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FRANKLINTON —Lance W. Rehberg, 45, resident of Franklinton and longtime Mansfield area resident, died suddenly Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 at the home of his brother in Mansfield, following an apparent heart attack.
FRANKLINTON - Dolly Ann Davis, 60, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 at her home in Durham. Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 24, at Kinches Chapel Christian Church, Franklinton, with the Rev. Willie R. Nixon III officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Joanna Cornelia Solomon Banister, 75, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Zebulon Ward. Burial will be at 12 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
ZEBULON - Rickey Ray “Rick” Long, 62, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 at his home. A memorial service was held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at Corinth Baptist Church, Zebulon. Inurment took place in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - “Larry” Eugene Rogers, 60, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at William Toney’s Funeral Home, Zebulon. Burial was at the Pleasant Grove Church Annex in Wendell.
FRANKLINTON —Dock Holden Harris, 79, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at First Baptist Church in Franklinton. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Louise Powell Freeman, 90, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Youngsville Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
ROCKY MOUNT - The Rev. Winfred W. Porter, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Lakeside Baptist Church, 1501 Sunset Avenue, Rocky Mount, with Dr. Jody Wright, the Rev. Elizabeth Edwards and the Rev. Joy Heaton officiating. Entombment will follow at Rocky Mount Memorial Park.
LOUISBURG - Reginald C. Yarborough, 57, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 31, at Alston-Anderson Funeral Home Chapel, 904 S. Main St., Louisburg. Burial will be at Quality Cremations, Durham.
LOUISBURG - James Smith, 71, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home, Zebulon.
LOUISBURG - James Thomas 82, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home, Spring Hope.
LOUISBURG - Annie Freeman Bowers, 78, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010 at her home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at Hall-Wynne Funeral Service, Franklinton Chapel, 504 E. Mason St. in Franklinton. Her grandson, the Rev. Samuel Eugene DeWitt, will officiate. Burial will be private in Fairview Cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Funeral services for Johnnie E. Mitchell Sr., 72, who died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. John A. Hopkins officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - Funeral services for Gearline Noble, 77, who died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Margaret Cochran McCurry, 89, of Louisburg, passed away Sunday morning.
CHARLOTTE - Mr. Wade, age 80, of Charlotte, NC, died on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, at the Carolinas Medical Center-Main in Charlotte.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are looking for suspects accused of robbing an older man.
Joseph Bullock, 67, reported on the evening of Dec. 26 that he was in his 15 Marless Drive home when a black man knocked on his door, claiming to need to use the phone.
WINTER WONDERLAND. The snow paints a majestic landscape on a road near The River Golf Course. (Times photo by Geoff Neville)
CITY SCENE. Snow covered this wagon wheel at Riverbend Park in Louisburg. According to meteorologist and officials, between nine inches and a foot of snow fell in Franklin County over the weekend. (Times photo by Carey Johnson)
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Best quip of the weekend, courtesy of an anonymous blogger:
It’s winter. It snows!
Exactly, although you would never have gotten that realistic world view from the chattering folks at area TV stations who carried on as if we were having an unprecedented, cataclysmic event that was stopping just short of Armageddon!
Really, now. It was just snow.
GOOD MORNING: And the one thing in particular that makes it a really good morning, as far as I’m personally concerned, is the hope that more of that after Christmas white stuff that pretty much bottled me up at home Sunday and a good portion of Monday as well, will melt away before the day’s end.
Messages.
A news story out of Lumberton sent a lot of them.
Here’s the story.
The state’s Industrial Commission recently ruled that a Robeson County Middle School principal can get worker’s compensation for injuries he sustained in a suspected gang-related shooting.
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Will and Rebecca Leonard of Louisburg announce the marriage of their daughter, Charity Reneé, to Matthew Alexander Hockaday. The couple exchanged vows on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 at 2 p.m. at the North Raleigh Hilton Midtown in Raleigh. Pastor Brenda C. Timberlake of Christian Faith Center in Creedmoor officiated, with a special Communion service rendered by Pastor K. G. Hall of Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Louisburg.
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