Ray Mode, age 83, of Forest City, passed away Saturday, September 23, 2023.

Jamie Lynn Reedy Starnes, 46, from Forest City, NC, passed away Wednesday, September 20, 2023.

Darlene "Dee Dee" Millwood, age 67, of Ellenboro, passed away Tuesday, September 19, 2023.

John Clarence Clark, 81, of Spartanburg, SC, formerly of Chapin, SC passed away Sunday, September 17, 2023.

Lily Dorothea Kirchner Davies died Thursday, September 21, 2023, less than two months from her one hundredth birthday. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis Atwood Davies, their son, Curtis, Jr and their daughter Denae Carol Davies.

Mark James "Jay" Murray, Jr., age 30 of Forest City died Sunday, September 17, 2023.

Ray Shires, age 79, of Ellenboro, passed away, Sunday, September 17, 2023.

Dawn Marie MacCallum, age 48, of Forest City, passed away Sunday, September 17, 2023.

Joseph Fasolino (Joe), 76, was called home to be with his Heavenly Father Friday, September 16, 2023.

Sammy Lynn Blalock Jr, a native of Buncombe County and a proud member of the Woodfin Knights, and most recently of Rutherford County, NC, passed away Thursday, September 14, 2023.

Gerald Ray Hamrick, age 84 of Ellenboro died Sunday, September 10, 2023.

Marcus Alexander Lovelace age 20 of Forest City died Monday, September 11, 2023.

Martha Warren Bridges Davis, age 87 of Ellenboro died Friday, September 9, 2023.

Ray Hodge, age 85, of Forest City, passed away Monday, September 11, 2023.

Bailey "Bay-Ray" Bradshaw, infant daughter of Katelyn Killam and Tyler Bradshaw, went home to be with her heavenly Father, Sunday, September 10, 2023.

Pete Gendron, 78, of Rutherfordton, passed away Monday, September 11, 2023.

Thomas Ray Green, age 78 of Forest City died Thursday, September 14, 2023.

On Thursday, September 7, 2023, Doris Edwards Kimball took a long-anticipated journey to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Judy Turner, age 76, of Rutherfordton, passed away Wednesday, September 6, 2023.

Mary Julia-Ann (Snyder) Yelton, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother sister, aunt; age 83, passed from this earthly life into the loving arms of Jesus Thursday, September 7.

Deborah Viola Grahl Johnson, 67, passed away Friday, September 1, 2023.

Dorothy Bostic Lail, age 90 of Mooresboro, NC, went home to be with the Lord Monday, August 21, 2023.

Edward David Causby, Jr., 53, of Ellenboro, died Wednesday, September 6, 2023.

Sybil Fisher, age 77, of Dobbinsville, passed away Saturday, September 9, 2023.

Betty McDaniel, age 87 of the Gilkey community passed away September 6, 2023.