Frances Hunter Passmore Brevard - Frances Hunter Passmore, 76, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at Transylvania Regional Hospital. A native of Jackson County, NC, she was the daughter of the late J.H. and Louise Hawkins Hunter. She was a member of St. Timothy United Methodist Church and served on the Communion...

Beulah O'Brien Meier, 101, died Wednesday, September third in Brevard, North Carolina where she had lived for the past nine years. She was born in Indianapolis. Her father was the financial editor of the Indianapolis News, at one time the sister publication of the Star. She outlived her six siblings and is survived by thirteen nephews and...

Julia F. Whitney Brevard - Julia F. Whitney, 66, died Saturday, June 28, 2008 at Memorial Campus of Mission Hospitals. A native of Forest Hills, NY, she was the daughter of the late Ercil R. and Ebba Eliason Hevner. Prior to retiring here in 1992, the Whitney's returned to the mountains of western North Carolina which they...

Mordecia "Decia" Neely Brevard - Mordecia "Decia" Neely, 97, died Monday, April 28, 2008 at Transylvania Community Hospital. A native of Transylvania County, she was the daughter of the late James Luther and Martha Leona Gidney Saltz. She was also preceded in death by her sisters, Edna Mae Ayers and Christine Scott, and her brothers, Edwin and...

Joseph Asbury Gillespie Joseph Asbury Gillespie of Brevard passed away on Nov. 29, 2008. He was born on December 28, 1924 in East Fork where he grew up. He was the son of the late Elmer and Victoria Gillespie. He was a direct descendant of the18th century rifle makers and he was preceded in death by his...

Deeree Patterson - Brevard Deeree Patterson, 81, went to be with the Lord on Sunday February 17, 2008 at The Oaks. She was born in Transylvania County in 1926, to the late Philmore and Berdie Searcy. She was predeceased by her husband Harry, and a son Bob Justice. She was a great mother and loving person. Anyone...

William F. Turnbull Brevard - William F. Turnbull, of Brevard, died Sunday, October 26, 2008 at Fours Season Hospice & Palliative Care in Flat Rock, NC. He was preceded in death by his wife Blanche Turnbull who died in 1978 and a son Billy Turnbull. He served in the US Coast Guard during WWII and was a...

Rosman - Johnnie L. Gillespie passed Oct 3, 2008. He was born in Sumter, SC and as a baby, his family moved to East Fork where he grew up. The family became a large family over the years. He was the son of the late Elmer and Victoria Gillespie, six generations removed from the rifle makers of...

Don Baynard Pisgah Forest - William Donald Baynard, 81, died Tuesday, April 23, 2008 at Transylvania Community Hospital. A native of Transylvania County, he was the son of the late Carl and Evelyn King Baynard. He was also preceded in death by his brothers, Bruce Baynard and Hicks Baynard, and his sister, Ruth Crouse. Don was a...

Elizabeth Featherstone Riley Kapp Tyson Brevard - Elizabeth Featherstone Riley Kapp Tyson died Marsh 18, 2008 at Brian Center of Brevard. She was born May 26, 1912 in Macon, GA, the daughter of Mary Glenn Featherstone Riley and Laurence Holdridge Riley. She graduated from Southwestern University in Memphis where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta...