richmond David and Martha Frances Frazier Smith. He had graduated from Ellerbe High School, served his country in the US Navy during World War II, and...

Nolan Lane Richardson

Nolan Lane Richardson

Mar 8, 2011

Nolan Lane Richardson, SFC, US Army (Ret) , 66, of Rockingham, died Tuesday, March 08, 2011 at Firsthealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. Sgt. Richardson was born November 28, 1944 in Richmond County, NC, a son of the late S.H. and Lula Wilkins Richardson. His career was serving his country in the US Army, having served 2 years in Vietnam....

Kathy Lynn Quick

Kathy Lynn Quick

Feb 28, 2011

Miss Kathy Lynn Quick 31, of 254 Lakeview Trail Rockingham died Monday, February 28, 2011 at FirstHeath Moore Regional Hospital. She was born March 26, 1979 in Richmond County a daughter of Silas and Mary Cooke Quick. She is survived by her parents Silas and Mary Cooke Quick, five sisters Susan Q. Martinez, Lori Q. Warren, Janet Q. Hall, Linda...

Ophelia Shaw Stutts

Ophelia Shaw Stutts

Feb 27, 2011

Ophelia Catherine Shaw Stutts, 85, of 2108 Brookbank Rd., Rockingham, passed away Sunday, February 27, 2011 at her home. Mrs. Stutts was born September 24, 1925 in Stanly County, NC, a daughter of the late Harry Price and Cora Lee Caudle Shaw. She was a member of Rourk Presbyterian Church where she had been a Sunday School teacher, member of...

Evelyn Driggers McNeil

Evelyn Driggers McNeil

Feb 27, 2011

Evelyn Driggers Eddings Wright McNeil, 91, of Gattis St., Cordova, died Sunday, February 27, 2011 at her home. Mrs. McNeil was born August 9,1919 in Marlboro County, SC, a daughter of the late Ed and Bessie Grant Driggers. She was a member of Sweet Haven Church and had previously worked with Carolina Paper Company, Buttercup Creamory and the Brown Derby...

Betty Chloe Burns

Betty Chloe Burns

Feb 24, 2011

Betty Chloe Honeycutt Burns, 63, of Holiday Village, Rockingham, died Thursday, February 24, 2011 at her home. Mrs. Burns was born June 1, 1947 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Wilbert and Mary Guinn Honeycutt. She was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband, Garnett R. Burns and a daughter, Maryann Butler. Surviving are a...

Dawn Michele Kelly

Dawn Michele Kelly

Feb 23, 2011

Dawn Michele Kelly, 41, of Hamlet, died Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. Miss Kelly was born January 7, 1970 in Richmond County, a daughter of Everett Lee Kelly, Jr. and Bonnie Carol Blakely Kelly. Surviving are her parents, Everett and Bonnie Kelly of Hamlet; brother, Eric Kelly of Rockingham; sisters, Sonja Kelly-Escobar of...

G.C. Goffie Carlyle Luther

G.C. Goffie Carlyle Luther

Feb 19, 2011

Mr. “G.C.” Goffie Carlyle Luther, 87 of Clemmons N.C passed away Saturday, February 19, 2011 at Forsyth Medical Center. G.C was born in Wallace, S.C. February 11, 1924 a son of the late Carl and Edna Mae Luther. He served his country in WW II in the U.S. Army. He was a logging contractor and sawmill operator. He is survived...

Phillip Hunter Richardson

Phillip Hunter Richardson

Feb 19, 2011

Phillip Hunter Richardson, 47, of Mt. Gilead, died Saturday, February 19, 2011 at University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill. Mr. Richardson was born April 20, 1963 in Moore County, a son of Rachel Nelson Richardson Wright and the late Otis Lee Richardson. He was a graduate of West Montgomery High School, Class of 1981 and was employed with...

Chuck Nuttall

Chuck Nuttall

Feb 18, 2011

Reginald Kenneth “Chuck” Nuttall, 60, of Rockingham, died Friday, February 18, 2011 at his home. Mr. Nuttall was born August 6, 1950 in Richmond County, a son of R.G. Nuttall and the late Josephine Jackson Nuttall. He served his country in the US Army and had been employed in Maintenance in HVAC. In addition to his mother, he was preceded...

Frances Wilson Tuttle

Frances Wilson Tuttle

Feb 18, 2011

Frances Wilson Tuttle, 76 of Rockingham died Friday February 18, 2011 at Richmond Pines Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Hamlet. She was born November 2, 1934 in Mecklenburg County a daughter of the late John and Mary Broom Wilson. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph C. Tuttle Sr. and a sister Jean Jordan....

Ella Ruth Edwards

Ella Ruth Edwards

Feb 17, 2011

Mrs. Ella Ruth Diggs Edwards, 86 went to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, February 17, 2011. Ella Ruth was born November 15, 1924 in Richmond County a daughter of the late John and Lula Saunders Diggs. She was a loving and kind Mother who devoted her life to the Lord and caring for and loving her family....

Roy Levern Grooms

Roy Levern Grooms

Feb 14, 2011

Roy Levern Grooms, 71 of 174 Shannon Drive Rockingham died Monday, February 14, 2011 at his home. Mr. Grooms was born December 6, 1939 in Chesterfield County, S.C. a son of the late Archie and Eva McLain Grooms. He served his country in the U.S. Army. He worked in Construction. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death...

Buena Vista Coggin

Buena Vista Coggin

Feb 11, 2011

Mrs. Buena Vista Rankin Coggin, 83, of Rockingham, died Friday, February 11, 2011 at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham. Mrs. Coggin was born January 8, 1928 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Hope and Gladys Thomas Rankin. She was a graduate of Ellerbe High School, Class of 1945, and also a graduate of the School for Executive...

Mildred Smith Martin

Mildred Smith Martin

Feb 11, 2011

Mildred Louise Flowers Smith Martin, 81, of Rockingham, died Friday, February 11, 2011 at Britthaven of Hamlet. Mrs. Martin was born February 11, 1930 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Claude William and Ruth Putman Flowers. She was a member of First Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she had been pianist and a Sunday school teacher. She retired from...

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