Thomasville Deaths and Funerals Highlights
Obituaries from Thomasville and nearby areas list George Dewey Hilton Berry Thomas Boykin Mae Tysinger Sherry Dorsett Jasper Cates Maude Bullard Crawford Dyson Long Joseph Crawford and other local figures. Details include birthplacesDeath dates funeral times burial sites and family contacts across multiple towns.
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Berry T. Boykin Graham
Berry Thomas Boykin
McClure Funeral Home
M. O. Lineberry
Frank Gribble
Graham Memorial Park
Mr. Boykin
Alamance County Hospital
Death Ruled As Accidental
Medical Examiner Dr. Eugene Terrell ruled Miss Sharon Sue Penley’s death accidental. An autopsy in Chapel Hill found her death caused by a combination of alcohol and headache medication. Deputies reported she had been drinking heavily at a Jamestown tavern before her body was found in a friend's apartment at Jamestown Village.
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Eugene Terrell
Sharon Sue Penley
Long Street
Terrell
Chapel Hill
Guilford County
Miss Penley
Jamestown Village
Victory Symphony nickname born from wartime Morse V link
The phrase The Victory Symphony refers to Beethoven's Fifth, a wartime nickname coined during World War II as the opening motif of the first movement resembled the Morse Code signal for V.
HPC Expects Fund Total of Fifty Five Thousand
High Point College alumni expect over 55000 in the annual giving fund for the fiscal year ending May 31. More than 1400 contributions have reached the alumni headquarters. The final total will be announced at the Alumni Assn executive committee meeting July 24 in the Holt McPherson Campus Center. Robert Rankin chairs the fund. Lyles H. Kearns heads the constitutional committee. Mrs. Dell C. Johnson presides at the luncheon in Winston Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point College
Lyles H. Kearns
Young's Rug and Furniture Co., Inc
Holt McPherson
Dell C. Johnson
Winston Salem
Alumni Association
The Future Lies Not Tomorrow Belief Refuted
A reflective aphorism argues that progress depends on acting now rather than postponing hope to a later day. It warns that trusting in a future daystered to come ensures stagnation and erodes possibility.
Board Denies Rezoning Bid for 2-Acre Fleming Road Site
Guilford County Commissioners rejected a rezoning request for a 2 acre tract northwest of Greensboro intended for a planned unit development. Residents urged caution over tract building and traffic, while Percy Sears called the move premature. the denial followed planning board rejection.
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Jim Hawkins
Stafi
Greensboro
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Kent Lively
Fleming Road
al Lewis
Ervin Co
Walt
Percy Sears
Guilford County Planning Board
Local arrests include multiple Drunk Driving and Drug Possession charges
Police arrested Judy Parrish Richardson 27 of Route 3 Thomasville for drunken driving failure to heed a blue light and siren and resisting officers. Also charged over the weekend were Harold Delano Richardson 40 Route 6 Thomasville Charles Ray Flower 31 Willow Street and Thomas Duncan Butler 0 Jamestown with drunken driving.
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Mike Jay Burger
Barker Street
Thomas Dale Grice
W. Kearns Street
Nicholas Holdbrook Holden
S. Main Street
Judy Parrish Richardson
Rt. 3
Thomasville
Harold Delano Richardson
Rt. 6
Charles Ray Flower
Willow Street
Thomas Duncan Butler
Jamestown
Texas Youth Is Killed In Accident
A 15 year old Garland boy, Walner Michell Burnette, was killed when a pickup driven by Deborah Lois Ferguson westbound on a rural unpaved road near Red Cross lost control, crossed the road, overturned on an embankment, police say. Ferguson was charged with exceeding a safe speed after the crash. The driver was hospitalized with multiple injuries.
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RED Cross
Walner Michell Burnette
Garland
Texas
Highway
W. P. Garner
Burnette
Deborah Lois Ferguson
Randolph Hospital
Youths Charged With School Vandalism
Thomasville police named a 16 year-old charged in the Sunday vandalism at Main Street Elementary. Two other juvenile males were arrested. Richard Lee Shively of Montlieu Avenue faced felonious breaking and entering and attempted arson after a wooden desk stuffed with papers was ignited. Fire department received a call at 8:20 p.m. smoke came from the three story brick building. Over 20 rooms prepared for opening week were ransacked. Principal Jennings Withers said cleaning would take three to four days.
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Thomasville
Main Street
Richard Lee Shively
Montlieu Avenue
Jennings Withers
Withers
Oldest State House Still In Use In Maryland
The Maryland State House, built in 1722, briefly hosted the Continental Congress and remains the oldest state house in use. It has been expanded to house the offices of the governor and the state legislature.
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Maryland
Continental Congress
Cyclist Injured Early Sunday in Thomasville Mishap
Kirby L Kennedy of Rt 4 Thomasville remained in satisfactory condition under intensive care after a motorcycle crash on Ragan Road around 1 15 a m Sunday. In a separate incident Verenda Rae Smith 22 and Deborah Diane Frye 21 of Greensboro sustained minor injuries when their motorcycle overturned after a flat tire Saturday afternoon they were treated and released at Community General Hospital near Pilot along I 85.
