Obituaries
Local Obituaries
Local obituaries for our Badger Funeral Home & Ashelawn Memorial Chapel with funeral services throughout North Carolina, including West Jefferson, Jefferson and adjoining counties.

Warren Lawrence
Mar 11, 2003
Mr. Warren Dean Lawrence, age 81, of West Jefferson, NC died Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 13, 2003 at 2:00 P.M. at the Bald Mountain Baptist Church with Rev. Lawrence Goodman and Rev. Bill Ballou officiating. Interment will follow in Bald Mountain Community Cemetery with Military Honors. Mr. Lawrence was born...

Neil Cotter
Mar 9, 2003
Mr. Neil Cotter, age 81 of Crumpler, NC died Sunday, March 9, 2003 at the Ashe Memorial Hospital in Jefferson. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 1:00 P.M. at the Ashelawn Memorial Chapel with Rev. Randall Greene officiating. Interment will follow in Ashelawn Memorial Gardens. Mr. Cotter was born November 11, 1933 in Claremont, NH to...

Lonnie Johnson
Mar 6, 2003
Lonnie Maynard Johnson age 61 of Lansing, NC died Thursday, March 6, 2003 at the Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mr. Johnson was born on August 14, 1941 in Ashe County, NC to Lonnie Fred and Pauline Neaves Johnson. Funeral Services will be held Monday, March 10, 2003 at 2:00 P.M. at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Junior Miller and Rev....

Verner Lewis
Mar 5, 2003
Verner Meridy Lewis age 89 of Warrensville, NC died Wednesday, March 5, 2003 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Mr. Lewis was born on July 14, 1913 in Ashe County, NC to Tilson and Rosa Hartsog Lewis of Mtn City, TN. He was born in the Clifton community along with eleven brothers and sisters. He was an avid outdoorsman, a Mason...

Paul Avery
Mar 5, 2003
Paul Avery, 81, of Cooper City, Florida, formerly of Glendale Springs, NC died Wednesday morning March 5, 2003 after a brief illness. He was born in 1921 in North Adams, Mass. to Henry and Helen (Wright) Avery of Charlemont, Mass. He was a 1939 graduate of Deerfield Academy and a 1943 graduate of Amherst College. He was a Lieutenant in...

Lucy Walker
Mar 4, 2003
Lucy Darnell Walker age 85 of West Jefferson, died Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Walker was born August 15, 1917 in Wilkes County to the late William and Alice Darnell. Her husband, Victor preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 6th at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Gene...

Clifford Pennington
Mar 1, 2003
Thomas Clifford Pennington age 79 of Lansing, NC died Saturday, March 1, 2003 at his home. Mr. Pennington was born on September 10, 2003 in Ashe County, NC to Everett and Martha Greer Pennington. A graveside service will be held Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 12:00 at the Perry Cemetery. Rev. Jim Francis, Rev. Earl Woods, and Rev. Jim Greer...

Pearl Goss
Feb 26, 2003
Pearl Eldreth Goss age 85 of the Little Horse Creek Community, Lansing, NC died Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at her home. Mrs. Goss was born on March 26, 1917 in Ashe County, NC to John and Ellen Eldreth. Her husband John L. Goss preceded her in death. Funeral Services will be held Friday, February 28, 2003 at 2:00 P.M. at...

Eileen Sheets
Feb 25, 2003
Eileen Ann Sheets age 59 of Glendale Springs, NC died Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at her home. Mrs. Sheets was born on July 12, 1943 in South Gate, CA to Jack and Roberta Willson. Funeral Services will b held Friday, February 28, 2003 at 8:00 P.M. at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Russell Sheets, Rev. Ted Reynolds, and Rev....

Ruth Colvard
Feb 25, 2003
Ruth Virginia Colvard, age 90 of Laurel Springs died Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at her home. Mrs. Colvard was born October 21, 1912 in Ashe county to the late Calvin and Ennis Eldreth. Her husband, Walter Colvard, also preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, February 28th at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev....

