YOUNGSVILLE - James Rayford Ross, Jr. ,40, died Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010 at Duke Hospital in Durham. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at Rock Spring Baptist Church in Louisburg. Burial followed in Pine Forest Memorial Gardens.

He was born in Franklin County, son of Jeannette Lewis Ross and the late James Rayford Ross, Sr.

Surviving: his children, Joshua, Rebecca and Matthew Ross; mother, Jeannette Hicks (Homer); sisters, Judy Dunn (K.C.), Roxie Lanza (Mike), Tina Bailey (Chris); grandmother, Ernestine Lewis; stepsister, Joyce Holmes (Wally); stepbrother, Joseph Hicks; 5 nieces and 4 nephews.

A service of Bright Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Wake Forest.

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