FRANKLINTON -- Daphine Pendleton Preddy, age 75, died January 16, 2015 in Franklin Medical Center. She was a native of Franklin County and was the daughter of the late Ernest Morris and Mary Helen Ross Pendleton. Daphine was a retired Mental Health Technician at John Umstead Hospital in Butner, NC and a member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church.
KITTRELL - Funeral services for Linwood LeMay, 59, who died Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, will be held Friday, Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. at Concord Baptist Church, with the Rev. S. E. Blalock officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
KITTRELL - Funeral services for Mary Queen E. Perry, 69, who died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg, with the Rev. Sidney Dunston officiating. Burial will follow in the Haywood Baptist Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Shirley A. Davis, 65, who died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Perry's Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Randolph Alston officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Viola Gupton Champion, "Big Mama," of Youngsville, died Sunday, January 18, 2015, at Wake Medical Center. Born July 29, 1934 to the late Ezra and Lila Gilliam Gupton. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Elsie and Blanche, and her longtime companion, Lonnie Clay. A member of Wood Baptist Church and attended Hopkins Baptist Church in Zebulon.