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Jackie Nambo Najera
Jul 27, 2024
Jackie Nambo Najera, 27, of Sanford passed away on Saturday July 27, 2024.
The family will greet friends from 12:00 until 2:45 pm Saturday (8/10/2024) at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at 3:00 pm at Buffalo Cemetery.
Jackie enjoyed playing pool, watching movies, word search puzzles, and most importantly spending time with her family. She is preceded in death...
Mary Cummings Bullard Mashburn
Jul 27, 2024
Mary Cummings Bullard Mashburn, 88, died peacefully at the home of her beloved niece, Cari Lowry on July 27, 2024, with her family at her bedside. Funeral service will be held on Monday August 5, 2024, at 11am at Cool Springs Baptist Church. The family will receive friends starting at 10 am before the service.
Mary was born June 23, 1936,...
Michael James Bray
Jul 26, 2024
Michael James Bray, 61 of Sanford passed away July 26, 2024. Michael will lie in state from 10am until 2pm at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home Wednesday August 7, 2024, with a visitation following from 2-4pm.
Michael was born in Germany to the late Robert Bray and Sylvia Johnson Bray. Michael was loved and cared for by many. He was known for...
John Max Walker
Jul 21, 2024
John Max Walker, 88, of Sanford passed away Sunday July 21, 2024. Memorial services planned for a later date.
John was born in Concord NC to the late Woodrow Walker and Margaret Kennerly Walker. In his early years he was an outstanding athlete and truly loved sports. He spent many years playing, coaching, and officiating. He was inducted into the Hall...
Carol Neal Bradford
Jul 11, 2024
Carol Neal Bradford, 78, of Sanford, passed away Thursday, July 11, 2024, at home surrounded by family. Carol was born April 15th, 1946, in Norfolk, VA. The middle child of George William Neal and Marion Suttle Neal. Carol’s early years were spent on the family farm in Ruffin, NC. As a farm kid, she learned about hard work, helping in...
Hugh Moore
Jun 24, 2024
Gilbert “Hugh” Moore Jr, 71 of Sanford passed away Monday June 24, 2024. A memorial service will be held on Saturday July 13, 2024 at 11am at Buffalo Presbyterian Church. The family will receive friends starting at 10am in the sanctuary.
Hugh was the son of the late Gilbert Hugh Moore Sr and Lavonna Deel Moore. He was born on February...
Linda Stewart Scott
Jun 23, 2024
Linda Stewart Scott, 74, passed away on Sunday June 23, 2024. A memorial service for Linda Scott (6/23/24) and Robert Carl Scott (1/17/24) will be held on Saturday July 13th at Rogers Pickard Funeral home at 2pm.
Mrs. Scott was born in Lee Co. to the late John Stewart Jr. and Vernell Wilson Stewart. She enjoyed gardening, canning, baking, spending time...
Anne Wilson
Jun 11, 2024
Anne Wilson, 83, of Sanford passed away on Tuesday June 11, 2024. Memorial services will be held at 2pm Saturday June 15, 2024, at St. Luke UMC in Sanford. The family will receive friends starting at 1 pm before the service in the Ladies Parlor.
She was born and raised in New Bern, NC, a daughter of the late Peter Demetre...
Eleanor Haynes Corns
Jun 11, 2024
Eleanor Corns, 91, of Sanford, passed away on Tuesday June 11, 2024. Funeral services will be held at 11am Friday June 14, 2024 at Cool Springs Baptist Church. Burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends before the service starting at 10 am at the church.
She was born a daughter of the late Ernest Robert Haynes...
Anna Michelle Rosales
Jun 11, 2024
Anna Michelle Black Rosales, 65 of Sanford passed away Tuesday June 11, 2024. A memorial service will be held on Monday June 17, 2024 at 4 pm at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home. The family will receive friends starting at 3pm before the service.
Anna was born in Sarasota, FL daughter of the late Wallace Coltrain Black and Margaret Elizabeth McLemore Black....
