1928 – 2021 Kitty Burgess Blanton, age 92, of Apex, N.C., passed away Wednesday, February 17, 2021, at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford, N.C.. Arrangements are incomplete at this time...
November 28, 1988 ~ February 17, 2021 Johnny Phillip Miller, Jr., age 32, of Whiteville, N.C., died Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at Columbus Regional Healthcare. Johnny was born on November 28, 1988...
February 16, 1965 ~ February 16, 2021 Myra Jane Mason Ward, age 56 of Whiteville, passed away on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at Atrium Health in Charlotte, following a recent illness. Myra...
May 17, 1935 ~ February 17, 2021 Claudia Shackleford Ward, age 85 of Whiteville, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Thursday, February 17, 2021, at her residence, with her family...
Willie Porter Graham, age 78 of Clarkton, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 12, 2021...
Kathryn “Kitty” Carolina DuBoise Hinson, age 72 of Whiteville, passed away on Sunday, February 14, 2021...
Sally Carol Miller Powers, age 69, of Evergreen, peacefully slipped into eternity on Sunday, February 14, 2021...
Dallie “Dale” Lee Nobles Godwin, age 94 of Chadbourn, entered into the presence of her Lord and Savior on Sunday, February 14, 2021...
By Katie Compton Boyd No doubt about it, my gramps loved Christmas. He loved everything about it, the meaning, the reason, the joy dancing across children’s faces. Each Christmas he...
By Katie Compton Boyd I saw what strikes dread and terror in every old Southern woman’s heart: a wooly worm! An omen of a bad winter. It’s hard to imagine...
I will thank the Lord with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous works. I will rejoice and boast about you; I will sing about your name, Most...
By Katie Compton Boyd I remember as a child, the women in my family would remind me, “you mustn’t talk of politics or religion, especially at the dinner table. It...
And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ Matthew 25:4...
By Dawn Langley, PA This is the first in a series of columns focusing on diabetes management as part of November as Diabetes Awareness Month. Let’s begin with some statistics...
By Katie Compton Boyd It was a rookie mistake buying an 8-year-old boy a very realistic rubber rattlesnake. I knew too, at the time, that its fangs might be plastic but...