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Mandi Sue Binkley Corns

Mandi Sue Binkley Corns

Nov 7, 2021

Mandi Susan Binkley Corns, 58 of Carthage passed away.

Graveside services will be held at 1:00pm Sunday at Bethlehem Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will greet friends in the Church Fellowship Hall following the service. Mandi was born in Chatham Co, a daughter of the late Claude Binkley and Thelma Oldham Binkley. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Benjamin  Franklin Collins, Jr

Benjamin Franklin Collins, Jr

Nov 6, 2021

Benjamin Franklin Collins Jr, 98 of Greensboro passed away Saturday November 6, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm Saturday at Pocket Presbyterian Church in Sanford, NC, where Mr. Collins will lie in state beginning at 12:00 pm. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery.

Mr. Collins was born in Weldon, NC, a son of the late Benjamin...

Crystal Rae Riddle Carter

Crystal Rae Riddle Carter

Nov 2, 2021

Crystal Rae Riddle Carter, 36 of Broadway passed away Tuesday November 2, 2021.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 - 7:30 pm Friday at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home with a Memorial service starting at 7:30. Crystal was born in Chatham Co. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, JD and Joyce Gunter and Edsel and Dorothy Riddle. She...

Clara Lee Fields

Clara Lee Fields

Oct 28, 2021

Clara Lee Hare Fields, 90, formerly of Sanford, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, October 28, 2021 at her home at Brighton Gardens of Winston-Salem.

Mrs. Fields, born in Asheboro, was a daughter of the late Myrtle Rose Hare and Boyd Right Hare. Following her marriage to Ralph Herbert Fields, they resided in Sanford for 60 years. Mrs....

John Kyle Fuller

John Kyle Fuller

Oct 25, 2021

John Kyle Fuller, of 105 Chatham Oaks, Moncure, NC, and formerly of Burlington, NC and Asheboro, NC, went peacefully to be with the Lord after a long decline in health. Kyle, as he was called by his family, was born June 5, 1928 in Russell County, VA to John Salisbury and Virginia Agnes Keen Fuller. In heaven, his parents, wife...

Michael Raymond Hilton

Michael Raymond Hilton

Oct 21, 2021

Michael Raymond Hilton, 34, of Sanford passed away on Thursday October 21, 2021. Funeral services will be held at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home on Saturday October 30, 2021, at 2pm. Burial will follow at St Stephen Catholic Church Cemetery.

Michael was born in Long Island to John Robert Hilton III and Laura Hilton. Michael loved his car, his children and...

Richard McKinley Rogers

Richard McKinley Rogers

Oct 20, 2021

Richard McKinley Rogers, 64 of Sanford passed away Wednesday October 20, 2021. Mr. Rogers was born in Lee County to the late Burt Townsend Rogers and Phoebe Jane Hardy Rogers. He was also preceded in death by son Blake McKinley Rogers; brother Lee Townson Rogers and sisters Lillie Mae McLeod and Susan Driggers. Richard is survived by daughters Amanda Dennis...

Herbert William Lemmey

Herbert William Lemmey

Oct 19, 2021

Herbert William Lemmey, 86 of Sanford passed away Tuesday October 20, 2021.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Mr. Lemmey was born in Brooklyn, NY son of the late Herbert Lemmey and Edna Fearon Lemmey. He was preceded in death by his wife, Helen Florence Hegmann Lemmey. Mr. Lemmey is survived by step-children Steven, Doreen (Bob), and Denise (Joe); a...

Sheila Smith-Mellon

Sheila Smith-Mellon

Oct 17, 2021

Sheila Smith-Mellon, 70, of Sanford passed away October 17, 2021.

Funeral services will be held in Knoxville, TN. Sheila was born in Knoxville, TN, daughter of the late Roy Earl Smith and Julia Ann Underwood Smith. She was preceded in death by her daughter Selena Renee Mellon. Sheila enjoyed reading mysteries, watching movies, singing hymns and spending time with her...

Peggy Thomas  Coe

Peggy Thomas Coe

Oct 16, 2021

Peggy Thomas Coe, 89 of Sanford passed away Saturday October 16, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 2:00pm Thursday at Tramway Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Lee Memory Gardens.

Mrs. Coe was born in Moore Co, daughter of the late Winfield Thomas and Bessie Estelle Pierce Thomas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Gray Coe....

