Obituaries

Lillian Berry Silvers

Lillian Berry Silvers, age 85, of Saw Mill Hollow, passed away on Thursday, March 28th, 2024 at Care Partners Solace Center.  A native of Yancey County, she was a daughter of the late Charlie and Della Bryant...Read More

Dorothy “Dotty” Morgan

Dorothy “Dotty” Morgan, age 87, of Celo Community passed away gracefully in peace in her home on March 23, 2024 attended by her partner, Paul Lundquist.+ She was born May 13, 1936 to the late George and Dorothy...Read More

Larry Bruce McKinney

Larry Bruce McKinney, aged 70, of Wilmington, NC, peacefully passed away on March 25, 2024, after a brave battle with Cancer. Born on September 18, 1953, in the Grassy Creek Community of Spruce Pine. Larry was a...Read More

Betty Herbst

Betty Herbst, age 88, passed away March 25, 2024. Betty was born in her home in Spear, N.C., the daughter of Ebbie Greene Shook and Charles Shook. She was raised in North Carolina and met her husband,...Read More

Joyce Elaine Buchanan Mabe (Tootie)

Joyce Elaine Buchanan Mabe (Tootie) age 79 of Spruce Pine passed away Tuesday March 26, 2024, at the Turkey Creek Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.  They will be announced when finalized. Words of...Read More

Joe Ellis

Joe Ellis, age 75, of the Buladean Community in Bakersville, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2024 at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine. No services are planned at this time. Words of comfort may be e-mailed...Read More

Carol Ann Styles

Carol Ann Styles, age 81, of Banner Elk, went Home to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 at Life Care Center of Banner Elk.  A native of Mitchell County, she was the daughter of...Read More

Richard McKinney

Richard ‘Abe’ McKinney, age 71, of Duncan Street in Spruce Pine, passed away Friday, March 22, 2024 at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine. Born on June 4, 1952 in Mitchell County, he was the son...Read More

 Patricia “Trish” Geneva Habanec

Patricia “Trish” Geneva Habanec, age 56, of the Jacks Creek Community, passed away on Monday, March 18th, 2024 at CarePartners Solace Center.  A native of Yancey County, she was a daughter of Grace Fox and the late...Read More

Anthony Dean Pitman

Anthony Dean Pitman, age 63, passed away March 18, 2024 after an extended battle with cancer. Dean was the son of the late Horace and Nell Henline Pitman of Beaver Creek Road in Spruce Pine, NC. Left...Read More

Paul Buchanan

Paul Buchanan, age 72 of Hanging Rock Road, Spruce Pine the Green Valley Community passed away Friday, March 15, 2024. No services are planned at this time. Words of comfort may be e-mailed to the family by...Read More

John Mark Cole

John Mark Cole, age 65, of Bakersville, NC, the Fork Mountain Community, passed away on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at his home. He was the son of the late Milt and Nellie Phillips Cole. In addition to...Read More

Annette Lee Simpson

Annette Lee Simpson, a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on March 12, 2024, in Henderson County, North Carolina. She was born on July 10, 1937, in Yancey County, North Carolina. Annette is survived by her...Read More

Eddie Carrol Garland

Eddie Carrol Garland, age 70 of Bakersville, NC the Buladean Community passed away March 15, 2024. He was a son of the late Dallas and Julia Benge Garland. He was a Veteran of The United States Marine Corp. and was employed...Read More

Ann Hart Savage

Wilma “Ann” Hart Savage, age 90, of Green Mountain, NC, passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. She was born May 23, 1933, in Atlanta, GA to the late William Glenn Hart and...Read More

Alfred Orsini

Alfred Orsini age 90 of Spruce Pine the Gouges Creek community passed away Thursday March 14, 2024. Born in Cuba he was a son of the late Domingo and Francisca Sanchez Orsini. In addition to his parents,...Read More

Annette Garland Byrd

Annette Garland Byrd, age 88, of the Red Hill Community, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 14th, 2024 at the Mitchell House. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, March...Read More

Connie Edwards Camby

Connie Edwards Camby age 57 of Burnsville passed away Saturday March 9, 2024, at the Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine, Born in Yancey County she was the daughter of Fieldon “Phil” Edwards and the late...Read More

Donald “Pop” Loftis

Donald “Pop” Loftis, age 81, of Celo, went Home to be with the Lord on Monday, March 11th, 2024 at CarePartners Solace Center in Asheville.  A native of McDowell County, he was raised in the Rock Creek...Read More

James Samuel “Sam” Loftis

James Samuel “Sam” Loftis, age 75, of Rock Creek, passed away on Friday, March 8th, 2024. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late Walter and Myrtle Wilson Loftis. He was also preceded...Read More