Mabel VanStreader Nicely
Jun 9, 2024
Mabel VanStreader Nicely, 99 of Sanford passed away Sunday July 9, 2024. A committal service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.Mrs. Nicely was born in Napoleon, OH a daughter of the late Edward VanStreader and Katherine Dietrich VanStreader. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard Nicely and her siblings. She was a longtime...
Mildred Stumpf Brooks Hanson
Jun 8, 2024
Mildred Stumpf Brooks Hanson, age 96 of Broadway, NC, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
She was born on January 13, 1928 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frederick Howard Stumpf and Dora Pfieffer Stumpf. She was preceded in death by her parents, along with her husband David Shelby Hanson and her step-son, David G. Hanson. Also, her...
Phyllis McCarn Early
Jun 7, 2024
Phyllis Corine McCarn Early died June 7, 2024, at Brookridge Retirement Community in Winston-Salem, NC. A memorial service will be held on Monday July 1, 2024, at 2pm at First Baptist Church in Sanford, NC.
She was born February 20, 1931 in Cabarrus County, NC, the daughter of Charlie Lindsay McCarn and birth mother Maude Hinson McCarn. Her birth mother died...
Doris McManus Maynard Cox
Jun 3, 2024
Doris McManus Maynard Cox, 95 Sanford, passed away Monday June 3, 2024.
Born in Scotland County on August 25, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Lee R. McManus and Carrie Thompson McManus. Her first husband, Charles E. Maynard, a son, Charles Lynn Maynard her second husband, Albert Leslie Cox, daughter Anne Maynard Hurley, two sisters Evelyn McManus Raby of...
Joseph Crabtree
Jun 2, 2024
Joseph H. Crabtree of Goldston, NC (October 6, 1939 - June 2, 2024) was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Hugh Blakely Crabtree and Dorothy Stratton Crabtree.
In high school, Joe played both the tuba and football—quite the well-rounded athlete and musician. After graduation, he proudly served three years in the U.S. Army. It was at the Butler High School fair where...
Marcia Edwards Hudzik
May 27, 2024
Marcia “Marcy” Edwards Hudzik, 56, of Sanford passed away Monday, May 27, 2024.
Marcia was born in Guilford Co. on July 30, 1967 to Elaine Coggin and raised by she and Darrel Gunter. Her siblings were Ginger Thomas and the late Stacey Gunter and Joe Edwards. Marcia was raised strong in Lee County among amazing family and friends where she graduated...
Aurora Grace Light
May 21, 2024
Aurora Grace Light, of Sanford passed away Tuesday May 21, 2024, at Duke Children's Hospital. Funeral services will be held at Moons Chapel Church, 175 Moons Chapel Road, Siler City, NC 27334 at 2:00pm Saturday. Family will receive friends starting at 1pm before the service at the church.
Aurora was born on May 7th a daughter of Jacob Wade Light and...
Louanne Lee Schweitzer
May 20, 2024
Schweitzer, Louanne Lee-of Clio, age 92, died May 20, 2024, in Sanford. NC. Funeral services will be at 1PM on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at Bethany United Methodist Church - 353 E Vienna St, Clio, MI. Pastor Kayla Roosa to officiate, burial to follow to Flint Memorial Park. The family will receive visitors on Sunday, May 26th, and May 27th,...
Martha Evans McLeod
May 20, 2024
Martha Louise Evans McLeod, 86 of Sanford peacefully passed away Monday May 20, 2024. A Celebration of Life Graveside Service will be held at 11am on Friday (5/24/24) at White Hill Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. McLeod was born in Davie Co a daughter of the late James Lloyd Evans and Mae Whitley Evans. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles...
Maxine Jackson Auman
May 16, 2024
Maxine Jackson Auman, 98 of Sanford peacefully passed away Thursday, May 16, 2024. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 28th at 2:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Sanford, NC. Burial will follow at Buffalo Cemetery.
Mrs. Auman was born in Sanford, NC, raised in Carthage and she attended Elon College. She was the daughter of the late Hugh Wilton...
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