Wingate High School Alumni Obituaries

Capron Walter Wingate Winky Futrell Jr. 82 beloved husband father brother and PaPa passed away February 2 2026. A lifelong resident of Southampton County he was the son of the late Walter Wingate Futrell Sr. and Hazel Elizabeth Scott Futrell. Winky was a 1961 graduate of Southampton High School and...

Viola Arbutus Howard Smith 90 of Oakboro passed away Thursday January 22 2026 at Trinity Place in Albemarle. Funeral Services will be held at 200PM Wednesday January 28 2026 at Mineral Springs Baptist Church in Oakboro Dr. Kinney Wallace will officiate and interment will follow in the church cemeter...

Edward E. “Buck” Levins 84, was called home to his Lord and Savior Tuesday, January 13, 2026 while surrounded by family. He was the New Year’s Baby born January 1, 1942 in Montezuma, Georgia. Buck was a 1960 graduate of Warner Robins High School and later attended Berry College in Rome, Georgia. ...

Larry Edsel Crane 88 of Newark died Sunday January 18 2026 at Altercare North in Newark. He was born November 10 1937 in Newark to the late Guilford and Alvena Wortsel Crane. Larry was a 1956 graduate of Newark High School and a proud veteran of the U.S. Army serving honorably from 1958 to 1962. He ...

Lurlean V ictoria Bess Mack was born on April 25, 1927, by a mid-wife in a large wooden house, in the rural area of Darlington County, South Carolina, at Lee’s Cross Road. She was 98 years young and on November 28, 2025, God decided that it was time for His daughter to come home. She was the daughte...