Obituary Listing

Maggie Ingle

Maggie Ingle

Mar 14, 2005

Leicester - Maggie Blanche Spivey Ingle, 84, of 28 Soloman Road died Monday, March 14, 2005 at her residence following a extended illness. A lifelong resident of Buncombe County. Mrs. Ingle was a homemaker and a member of Corinth Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Soloman Cleveland Spivey and Grace Louella McFalls Spivey. She was also...

Leonard Woodrow Hawkins

Leonard Woodrow Hawkins

Mar 12, 2005

Candler - Leonard Woodrow Hawkins of Candler passed away peacefully Saturday - March 12, 2005 at St. Josephs Hospital after a brief illness. Born April 12, 1917, he was a lifelong resident of Buncombe County. He was the youngest of ten children of the late B.G. Bid Hawkins and Lilly Snelson Hawkins. Leonard was retired from American Enka with...

Dot Mashburn Hoss

Dot Mashburn Hoss

Mar 12, 2005

Asheville - Deorthea Ann Dot Mashburn Stuart Hoss, 67, of 118 Benson Road, Passed away Saturday, March 12, 2005 at her home following a long illness. A native of Haywood County, she had resided in Buncombe County for most of her life. She was formerly employed as a CNA at Pisgah Manor Health Care Center and was a member...

Joseph Lloyd "Joe" Carter

Joseph Lloyd "Joe" Carter

Mar 11, 2005

Fletcher - Joseph Lloyd Carter, 78, of 10 Windy Oaks Drive, passed away Friday, March 11, 2005 at his home after a period of declining health. Mr. Carter was a native of Eastern Tennessee, but had resided in Henderson and Buncombe Counties for most of his life. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in Persia...

Louise Lance Hensley

Louise Lance Hensley

Mar 10, 2005

Asheville - Mary Louise Lance Hensley went to be with the Lord on Thursday March 10, 2005 surrounded by her family. She was born on February 5, 1925 in Henderson County and lived most of her life in Buncombe County. She was a daughter of the late Samuel and Minnie Collins Lance and the wife of the late Rev....

Annie Evelyn Edwards

Annie Evelyn Edwards

Mar 7, 2005

Alexander - Annie Evelyn Edwards, 83, of Fletcher Martin Road, passed away Monday, March 7, 2005 at Magnolia Health Care Center after a period of declining health. A native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County, she was a member of French Broad Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Jesse and Bessie Wilson Edwards. She was also...

Anna C. Morgan

Anna C. Morgan

Mar 5, 2005

Louisa, VA Anna Carson Morgan, 101, formerly of Chunns Cove Road, Asheville, died Saturday, March 5, 2005 at Amerisist Assisted Living in Louisa, Virginia. A lifelong resident of Asheville. She was the daughter of the late Samuel and Della Buckner Carson. She was known as the Grand Dame of the V.A. and volunteered at the V.A. Hospital in Asheville...

Edna Sue Marlowe

Edna Sue Marlowe

Mar 4, 2005

Asheville - Edna Sue Faulkner Marlowe, 93, died Friday, March 4, 2005 at the Beverly Health Care Center following a recent illness. A native of Madison County. Mrs. Marlowe resided in Buncombe County most of life, she was a homemaker, and was the oldest living member of Asheville Freewill Baptist Church, where she had served as church clerk, secretary...

Cecil Reeves Trexler

Cecil Reeves Trexler

Mar 4, 2005

Asheville - Cecil Reeves Trexler, 65, of 60 Fairfax Ave., died Friday, March 4, 2005 at the Magnolia Health Care Center following a period of declining health. A native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County and a graduate of Lee H. Edwards High School. He was an avid builder of R/C model cars, planes and boats. He also loved...

Annie Sue Lillard

Annie Sue Lillard

Mar 4, 2005

Asheville - Annie Sue Lillard, 71, of 539 Deaverview Road, died Friday, March 4, 2005 at Mountain Area Hospice following a long illness. A native of Haywood County, Mrs. Lillard resided in Buncombe County since 1956. She was formerly employed in patient services at St. Josephs Hospital and a member of Sunrise Baptist Church. She was a daughter of...

