Robert "Bob" Keener
Jul 20, 2015
Robert "Bob" Keener, died in his home on July 20th 2015 of natural causes. He was 85. Bob was born on July 4, 1930 to Willard and Albia Keener. He lived his entire life in Franklin, NC, marrying Mary Etta Keener in April 1953. At different times during his career he built houses, owned and operated the wonderfully remembered Sugar...
Dorothy Smith
Jul 17, 2015
Dorothy Gless Smith, 77, of Franklin, passed away Friday, July 17, 2015. Born in New York, NY, she was the daughter of the late Albert Gless and Catherine Johnson Gless. She is survived by two sons, Kip Roggendorf and Erik Carlson. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, in the Chapel of Macon Funeral Home....
Theodore "Ted" Smyre
Jul 17, 2015
Theodore "Ted" Perry Smyre, 73, of Cullowhee, NC, passed away Friday, July 17, 2015. Born in Newton, NC, he was the son of the late Alvin Theodore Smyre and Mattie Hampton Smyre. Ted enjoyed restoring his 1931 Chevrolet, carpentry work and gardening and landscaping. He was the property manager of he and his wife's housing development and member of the...
Thomas "Tom" Roberts Jr.
Jul 16, 2015
Thomas "Tom" Franklin Roberts, Jr., passed away peacefully at home with his wife Barbara at his side on Thursday, July 16th, 2015. This was the end to a five year struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury he received in 2015, following a fall at home. Tom lived a life filled with so many blessings. One of his greatest...
James Rasbury Jr.
Jul 15, 2015
James B. Rasbury, Jr., 81, of Highlands, NC, passed away Wednesday, July 15, 2015. No services will be held. Macon Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Marvin Robert Bills
Jul 13, 2015
Marvin Robert Bills, 72, of Franklin, NC and Bradenton, FL, went home to be with the Lord, Monday, July 13, 2015. Born in Buffalo, NY, he was the son of the late Roy A. Bills and Ellen McConnell Bills. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Richard Bills. He was a U.S. Army Vietnam...
Audrey Bokisa
Jul 12, 2015
Audrey C. Bokisa, 91, of Franklin, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2015 at her residence. Born in La Jose, PA, she was the daughter of the late Harold and Daisy McFadden Thompson. She was married to the late Pete Bokisa for 64 years. Audrey was a very loving and creative mother. She served her country during WWII in the Army...
Archie C. Burnham
Jul 12, 2015
Archie C. Burnham, Jr., 80, of McDonough, GA and Franklin, NC, passed away on Sunday, July 12, 2015. Archie was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, May 10, 1935. He attended the Virginia Military Institute where as a young cadet he was motivated by a quote from General Stonewall Jackson, "You can be whatever you resolve to be." The result was a...
Florence May Turgeon
Jul 11, 2015
Florence May Turgeon, 84, of Franklin, passed away Saturday, July 11, 2015. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she was the daughter of the late Hiram Chalk and Mary Purchase Chalk. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Ruth Turgeon and a brother, Tim Chalk. Florence worked for McKesson and Robbins and later worked for Walmart....
Virginia Mardelle "Mardee" Davis
Jul 10, 2015
Virginia Mardelle "Mardee" Davis, 92, of Franklin, passed away July 10, 2015. Born in McLean, IL, she was the daughter of the late Clarence William Mallory and Ruth Florence Anderson Mallory. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Clarence Donald Mallory and a sister, Francine Gemlich. She is survived by her husband of 61...
Beulah Cunningham
Jul 9, 2015
Beulah Lequire Cunningham , 91, of Franklin, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2015. Born in Swain, NC, she was the daughter of the late William Henderson Lequire and Martha Emaline Taylor Lequire. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Arnold Cook and husband, JS Cunningham and brothers and sisters, Dellie Cook, Harley Lequire,...
Lana Frank
Jul 9, 2015
Lana Frank, 72, of Franklin, passed away July 9, 2015. Arrangements are incomplete. Macon Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Mark Duvall
Jul 8, 2015
Mark Nichols Duvall, 57, of Franklin, NC, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2015, at Care Partners Solace Hospice Center in Asheville, NC. Born September 18, 1957, on his parents' ninth wedding anniversary, he was the son of Marie Nichols Duvall of Franklin and the late Rex V. Duvall. A 1975 graduate of Franklin High School, he attended Southwestern Technical Institute,...
Glenn "Rusty" Waldroop
Jul 8, 2015
Glenn "Rusty" Hunter Waldroop, 90, of Franklin, passed away on July 8, 2015. Born in Macon County, NC, he was the son of the late Grady H. Waldroop and Nannie Battles Waldroop. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Sayler, three brothers (Siler, Quintin and Bob) and three sisters (Belva, Ethel and Katherine)....
Rev. Dr. James Wendell Ligon
Jul 8, 2015
Rev. Dr. James Wendell Ligon, 80, of Franklin, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Born in Dunn, NC, he was the son of the late Elisha James Ligon and Virginia Coppridge Ligon and reared from 3 years old by his aunt and uncle, Dr. William Coppridge and his wife. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Dr. James Clark
Jul 7, 2015
Dr. James Eugene Clark, Jr., 76, of Franklin, formerly of Clearwater, FL, passed away Monday, July 6, 2015. Born in Hopewell, VA, he was the son of the late James Eugene Clark, Sr. and Helen Leigh Clark. James graduated from Pharmacy School at the University of Florida and received his DDS degree from Emory University. He practiced dentistry in Clearwater,...
Charles Jackson "Jack" Baldwin
Jul 4, 2015
Jack Baldwin, 80, of Raleigh, NC, succumbed to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his home surrounded by his family on July 4, 2015. Jack is survived by his wife, Sue of 58 years; daughters, Caroline Jackson (Joe), Kathey Brown (Bud); sisters, Joyce Swafford (Charles) and June Sorrells (Paul); brother, John; many loving grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; and extended family. Jack was a...
Carolyn Rebecca Pitts Sanders
Jul 4, 2015
Carolyn Rebecca Pitts Sanders, 65, went home to be with her heavenly family, after a long battle with cancer on July 4, 2015. She was born April 23, 1950, in Clayton, GA, to the late Edward and Dovie Carpenter Pitts. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Keith Dwayne Pitts and an infant daughter....
Lois Sloan Reeves
Jul 3, 2015
Lois Sloan Reeves, 103, of Franklin, passed away Friday, July 3, 2015. Born in Basinger, FL, she was the daughter of the late Bethel Sloan and Della Raulerson Sloan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Cody Reeves who died in 1991 and a daughter, Merle Reeves. Lois was a member of First Baptist...
Robin Jane Vance
Jul 3, 2015
Robin Jane Vance, 54, of Franklin, passed away Friday, July 3, 2015. Born in Montclair, NJ, she was the daughter of the late James E. O'Connor and Joan C. Knight O'Connor. Robin was secretary/treasurer of Vance Builders for 27 years; member and Sunday School Teacher at St. Benedicts Episcopal Church in Florida; member of Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild in Florida...
