Archive for July, 2009

Dateline: Zebulon, NC

Jesus Celen Rios Salvador, 30, passed away July 12, 2009. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Selma

Laura Sofia Diaz, 18, passed away at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem, July 8, 2009. A funeral service will be held at 2pm July 11, 2009 at Williford Funeral Home Chapel. Internment will follow at Wake Chapel Cemetery. Service entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 919-552-2211.

La data: Selma

Laura Sofia Diaz, 18, se murieron en Wake Forest el Hospital Bautista, Winston Salem, el 8 de julio de 2009. Un funeral será tenido a las 2 de la tarde el 11 de julio de 2009 en Capilla de Funeraria de Williford. El internamiento seguirá en Capilla de Estela Cementerio. El servicio confió a la Funeraria de Williford, el 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Raleigh, NC

Marisol Rodriguez Barrientos, 27, passed away at home, July 7, 2009. There will be a memorial mass at St. Rafael Catholic Church in Raleigh, July 9, 2009 at 1:30. A visitation will follow at Avent Ferry Methodist Church. She will return to Mexico to be buried in San Pedro Tenango. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Angier, NC

J. Socorro Rojas Rosas, 55, passed away at UNC Medical Center, July 5, 2009. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Fuquay Varina, NC

Katie Steed Taylor, 84, passed away at Wake Medical Center in Cary, North Carolina on July 4, 2009. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 201 East Academy Street, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526.

Hazel Ruth Strickland, 69, passed away at Brookdale Senior Living in Greensboro, NC on July 4, 2009. She was born in Harnett County to the late William R. Barbour and Mrs. Josephine Smith Barbour. She was also preceded in death by her brother William H. Barbour. Hazel worked for Bank of America for 33 years. More than simply a caretaker, Mrs. Strickland was the greatest mother a son could ask for.

Mrs. Strickland leaves behind a son, Albert Strickland, wife Amy, of Greensboro; sisters, Geraldine Truelove, of Fuquay Varina, Elizabeth Allen, husband Loy, of Cary; and sister-in-law Glynn Barbour of Roanoke Rapids. 

A visitation will be held at Williford Funeral Home, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 from 7-9pm. The funeral service will be conducted in the Williford Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 11am with internment to follow at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, National Office, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 201 E. Academy Street, Fuquay Varina, NC, 919-552-2211. Please visitwww.willifordfuneralhome.com to leave condolences for the family.

Dateline: Fuquay Varina, NC

Geraldine Frances Glover Peel, 91, departed this life on July 3, 2009 at Windsor Point Continuing Care Retirement Community in Fuquay-Varina, NC.  Geraldine is the daughter of the late Cleveland Jasper Glover, Sr. and Cleopatra Taylor Glover of Wilson, NC.  Geraldine was born October 1, 1917 in Wilson. She attended East Carolina University.  Geraldine was an elementary school teacher in North Carolina and in Richmond, Virginia for many years. She loved gardening, music, and animals, especially dogs.  She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Francis Dallas Peel, her sister Rachel Glover Paschall, and three brothers-in-law.

Geraldine is survived by her daughter, Deborah Peel Spidle and husband R. James Spidle of Fuquay-Varina, sister Margaret Glover Hicks of Fuquay-Varina, brother C.J. Glover, Jr. and wife Sybil Williamson Glover of Wilson, four nieces, and one nephew.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to a cancer research organization of your choice, to Hospice of Wake County NC, or to the SPCA of Wake County NC, in memory of Geraldine Peel.
Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 201 E. Academy Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. Condolences may be made at www.willifordfuneralhome.com. 

Dateline: Lillington, NC

Claudia McCotter, 95, passed away at the E. Carlton Powell Hospice Center on July 2, 2009. Services entrusted to Williford Funeral Home, 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Fuquay Varina

William Scott Causey 55, passed away Wed July 1, 2009. Services will be Saturday July 4, 2009 at 2:00pm at Hilltop Freewill Baptist Church in Fuquay Varina. A visitation will take place an hour before the service at the church. Internment will follow the funeral service at Wake Chapel Cemetery. 

Family request in lieu of flowers donations be made to William Causey c/o Williford Funeral Home 201 E. Academy St. Fuquay Varina, NC 27526, 919-552-2211.

Dateline: Cary, NC

Virginia Kelly Shores, 92, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 29, 2009 in North Carolina.  She had lived with her daughter and son-in-law for the past 12 years.  Prior to that time she lived in Charlottesville, VA.

Virginia worked as a nurse at Blue Ridge Sanatorium for over 30 years, most of that time as the Evening Nursing Supervisor of the hospital. She loved her job, co-workers and patients.  The memories and friendships from those years remained very precious to her.

Born in Scott County, VA on February 23, 1917, to the late James Nathaniel Kelly and Pearl White Kelly, she was the oldest of five children.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her oldest grandson, Ray Wood; her brother, Hobart Glenn Kelly; sisters, Mary Freda Kelly and Jamie Kelly Franklin.

She is survived by her daughters, Jayne Shores Wells and her husband, Jack, of Cary, NC and Kelly Shores Bryant, of Charlottesville, VA; one brother, Eugene Newton Kelly, of Duffield, VA;  nieces, Mary Kay Shores, of Duffield, VA, Patricia Ball, of Duffield, VA, Barbara Hass and her husband, Dennis, of Duffield, VA and Betty Fugate and her husband, Thomas, of Frankfurt, KY; nephew, William James (Bill) Franklin, Jr., of Duffield, VA; and several great nieces and nephews.

Virginia is also survived by five grandchildren, Avery Wood and his wife, Anastasia, of Charlottesville, VA, Cindy Hicks and her husband, Tommy, of Stanardsville, Brett Bryant and his wife, Laura, of Gordonsville, VA, Brian Wells, of La Crosse, WI, and Stuart Wells and his wife, Suzanne, of Fuquay-Varina, NC; and eight great-grandchildren, Patrick and Kelly Hicks, Desiree Bryant, Brittnee and Michael Herring, Brandon, Matthew and Gavin Wells.

Family and friends were the most important things in Virginia’s life. She will be greatly missed by those who loved her, and remembered for her generosity and kindness.

In keeping with her wishes, her body was cremated and will be interred at a later date in Glencoe Cemetery, Big Stone Gap, VA.  A graveside memorial service will be held at that time.

Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of your choice.