Dr. Claude Albee Frazier

Dr. Claude Albee Frazier

Mar 4, 2005

Biltmore Forest - Dr. Claude Albee Frazier, 84, of 347 Vanderbilt Road, went to be with his Heavenly Father on March 4 after a brief illness. Dr. Frazier was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and was a native of West Virginia, a state he proudly claimed. He earned his B.S. in chemistry from West Virginia Institute of Technology, graduating cum...

Carl Jackson Corn

Carl Jackson Corn

Mar 3, 2005

Asheville - Carl Jackson Corn, 79, of 138 Michigan Ave. went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 3, 2005. Mr. Corn was a native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County and a dedicated member of Riverside Baptist Church. He was a retired bricklayer and life member of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers for...

Mary Frances Penland

Mary Frances Penland

Mar 2, 2005

Asheville - Mary Frances Walsh Penland, 79 of 160 New Haw Creek Road went to be with the Lord on Wednesday March 2, 2005. A native of Asheville, she was the daughter of the late Allie Mae and Melvin Clenard Walsh. She was also preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Zeb B. Penland Sr.. Mrs Penland...

Ruth Goldsmith Houghton

Ruth Goldsmith Houghton

Mar 2, 2005

Candler - Ruth Goldsmith Houghton, 93, a resident of Pisgah Manor Health Care since 1999, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Houghton was born December 30, 1911 in Manhattan, NY to Jennie Edwards Hudson and Paul Harold Hudson. She was the eldest of four children, including the late Edward Warren Hudson (Elaine Duclos), Margaret Hudson Tuohig...

John Wesley Miller Jr.

John Wesley Miller Jr.

Feb 26, 2005

Fletcher - John Wesley Miller, Jr., 76, of 2 Bob Barnwell Rd. died Saturday February 26, 2005 at his residence after an extended illness. A native of Honaker, Va. he resided most of his life in Buncombe County. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII. He was a son of the late John Wesley Miller, Sr. and Laura...

Willie Pritchard

Willie Pritchard

Feb 25, 2005

Asheville - Willie Francis Bowers Pritchard, 101, of Asheville, went to be with the Lord on Friday, February 25, 2005. She was born in Hart County, Georgia on September 13, 1903 and was the last remaining child of 16 children born to Sanford Gordon Bowers and Mary Pinkney Texanna McGee Bowers. She was preceded in death by her husband,...

Charles Everette Pounders

Charles Everette Pounders

Feb 25, 2005

Asheville - Charles Everette Pounders, 65, of 30 Pounders Drive died Friday February 25, 2005 at his home after an extended illness. A native of Buncombe County, he had lived in California for several years before moving back in 1998. He was a son of the late Oscar Howard and Bertie Ellen Shook Pounders and was also preceded in...

Catherine Mae Nanney

Catherine Mae Nanney

Feb 24, 2005

Asheville - Catherine Mae Nanney, 70, of Ledgewood Village Apartments, died Thursday, February 24, 2005 at St. Joseph Hospital. A native and lifelong resident of Buncombe County, she was a 1954 graduate of Oakley High School, where she was May Queen. She was the daughter of the late Isaac and Bonnie Thompson Hendren. She was also preceded in death...

David Alan White

David Alan White

Feb 24, 2005

Leicester - David Alan White, 24, of 107 Gorman Road, went to be with the Lord Thursday, February 24, 2005 following injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Orlando, FL, he had been a resident of Buncombe County since 1998. He attended Georgetown Baptist Church, and was well liked by everyone he knew. He was the son of...

Frances L. Solesbee

Frances L. Solesbee

Feb 20, 2005

Mills River - Frances L. Allen Solesbee, 80, of Mills River went to be with the Lord, Sunday, February 20, 2005 following a long illness. Mrs. Solesbee was a native of Barnardsville, NC and the daughter of the late William J. Allen and Belle V. Carson Allen. Mrs. Solesbee graduated from Barnardsville High School and attended business school. She...