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Nine Special Olympic Rutherford County Athletes have returned home after participating in the Special Olympic North Carolina Summer Games June 3-5 in Raleigh.

Rutherford County's Olympians were the Rutherford Rollers bowling team. Athletes were Dakota Collins, Brendan Thompson, Billy Callahan, Yanessa Ortiz, Amber Dysart, Michael Cobb, Kato Porter and Steven Camp.

Sandra Gettys Greene, age 63, of Bostic, passed away Friday, June 10, 2022.

Carolyn McGinnis Smart, age 89 of Rutherfordton, died Thursday, June 9, 2022.

Diane Ruff Pace, 62, of Rutherfordton, passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Dianne Gantt Collins, 63, passed away Wednesday, June 01, 2022.

Ernestine Poteat, age 87, of Forest City, passed away Saturday, June 11, 2022.

Grady Cannon, age 89, of Forest City, passed away Saturday, June 11, 2022.

Ivey Dean Simpson, 69, of Rutherfordton, passed away Thursday, June 9, 2022.

James Henry Hooper, age 86 died Saturday, June 11, 2022.

Janice Moore Cole, age 63, of Forest City, passed Sunday, June 5, 2022.

John Henry McMahan, 93, of Spindale, passed away June 3, 2022.

John Holland, age 57, of Rutherfordton, passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Joseph Harlan Taylor, age 78 of Cliffside, passed away Friday, June 10, 2022.

Juanita Shields, 82, of Rutherfordton, passed away Wednesday, June 8, 2022.

Marty Steven Green, 54, passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Mary Helen Parker Conner age 81 passed away June 12, 2022.

Peggy "Mickey" Epley Green, age 86 of Forest City died Monday, June 6, 2022.

Rebecca Tate Short, age 61, of Forest City, passed away Sunday, June 5, 2022.

Robert Horton, 81, of Sunshine, son of the late Clyde Pannel and Sarah Ellis Green Horton, passed away Friday, June 10.

Sally Jo Jordan, age 78, of Lake Lure, NC, died Friday, May 27, 2022.

As a youngster, there was one activity that characterized my summers - swimming. I loved to go to the public swimming pool and stay until my fingers and toes were wrinkled up like prunes.