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Iris Cole Bashore went to her Heavenly Home Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Harold Dean Smith, age 85, of Ellenboro, died Thursday, February 27, 2025.

On a clear and sunny 52 degree winter Sunday afternoon recently, more than 100 people gathered at Kiwanis Park in Rutherfordton to celebrate and remember a special friend of the community - Eric D. Wells.

Thirty-seven years ago, God sent an angel to us here on Earth, on Friday, February 28, God called His angel home. Jamie Fox, age 37, of Forest City, went home to be at the right hand of Jesus.

Billy G. Huntley, age 90 of Rutherfordton, NC, died Wednesday, February 26, 2025.

Diane Carol Alvarez, age 73 of Ellenboro, NC, died Saturday, February 22, 2025.

Clark Kent Page age 67 of Forest City, NC died Thursday, February 20, 2025.

Larry Vann Crocker, 76, passed away February 21, 2025.

Jonathan Lee Keeter, age 51 of Ellenboro, died Saturday, February 15, 2025

Claude Davis, age 89, of Forest City, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2025.

Roy Franklin Higgins, age 82 passed away Friday, February 21, 2025.

Five months ago on September 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene brought devastating flood waters to Rutherford County, adjoining counties and Western North Carolina. Lake Lure and Chimney Rock, as well as other areas in Rutherford and Polk counties, are forever changed.

Darvi Von Angel, 70, of Union Mills, passed away February 22, 2025.

Robert Wayne Lee, age 66, of Mooresboro, NC passed away Sunday, February 2, 2025.

Sherry Powell, age 55, of Mooresboro, died Sunday, February 23, 2025.

Margarita Angela Clute, 88, peacefully passed away February 21, 2025.

John Thomas Nelson Jr., September 9, 1942-February 20, 2025. John, born in Altoona, PA to Lorena Bingman and John T. Nelson Sr. He grew up in Portsmouth, VA. John attended Hargrave Military Academy, Old Dominion U. and was in the US Marine Corp.

Douglas O. Jernigan, Jr., age 73 of Ellenboro, died Wednesday, February 19, 2025.

Shirley Marie Gammons Dawson, 82, passed away Saturday, February 8, 2025.