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ROCKY MOUNT –– Elsworth Barnes, 91, of Rocky Mount, died on July 16, 2014.

HOLLISTER - Charlie Louis Boone, 79, died on Saturday, July 19, 2014.

SPRING HOPE  - Helen Melvin Cone, 90, passed away on July 17, 2014. Helen was born November 12, 1923 in Goldsboro to George Herbert and Anne Haig Melvin.

ROCKY MOUNT –- Wilbur Ray Drake, 59, of Rocky Mount, died on July 17, 2014.

Wilbert Horne 91, of Rocky Mount died Friday, July 18, 2014.

NASHVILLE - Jack Outlaw  passed away, 82, July 15, 2014.  He was born in Nash County on May 2, 1932 to the late Marable and Mattie Skinner Outlaw. He is preceded in death by his parents and son Tony Outlaw.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Iris Demetrius “Meat-Meat” Western Parker, 54, of Rocky Mount, died on July 13, 2014.

NASHVILLE - Nonie B. Richardson, 93, died on Tuesday, July 15, 2014.

ROCKY MOUNT –– Magdalene Sumler, 52, of Rocky Mount, died on July 21, 2014.

ROCKY MOUNT - Junior Winstead passed away on July 15, 2014.  He was born in Nash County on September 7, 1939 to the late Otha F. Winstead, Sr. and Sallie Weaver. 

NASHVILLE – Mary Elizabeth Smith Rackley, 87 passed away July 13, 2014. She is predeceased by her husband Raymond Holand Rackley, Jr.; parents Thomas Albert Smith and Sarah Long Smith; brothers Hubert, David, Floyd, Albert Jr. and sisters, Lottie, Helen and Doris.

Christine Beatrice Trevathan Edwards, 79, passed away July 17, 2014.  She was born in Nash County on May 28, 1935 to the late Henry Wilson Trevathan and Minnie Gertrude Jones.  Christine is preceded in death by her husband, Hubert James Edwards;  brother Mack Allen Trevathan, Sr.; sisters, Martha E. T. Glover Minnick and Maxine Trevathan Guthrie.

Alice Elaine Tonlino Stall, age 85, passed away on July 18, 2014. She was preceded in death by George F. Drosehn and one granddaughter.

Dorothy Lancaster, 84,  passed away July 15, 2014.  She was born in Franklin County on April 15, 1930 to the late John M. Driver and Fannie Mae Moye. Dorothy is preceded in death by her husband Glenn “Yogi” Lancaster.

Marguerite K. Brewer, 92, of Rocky Mount, passed away on Friday, July 18, 2014. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Clyde Heyward Brewer, her parents, John and Eugenia Krauss, and her brothers, John and Howard Krauss.

Zulene Thorne, 74 of Spring Hope, passed away July 20, 2014.

Despite the pleas of citizens, the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education voted last week to close the doors of the current O.R. Pope Elementary School building and move students and staff to D.S. Johnson and Fairview Elementary Schools.
The decision was made last Wednesday evening at a meeting held in the gymnasium at O.R. Pope Elementary School.

Just over a week remains for filing for six available seats on the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education and so far, no one has filed for two of the seats.
No one has filed for the District Eight and District Nine Seats on the Board. The seats are currently held by Reginald Silver and Robert Bynum.

If you were in the southern end of the county last weekend, and drove past a yard teeming with people in black shirts and blue jeans, don’t be alarmed.
It was not a gathering of a new cult, a simmering protest or the result of a special at the GAP. It was family portrait time.
Every couple of years, the family matriarch, my mama, puts the call out for an updated portrait of the entire family.

Around a year ago at this time, I was pretty sure two was the worst age ever.
I was wrong.
It’s three.
Three has been a challenging age for my little Corbin.
I’ve enjoyed watching him grow and even more so, have enjoyed watching him be a big brother.

You can imagine how much copy we process  here at The Graphic  every week including hundreds of e-mails, faxes and walk-in requests. We type, edit and write articles to complete an average of 20 - 24 pages of local news, sports and advertising each week – and sometimes almost double when we publish special editions. We work on all that copy while also  attending meetings and functions and taking photographs.

It’s About People
•To those of you who read my threads often, you have heard me speak of what it was like raised on a farm in rural Greene County. No one worked on salary schedule back in the day; the person who earned the most was the owner of the land; the landlord.  There was no law to dictate how much—if any-- the landlord paid share croppers.

COMPARING TICKETS –- We belive this photo was first published in The Graphic in 1966. Donnie Deans (left) of the Deans Community and John Astor Winstead of Nashville compare tickets from sales on the Rocky Mount Tobacco Market. Donnie and his father sold 600 pounds for an average of 65 cents per pound. Winstead sold 1800 pounds for an average of 62 cents. Both farmers said they were pleased with their sales.

INCIDENTS
A larceny was reported on 7/14/14 at LBJ, 815 E Washingon Street
A larceny after a breaking and entering and breaking and entering a motor vehicle was reported on 7/14/14 at Cavalier Homes, 1001 Eastern Avenue

A possible larceny of boats was reported on 7/7/14 at 8383 Driver Road
A narcotics violation was reported on 7/7/14 at 10849 Church Street
A larceny from a motor vehicle was reported on 7/8/14 at 12959 S NC 231
A domestic violence protective order violation was reported on 7/8/14 on Southern Nash High Road