OBITUARIES

Christine Gillespie

Christine Gillespie

Apr 21, 2024

Christine Gillespie, 92, of Reidsville, passed away on April 21, 2024. A private graveside service will be held at Reidlawn Cemetery. Christine was born in Rockingham County to the late Frank Harrison and Beulah Stone Morton. She was a longtime member of Freedom Baptist Church and was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. In addition to her parents, she was...

Douglas Ray Jones

Douglas Ray Jones

Apr 21, 2024

Douglas Ray Jones went singing to heaven on April 16, 2024. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 3 weeks before his death. Douglas was born in Reidsville NC to the parents John Richard Jones Sr. and Betty Wales Stewart Jones. Living in the Bethany area he attended Bethany Elementary School and graduated at Rockingham County Senior High School in 1979.



Douglas...

Beulah Magdalene Cox Bibee Lovelace (Tab)

Beulah Magdalene Cox Bibee Lovelace (Tab)

Apr 20, 2024

On Saturday afternoon, April 20, 2024, Beulah Magdalene Cox Bibee Lovelace ”Tab”, 90 of Bethany, NC, graciously went to her heavenly home, with her family by her side.A funeral service will be held at 3:00 PM, Thursday, April 25 2024 at Brown Summit Baptist Church, with Pastor Chad Williams, Reverend Carl Shelton, and Reverend Pat Bush officiating. Burial will follow...

Gladys Collins Walker

Gladys Collins Walker

Apr 19, 2024

Gladys Collins Walker - SummerfieldGladys Collins Walker, 86, of 1677 Brown Road, went home to be with the Lord on April 19, 2024, at the Gibson House, in Wentworth, NC.Funeral services will be held at 3:00 PM on Monday, April 22, 2024, at Wilkerson Funeral Home with Pastor Wesley Byerly officiating.  Burial will follow at Maple Lawn Baptist Church.  The...

Brenda Lasley Small

Brenda Lasley Small

Apr 19, 2024

Brenda Lasley Small, 81, of Summerfield, passed away on Friday, April 19, 2024, at Moses Cone Hospital.Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, April 22, 2024, at Sharon Baptist Church with Pastor Kevin Duncan officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends following the service in the church fellowship hall and other times...

Brenda Ashby Hand

Brenda Ashby Hand

Apr 19, 2024

Brenda Ashby Hand, 57, of Reidsville, passed away on Friday, April 19, 2024, at Wesley Long Community Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer.  Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Wilkerson Funeral Home with Pastor Johnny Roberts officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior...

Patricia "Pat" M. Caldwell

Patricia "Pat" M. Caldwell

Apr 18, 2024

Patricia "Pat" M. Caldwell, 81, of Reidsville went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 18, 2024.A funeral service will be held at 3:00 PM, on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at Covington Wesleyan Church with Rev. Ralph Clayton officiating. Burial will follow at Evergreen Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service and...

Wayne Foster Hicks

Wayne Foster Hicks

Apr 16, 2024

Wayne Hicks, 60, passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

A graveside service will be held at Reidlawn Cemetery on Monday, April 22, 2024, at 2:00 PM with Pastor Junior Kennon officiating.

Wayne was born in Rockingham County to Roy Hicks and Nancy Gwynn Eastwood. He enjoyed fishing, watching NASCAR and Carolina Basketball. He also enjoyed spending time...

Lawrence Everette McCollum

Lawrence Everette McCollum

Apr 16, 2024

Lawrence Everette McCollum passed away on April 16, 2024 at his home in Bethany.

 

Lawrence was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Truman and Mattie Everette McCollum, his sisters Yvette McCollum and Betty McCollum Laube, and his brother Robert LeVan McCollum, as well as his beloved daughter Sarah Rebekah McCollum-Webster.

 

Born in a three-room log cabin in Bethany, Lawrence began farming...

Nathaniel Clay Stone

Nathaniel Clay Stone

Apr 14, 2024

Nathaniel Clay Stone born 12-25-1938 , was called Home on 04-14-2024.   Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at Wilkerson Funeral Home, with Pastor Heath Lloyd and Pastor D.M. Dalton officiating. The burial will follow at Evergreen Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Clay will...