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Thomasville
Kirby L. Kennedy
Rt. 4
Community General Hospital
Kennedy
Ragan Road
Greensboro
Verenda Rae Smith
Deborah Diane Frye
Pilot
Why Men Wish to Reach the Moon and Space Age Benefits
Andy explains the moon mission as the dawn of the space age and the vast rewards. Space advances come from teamwork among experts. satellites provide weather images, resource surveys, and crop data. The piece links space research to everyday tech gains and public curiosity.
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Moon
Space
City moves electrical operations to separate department
The prior City Council directed transferring electrical services from the Utilities Dept to a new department. City Manager Harold Cheek is implementing the change.
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City Utilities Dept
Harold Cheek
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hilton
George Dewey Hilton
Hasty School
High Point Memorial Hospital
Mr. Hilton
Davidson County
Robert Thomas
Hattie Peace Hilton
J. C. Green and Sons
Coy Crowe
Clayton Kennedy
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church
Bill Hilton
Rt. G. Thomasville
Mae Tysinger
Mae Morgan Tysinger
Trindale Baptist Church
Stanley Karomirski
Ray Long
Glenora Baptist Church
Juanita Hamilton
Sherry Dorsett
Sherry Laraine Dorsett
Rt. 11
Silver Valley Community
Lexington
Randolph Memorial Hospital
Asheboro
Elzie Dorsett
Varnall Leonard Dorsett
Silver Valley
Silver Valley Lutheran Church
Vernall Leonard Dorsett
Sharon Lynn Dorsett
Jeanette Klass
Rt. 2
Buddy Dorsett
Albert Weavil
Route 1
Siler Funeral Home
Old United Methodist Church
W. J. Cates
William Jasper Cates
Cloverdale St
North Carolina Baptist Hospital
Mr. Cates
Alamance County
James
Zonia Murray
High Point
Cloverdale Dye Works
American Legion
Juanita Caudle
Bill (Yallie) Childress
Rt. 1
Sophia
Oscar
Lillie) Lamb
Culler Place
Cumby Mortuary
Maude Bullard Randleman
Maude Ward Bullard
Pleasant Garden
Centre Friends Meeting
United Society of Friends Women
George C. Bullard
James L. Bullard
Leonard Breedlove
Bob Medford
Church
Earl Cranford
Zora Norton Crawford
Route 7
N.C. Memorial Hospital
Bossong Hosiery Mills
Earl Crawford
Catherine Beard
Fayetteville
Grace B
Freeman
Louisa
Hubert
Luther Norton
Crew, Va
Pugh Funeral Home Chapel
Randolph Memorial Park
N. G. Guyer
Nathan Gaither Guyer
Rt. 8
Sumner
Wesley Long Hospital
Sumner Missionary Baptist Church
J. W. Middleton
J. A. Guyer
Clarence Guyer
Randleman
Hanes- Lineberry Vanstory Street Chapel
J. M. Alfred
Billy Hoffman
Guilford Memorial Park
T. F. Dyson Biscoe
Tommie Franklin Dyson
Biscoe
Montgomery
Woodmen of the World Lodge
Masonic Ge
Biscoe Presbyterian Church
Lena Dyson
J. M. Dyson
Warrenton
Clinton Spivey
Donald E. Bailey
Greenville
Paul Maness
Elizabeth Huggins
Aynor
S.C
Biscoe Cemetery
Phillips Funeral Home
Star
L. F. Long
Perdita Crawford Long
Sunset Ave
Duke Hospital
Leonard F. Long
Patricia D. Prather
Shirley A. Dick
Homer
Martha Crawford
Edna Weaver
Clyde Crawford
Houston
Jernigan- Warren Funeral Home Chapel
Rock Fish Cemetery
Joseph C. Crawford
Joseph Clarence Crawford
Bluefield St
Durham
Veterans Hospital
Mr. Crawford
Joseph C
Alice Broadway Crawford Jr
A & T State University
82Nd Airborne Division
Fonda Steele Crawford
Robinette Denise Crawford
J.C. Crawford Jr
Windley St
Mignonette Steed
Runyon Dr
James Crawford
Edessa Crawford
Ethel Broadway
Baltimore
Hairlip Funeral Chapel
Carolina Biblical Garden
Haizlip Funeral Home
Calvin Steed Jr
Canby Mortuary
Chestnut Dr
William Cates
Lexington Ave
Vite
HPC
Ilip
SAVE
Thigh Point
Andy
Joan Fleckenstein
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Canada
Wilbur
Orville
Wright Brothers
Ronnie Fowler
Boiestown
N.B
Baby Soft
Santéwacrraners
Haizlip Funeral Home, Inc
Fourth St
Church Street
Volkswagen
Dasher
Asher W
DON Gilstrap, Inc
North Main ST
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