Rafael Samaniego Salazar

Rafael Samaniego Salazar

Oct 15, 2021

Rafael Samaniego Salazar, 43 of Sanford passed away October 15, 2021. Family will gather at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home from 12-8pm on October 21, 2021. Burial will be held at the Salazar Family Cemetery.

Rafael loved building and planning, working with the heavy machinery at his job and eating at Brass Kettle. He was a person who was always ready...

Shirley Yvonne Pendergast Horner

Shirley Yvonne Pendergast Horner

Oct 7, 2021

PITTSBORO, N.C. — Shirley Yvonne Pendergast Horner, 85, a retired nurse, cherished mother and grandmother, died Thursday, Oct. 7, at Cambridge Hills Assisted Living after a period of declining health.

She is survived by her daughter, Shirley Belinda Horner Cooper (and husband Billy) of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and son Bill Horner III (and wife Lee Ann) of Sanford, N.C.,...

Karen Brown Oldham

Karen Brown Oldham

Oct 6, 2021

Karen Brown Oldham, 64 of Sanford passed away Wednesday October 6, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 3:00pm Friday at Cool Springs Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Cameron Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Oldham was born in Winston Salem, daughter of the late Robert Henry “Bob” Brown and Carole Yow Brown. She was preceded in death by a son,...

Eddy Monroe Bullard

Eddy Monroe Bullard

Oct 4, 2021

Eddy Monroe Bullard, 67 of Sanford passed away Monday October 4, 2021.

A private family service will be held at a later date. Eddy was born in Lee Co, son of the late Calvin Monroe Bullard and Nellie Mae Heath Bullard. He was preceded in death by his son's, James Monroe “Duck” Bullard and Billy Ray Bullard; siblings, Linda Faye...

Judy Glass Hamilton

Judy Glass Hamilton

Oct 1, 2021

Judith "Judy" Esther Glass Hamilton, Age 78, of Sanford, North Carolina went to be with her Lord and Savior Friday, Oct 1, 2021, at Central Carolina Hospital with her family by her side. She was born on December 31, 1942, in Sanford NC, to the late John Baxter "Frosty" Glass and Myrtle Ray Simpson Glass. In addition to her parents,...

Robyn Denise Ellis

Robyn Denise Ellis

Oct 1, 2021

Robyn Thomas Ellis, 57 of Sanford passed away on Friday October 1, 2021. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday October 6th, at 7:30pm at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home.

Ms. Ellis was born in Little Rock Arkansas to the late Robert Gerald Thomas and Carolyn Bonita Jeter Thomas, also preceded in death by her brother Mike Thomas and sister Melissa...

Douglas George  Carr

Douglas George Carr

Sep 28, 2021

Douglas George Carr, 80 of Sanford passed away Tuesday September 28, 2021. A Memorial service will be held at 2:00pm Saturday at Tramway Baptist Church.

Mr. Carr was born in Bellflower, CA, son of the late George Carr and Frances Witter Carr. He was a Vietnam Veteran and retired from the US Army after 22 years of service. Doug was...

Janet Cameron Harrington

Janet Cameron Harrington

Sep 24, 2021

Janet Cameron Harrington, 79 of Broadway peacefully passed away Friday September 24, 2021.

Funeral service will be October 17, 2021, at 3:00 pm at Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Broadway, NC officiated by Rev. Doug Houston. Private burial will be held at a later date. Janet was the daughter of the late John Cameron Harrington and Mary Lizabel McFarland Harrington....

Leo Edward  Vance

Leo Edward Vance

Sep 21, 2021

Leo Edward Vance, 84, of Sanford passed away on Tuesday September 21, 2021. A memorial service will be held on Saturday September 25, 2021, at 5pm at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home. He was born in Logan County WV to the late Leo Vance and Florence Mills Vance. He very proudly served our country as a Marine in his younger years....

Francine  Johnson  Starnes

Francine Johnson Starnes

Sep 21, 2021

Francine Johnson Starnes, 87, of Cameron passed away on Tuesday September 21, 2021. Memorial services will be held Saturday October 9th at 11:00am at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home. Ms. Starnes was born in Lee Co. to the late Aldon Franklin Johnson and Lucile Thompson Johnson. She was a graduate of Cameron School, Duke University and Boston University with a MBA....

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