James Wilkie
Dec 30, 2012
James "Harvey" Wilkie, 84, of Greenville, S.C. Passed away December 30, 2012 after a period of declining health. He was a son of the late William Pinckney Wilkie and Beulah Tanner Wilkie of Polk County, N.C. He was a member of St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Greenville, S.C. He was a 1947 graduate of Brevard College and later received...
William Rogers
Dec 26, 2012
William Leroy Rogers Rosman – William Leroy Rogers, 78, passed away on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at his residence. A native of Transylvania County, he was the son of the late J. B. and Mildred Watkins Rogers. Mr. Rogers was a veteran of the U. S. Navy and was a member of V. F. W. Post #4309. He was employed...
Dorothy Geiser
Dec 22, 2012
Dorothy Ann Geiser, 79, passed away on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the Elizabeth House in Flat Rock, NC. A native of Brooklyn, NC she was the daughter of the late George Edward Stone and Josephine Cummings Stone. Along with her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Karl Geiser. Surviving are her sons, Edward Heilig and...
John Fisher
Dec 21, 2012
Brevard – John Frank "Big John" Fisher, 75, passed away on Friday, December 21, 2012 at his residence. A native of Transylvania County, "Big John" was the son of the late Frank Osborne Fisher and Wilma Lenore Chapman Fisher. He is also preceded in death by his sisters, Verona McDevitt and Betty Batson Johnson. "Big John" was a veteran of...
Gerald Hensley
Dec 19, 2012
Gerald Hensley, 69, passed away on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Transylvania Regional Hospital. A native of Transylvania County, he was the son of the late Junior and Willa Mae Cody Hensley. Mr. Hensley was a retired Corporate Accountant with P. H. Glatfelter and was a member and Past President of the National Accountants Association. He was a member of...
Randall Buford
Dec 14, 2012
Randall Vaughn Buford, 21, of Pisgah Forest passed away Friday, Dec 14th, 2012 while serving in 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Camp Lejeune, NC. Randy served in Afghanistan from January to July of this year. Randy was a 2009 graduate of Brevard High School and Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 703. He loved to sing and act and make...
Austin Raines
Dec 8, 2012
Austin Sanford Raines Brevard – Austin Sanford Raines, 81, passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at The Oaks of Brevard. A native of Transylvania County, he was the son of the late James Kirby Raines and Gertrude Eubanks Raines and was the husband of the late Anna Lee Holden Raines. He was also preceded in death by his sisters,...
Ray Hollingsworth
Dec 7, 2012
Ray Vic Hollingsworth, 53, passed away unexpectedly, Friday, December 7, 2012, in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Vic was born May 13, 1959, in Brevard, North Carolina. A graduate of Harris School of Art & Design in Franklin, Tennessee, Vic worked for 23 years at Asheville Citizen Time as a graphic designer. In addition he was an accomplished artist who enjoyed sharing...
Inez Moore
Dec 5, 2012
Brevard – Inez Lail Moore, 86, passed away on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at Transylvania Regional Hospital. She was born in Robbinsville, NC to the late Charles and Clemmie Garland Lail. Mrs. Lail was also preceded in death by her husband, Lewis Norman Moore, and a son, Benny Norman Moore. Surviving are her daughters, Doris Galloway and husband L. E....
Lester English
Dec 3, 2012
Mills River – Lester Elliott English, 98, passed away on Monday, December 3, 2012 at the Elizabeth House, Flat Rock, NC. A lifelong resident of the Boylston Community, he was the son of the late Weldon and Alice Cagle English. He was also preceded in death by his brothers, Charlie, Harvey, Henry, Lee, Neal, John, and Tom English, and sisters,...
Rebecca Smith
Dec 3, 2012
Rebecca Hannah Smith Brevard – Rebecca Hannah Smith, 60, passed away on Monday, December 3, 2012 at Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, CA. A native of Providence, RI, she was the daughter of the late Harry B. and May Gaffney Smith. She is also preceded in death by her brothers, Harry B. Smith III, Raymond Smith, and Wayne E. Smith, and...
Laura Stamey
Nov 28, 2012
Laura Pauline Raines Stamey, 64, of Rosman died Wednesday, November 28, 2012. A native of Transylvania County, she was the daughter of Etta Ella'V Eubanks Raines and the late Davis Cleamon Raines. She was also preceded in death by her husband Robert Lee Stamey; a sister, Elizabeth Cheryl Ann Raines Toole; and a grandson, William Coot Harris. Mrs. Stamey served...
Conley Mc Kinnish
Nov 26, 2012
Pisgah Forest – Conley Newton McKinnish, 91, passed away on Monday, November 26, 2012. A native of Buncombe County, he was the son of the late Ellenia Ball McKinnish and Wesley F. McKinnish. He was also preceded in death by a daughter-in-law, Jackie Fox McKinnish. Mr. McKinnish was a veteran of WW II, serving in the European Theater with the...
Sherry Reddekopp
Nov 25, 2012
Sherry Louise English Reddekopp of Sapphire died Sunday November 25, 2012. She was born June 26, 1960 in Silverton Oregon to the late Wayne and Louise Buchanan English. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her son Nathan W. Reddekopp and two brothers Steven and Jerry English. Survivors Include her husband Steven F. Reddekopp, two daughters,...
Joyce Alexander
Nov 19, 2012
Pisgah Forest – Joyce Moses Alexander, 84, passed away on Monday, November 19, 2012 at her residence. A native of Macon County, she was the daughter of the late Olney Edison Moses and Dessie Alveda Ammons Moses. She was also preceded in death by her son, Danny Alexander, and several brothers and sisters. Mrs. Alexander was a member of Turkey...
Winston Mccall
Nov 16, 2012
Winston R. (Bill) McCall of Pisgah Forest, North Carolina and Avon Park, Florida passed away on November 16, 2012. He was the sixth generation of the Samuel and Eleanor McCall family who settled in the area of The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1803 that would later become Transylvania County. Mr. McCall was the last surviving son of...
Hilda Sanders
Nov 14, 2012
Hilda Sanders Hilda Sanders, 81, passed away on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at her home. She was born in Salzburg, Austria, where she met and married Cecil C. Sanders in 1950. They retired to Sapphire in 1975. Hilda is preceded in death by her eldest daughter, Irma Sanders Sheldon. She is survived by her husband, Cecil C. Sanders; daughter, Sandy...
Fred Bryson
Nov 14, 2012
Fred Clifton Bryson Brevard – Fred Clifton Bryson, 94, passed away on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. A native of Jackson County, he was the son of the late Dewitt and Mima Miller Bryson. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Ellen Moody Bryson, a son, Fred Bryson, Jr., sisters, Margaret Hare, Myrtle Pollock, and Maybell Waldrop, and...
