Paul Hemphill
Mar 30, 2016
Paul Wesley Hemphill, 64 of Asheville NC and formerly of Brevard, NC, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville, NC. A native of Transylvania County he was a son of the late Clyde and Mary Emma Stokes Hemphill. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his wife,...
Clarence Metcalf
Mar 29, 2016
Clarence Cheat Metcalf, 85, of Brevard, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Clarence Cheat and Toy Deaver Metcalf. In addition to his parents he was also preceded in death by his brothers Blaine Metcalf, Everette Metcalf and Kenneth Metcalf and sister Ruth Souther. Mr. Metcalf...
Margaret Orr
Mar 29, 2016
Margaret Raxter Orr Margaret Raxter Orr, 86, of Brevard, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at Brookdale Asheville Walden Ridge. A native of Transylvania County, she was the daughter of the late Eliza and Reba McGaha Raxter. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, James Lewis Orr; her...
Paul Mckerahan
Mar 26, 2016
Paul Robert McKerahan passed away March 26, 2016 at Eckerd Living Center in Highlands, NC. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, March 30, 1923, he was the 2nd son of the late Maud Louise Compton and Robert Clark McKerahan of Springs, PA. In June of 1944, he joined the Army, serving in WWII in Company K, 333rd Infantry of the 84th...
Helen Childs
Mar 25, 2016
Helen Margaret (Young) Childs was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1912. In her childhood she experienced early 20th century farm life when she visited her venerable grandmother near Bloomington, Wisconsin. She graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English as a first major and music as a second. She was employed...
Geneva Holcombe
Mar 23, 2016
Geneva Powell Holcombe, 87, of Rosman, passed away on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. A native and lifelong resident of Rosman, she was a daughter of the late Marion Cornelius Powell and Callie Emilee Aiken Powell. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband Robert Hinton Holcombe who passed away in 2000, three infant...
Lillian Clark
Mar 22, 2016
Lillian Mary Clark, 80, of Brevard, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. A native of The Bronx, New York, she was the daughter of the late Spencer and Lillian White. In addition to her parents she was also preceded in death by her husband of 41 years, William B. Clark, her brother James White and her son-in-law Vincent...
Shirley Chappuis
Mar 18, 2016
Shirley Anna Fournet Chappuis, born December 16, 1925 in St. Martinville located in South Louisiana, passed away on March 18, 2016. Shirley was the daughter of Mildred and Valsin Fournet. Shirley was raised in St. Martinville and then attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where she studied Home Economics and Education, graduating in 1946 with a BS degree....
George Sisk
Mar 18, 2016
George Robert Sisk, age 71 of Brevard and Myrtle Beach, SC, passed away at Asheville Mission Specialty hospital on March 18, 2016 as a result of heart failure. Having been born in Rosman on July 12, 1944 to Loonie Franklin and Maxine Arnett Sisk, he was reared by his grandparents, Allen and Kitty (Mean Momma) Sisk as well as...
James Sheafer
Mar 17, 2016
James Foster Sheafer, 83, of Brevard, passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2016. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of the late Harley Foster and Edith May Walters Sheafer. In addition to his parents he was also preceded in death by his wife, Dorris Andersen Sheafer, his son Steven Martin Sheafer, and his sister Mickey Lyles....