Virginia Ann Herndon Gunn

Virginia Ann Herndon Gunn

Apr 12, 2024

Virginia Ann Herndon Gunn, 84 years of age, became whole again and suffering no more on the morning of April 12th, 2024, at the Gibson House, in Wentworth, NC surrounded by her daughter and a group of angel nurses and aids.Virginia Ann Herndon was born February 17th, 1940, in Hamlet, NC to the late Clifford and Queenie Wynn Herndon. She...

Gordon Francis Poole, Jr.

Gordon Francis Poole, Jr.

Apr 10, 2024

Gordon Francis Poole, Jr., 70, of Reidsville passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

 

A graveside funeral service will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at Evergreen Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at Wilkerson Funeral Home.   Frank, as he was known to everyone that knew and loved him, was born August 17,...

Marie Rakestraw Irving

Marie Rakestraw Irving

Apr 10, 2024

Marie Rakestraw Irving, 91, passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at Penn Nursing Center surrounded by her family.Funeral services will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at Centenary United Methodist Church, 2415 Settle Bridge Rd., Stoneville, NC, with Dr. Patricia Spicer and Pastor Marty Brim officiating. Burial will immediately follow in the church cemetery. The family...

Pamela Ann Setliff

Pamela Ann Setliff

Apr 9, 2024

Pamela Ann Setliff, 60, of Reidsville, went to her forever home to be with The Lord after her courageous battle with cancer for 6 years on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at the Gibson House Ancora Compassionate Care / Rockingham County Hospice.Pamela was born in Rockingham County on June 18, 1963. After she graduated from Rockingham County High School and getting...

Joyce Faye Roughton

Joyce Faye Roughton

Apr 7, 2024

Joyce Faye Roughton, 90, passed away peacefully at her home on April 7, 2024.Joyce was born in Philadelphia County, PA to the late Samuel and Sadie Affleck. She graduated from Germantown High School before attending Guilford Technical Community College where she obtained a technical Art Degree. Joyce worked as a media assistant for Guilford County Schools, where she retired after...

Clyde Henry Minor, Sr.

Clyde Henry Minor, Sr.

Apr 5, 2024

Clyde Henry Minor, Sr., 75, of Reidsville, passed away on Friday, April 5, 2024, at Cypress Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, April 8, 2024, at Evergreen Memory Gardens with Rev. Andrew Brown officiating.   

Clyde was born in Rockingham County to the late Jasper Thomas Minor and Bertha Wall Minor.  He served...

Patricia "Pat" O Wilson

Patricia "Pat" O Wilson

Apr 1, 2024

Patricia O. Wilson, 66, passed away on Monday, April 1st, 2024, at her home.

A memorial service will be held at Wilkerson Funeral Home on Friday, April 5, 2024 at 11:00 AM with Rev. Mickey Alcorn officiating. The family will receive friends briefly after the service.

Pat was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky to Ann O’mara and the late Thomas P. O’mara....

Jean Ann Cunningham

Jean Ann Cunningham

Mar 31, 2024

Jean Ann Cunningham, 92, passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024.A memorial service will be held in her honor at 3:00 PM on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at Emanuel Baptist Church located at 1401 Washington Street, West Charleston, West Virginia, 25387. The family will receive friends At 2:0 PM before the...

Alice Joyce Hanks

Alice Joyce Hanks

Mar 29, 2024

Alice Joyce Hanks, 91, of Gibsonville went home to be with The Lord after her courageous battle with cancer for over 20 years on Friday, March 29, 2024, at Linden Place Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.Graveside funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at Glencoe United Methodist Church Cemetery. Pastor Matthew Johnson officiating. The family will...

Brenda Joyce Puckett McMath

Brenda Joyce Puckett McMath

Mar 29, 2024

Brenda Joyce Puckett McMath of McLeansville, NC (66) was unexpectedly called home by her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on March 29th, 2024, at Moses Cone Hospital, in Greensboro, NC.  Brenda was born to Billy Ray and Rosa “Annette” (Calhoun) Puckett on March 3rd, 1958, at Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville, NC.Brenda graduated from Northeast High School in 1977. After...

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