Junior Taylor
Feb 24, 2003
James Walter Taylor, "better known as Junior" age 70 of West Jefferson, NC died Monday, February 24, 2003 at the Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mr. Taylor was born on April 10, 1932 in Ashe County, NC to James William and Floye Stanley Taylor. He was a member of Midway Baptist Church. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, February 27, 2003 at...

Swansie Shepherd
Feb 22, 2003
Mr. Swansie E. Shepherd age 90 of Lansing, NC died Saturday, February 22, 2003 at the Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mr. Shepherd was born on October 16, 1912 in Ashe County, NC to Gardener and Etta Baugess Shepherd. He was preceded in death by four brothers. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 11:00 A.M. at the Badger...

Willie Sheets
Feb 22, 2003
Willie Edward "Ed" Sheets age 76 of Crumpler, NC died Saturday, February 22, 2003 at the Segraves Care Center. Mr. Sheets was born on January 7, 1927 in Gary, West Virginia to Lester and Flossie Miller Sheets. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 1:00 P.M. at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Russell Sheets and Rev....

Paul Hartzog
Feb 21, 2003
Paul Hartzog age 91 of West Jefferson, NC died Friday, February 21, 2003 at the Watauga Medical Center. Mr. Hartzog was born on February 17, 1912 in Ashe County, NC to Martin and Verdie Calloway Hartzog. Funeral Services will be held Monday, February 24, 2003 at 3:00 P.M. at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Dean Watson and Rev. Joey...

Jennifer Campbell
Feb 19, 2003
Mrs. Jennifer Michelle Aloia Campbell, age 22, of West Jefferson, NC died Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at her residence. Memorial Services will be held Saturday 1:00 P.M. at the St. Mary's Episcopal Church, West Jefferson, NC by Father Steve Miller and Rev. Deacon Shirley Long. Inurnment services are to be held later. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Friday...

Lodena Sutton
Feb 18, 2003
Dena Sessums Hanway Sutton, age 79, of West Jefferson died Tuesday, Feb. 18 and Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC after a brief battle with cancer. Over the past four years, Dena has resided in West Jefferson, NC enjoying fellowship as a member of First Baptist Church. She served as secretary of the Friends of the Library and was...

Edna Black
Feb 17, 2003
Edna Turner Black, age 90 of Warrensville died Monday, February 17, 2003 at the Ashe Living Center. Mrs. Black was born February 18, 1912 in Grayson County, VA to the late Lee and Virginia Black. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband Dolphus Black. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Thursday, February 20th at the...

Joyce Bledsoe
Feb 12, 2003
Mrs. Joyce Rash Bledsoe, age, 59, of Lansing, NC died Wednesday, February 12, 2003 in Forsyth Memorial Hospital in Winston Salem. Funeral services will be held Monday, February 17, 2:00 P.M. at Ashelawn Memorial Chapel with Rev. William Greer and Rev. Reeves Jones officiating. Interment will follow in Ashelawn Memorial Gardens in Jefferson. Mrs. Bledsoe was born in Ashe County,...

Roger Kimble
Feb 7, 2003
Roger Keith Kimble age 50 of West Jefferson, NC died Friday, February 7, 2003 at the Ashe Memorial Hospital. Mr. Kimble was born on August 26, 1952 in Williamson, WV. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 11:00 at the Badger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Lloyd Day and Rev. Billy Joe Blevins will officiate. Burial will follow...

Roniald Bumgarner
Feb 4, 2003
Mr. Roniald Lee Bumgarner, age 51 of Todd, NC died Tuesday, February 04, 2003 at the Watuaga Medical Center in Boone, NC. Funeral service will be held Thursday, February 6, 2003 2:00 P.M. at Ashelawn Memorial Chapel in Jefferson, NC with Rev. Steve Leashomb officiating. Burial will follow in Ashelawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 1:00-2:00 prior...