William Daniel Elliott

William Daniel Elliott, age 79, of Newdale, NC passed away on Friday, March 8, 2024, at home surrounded by his family. William, better known as Danny, graduated from East Yancey High School in 1962. Danny led the...Read More

Susan Lynn Plumridge

Susan Lynn Plumridge, age 59 of Spruce Pine passed away Friday March 8, 2024, at the Memorial Campus of Mission Hospital in Asheville. Arrangements are incomplete at this time.  They will be announced when they have been...Read More

Georgia Thomas McClellan

Georgia McClellan of Spruce Pine the Gouges Creek community passed away Thursday March 7, 2024, at the Mitchell House in Spruce Pine. Born February 27, 1929, in Mitchell County, she was a daughter of the late Wilburn...Read More

Jessie Earl Johnson

Jessie Earl Johnson went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024.  He resided in Yancey County, originally from Silk Hope in Chatham County. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby Johnson;...Read More

Edna Barnett Huskins

Edna Barnett Huskins, age 65, of Crabtree Road in Spruce Pine passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine. Born in Mitchell County on April 13, 1958, she was the daughter...Read More

Gary Ted Burleson

Gary Ted Burleson age 70, of Spruce Pine the Altapass community passed away Sunday March 3, 2024, at his home. Born in Mitchell County, he was a son of Agnes Biddix Burleson and the late Lawrence Burleson....Read More

Hazel Tolley Grindstaff

Hazel Tolley Grindstaff age 85 of Spruce Pine, passed away Saturday March 2, 2024, at the Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine surrounded by her loved ones. She was a daughter of the late John and...Read More

Mona Louise Harrison

Mona was born May 25th, 1948 and passed away on Saturday, March 2nd 2024. She was married to Edwin Bennett who passed on February 2nd, 2006. She was the daughter of Lloyd Harrison and Elna Westall. Mona...Read More

Edward Lee “Ed” Hoover

Edward Lee “Ed” Hoover, age 84, of Spruce Pine, passed away on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at Mission Hospital in Asheville.  A native of Yancey County, Ed was one of eleven children to the late Jessie and...Read More

Kaye Buchanan Berg

Kaye Buchanan Berg, age 76 of Elizabethton, TN passed away February 27, 2024. She was a native of Mitchell County, NC and a daughter of the late Stokes and Ruth Yelton Palmer Buchanan. She was previously employed...Read More

Jessie Wilson Woody

On February 22, 2024, Jessie Wilson Woody left her home here to spend eternity in Heaven with her Lord. Born in the Pensacola Community of Yancey County on January 18, 1932, she was a daughter of the...Read More

Joyce Fox Gravitt

Joyce Fox Gravitt, born on May 22, 1935, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at Smoky Ridge Health and Rehabilitation in Burnsville, NC. A native of Yancey County, she was the daughter of the late...Read More

John Chandler Edwards

John Chandler Edwards, age 78, of Hughes Gap Road in the Buladean Community, passed away on Sunday, February 18th, 2024 at John H. Quillen V.A. Medical Center. A native of Los Angeles, California, he was a son...Read More

Vinson Norman Hensley

Vinson Norman Hensley, age 83, of the Bakers Creek Community, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 18th, 2024 at his home surrounded by his loving family.  A native of Yancey County, he was...Read More

Jacqueline Mae Thomas

Jacqueline Mae Thomas age 62 of Greenwood Road in Spruce Pine passed away Sunday February 18, 2024, at her residence. Born in Oswego, NY, she was a daughter of the late Cyrus Henry and Melrose Cuyler Thomas....Read More

Charles Lee Ray

Charles Lee Ray, age 82, of Mars Hill, formerly of Burnsville, went Home to be with the Lord on Saturday, February 17th, 2024 at his home surrounded by his loving family.  A native of Yancey County, he...Read More

Dorothy Webb McKinney

Dorothy Webb McKinney, age 88, of Roaring Creek, went Home to be with the Lord on Friday, February 16th, 2024 at her residence surround by her family. A native of Avery County, she was a daughter of...Read More

Robert Gregory Rouse

Greg Rouse, age 57, of Newland, went Home to be with the Lord on February 14th, 2024, at his home. A native of Pitt County, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Roy and Bette...Read More

Glenda Jean Wilson

Glenda Jean Wilson, age 64, of Burnsville, went Home to be with the Lord on Thursday, February 15th, 2024. A native of Mitchell County, she was a daughter of Glen Robert Braswell and the late Rachel Marie...Read More

Jerry Sherman Waycaster

Jerry Sherman Waycaster, age 77, of Elk Park, passed away on Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 at his home.  A native of Buck Mountain, NC, he was a son of the late Robert and Martha Smith Waycaster.  He...Read More

Vonda Elkins Owensby

Vonda Elkins Owensby, age 78, of Burnsville, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 at her home surrounded by her loving family.  A native of Yancey County, she was the daughter of...Read More

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