Today's Obituaries and Guest Books

GREENSBORO — Grace Allen died on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Forbis & Dick Guilford Chapel.

ASHEBORO — Harvey Windsor Anderson, age 90, died Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Pugh Funeral Home Chapel in Asheboro.

GREENSBORO — Mary Matthews Avery died on June 14, 2013. A graveside service for Mrs. Avery will be 12:00 Noon Wednesday June 19, 2013 at Maplewood Cemetery Greensboro, NC. Hinnant Funeral Service is assisting the Avery Family.

GREENSBORO — Willie Mae Glover Benton died Sunday, June 16, 2013. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Hargett Funeral Service.

SEAGROVE — Pearl Marley Buie, age 71, died Sunday June 16, 2013. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Kennedy Funeral Home in Robbins is serving the Buie family.

SEVEN LAKES — Gregory Alan Cloud, 51, died on June 16, 2013. All services will be private. Boles Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc. in Seven Lakes will be assisting the family.

GREENSBORO — Shannon Dale Dixon, 41, a resident of Greensboro died Sunday June 16, 2013 at Beacon Place. Shannon was born June 3, 1972 in Greensboro, the daughter of James Robert Dixon and Vanessa Miller Dixon. She attended the Gateway Education Center. Shannon was preceded in death by her mother.

Surviving are her father and step-mother, James Robert Dixon and Gloria Dixon of Rogersville, TN; one sister, Tracie Nelson of Reidsville; one brother, James Lester Dixon of WI and several aunts and uncles.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Home Sedgefield Chapel conducted by the Reverend Dr. Jessie W. Bledsoe. Interment will follow in Guilford Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday from 12 p.m. until service time.

The family has requested that memorials be made in Shannon's memory to Bell house, Inc. 2400 Summit Ave. Greensboro, NC 27405 or to Beacon Place 2500 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC 27405.

Online condolences can be made at www.haneslineberryfuneralhomes.com

TODD — Ronald Marvin Drum, age 69, of Todd, North Carolina, passed away in the loving comfort of his family on Friday morning, June 14, 2013 at Ashe Memorial Hospital. A memorial service will be at Boone Family Funeral Home in West Jefferson, NC at 3 p.m. on Wednesday June 19th.

Born in Gastonia, North Carolina on April 16, 1944 to the late Jentes G. Drum, who served in World War II, and Virginia H. Drum, Ron spent his childhood in the Piedmont region surrounded by friends and family, especially those in the small community of Hot Springs.

After college, Ron moved to Huntsville, Alabama, working proudly as a contractor for NASA, contributing to the Gemini and Apollo space programs where, among other projects, he helped develop the instrumentation for the first lunar rover. While in Huntsville he met his wife, the former Dianne Marie Dill, who has remained his loving spouse for the past 39 years.

Ron and Dianne returned to North Carolina in the mid-1970s, pursuing his career in the textile industry and raising their son, Daniel, in Gastonia and Rockingham. They moved to Greensboro in the mid-1990s, where Ron retired from Unifi, Inc. in August 2009. In recent years, they have enjoyed retirement at their idyllic mountain retreat in Todd, NC, where Ron was able to revel in the tranquility of the landscape, its bountiful trout streams, and his many friends.

In recent years, upon diagnosis of cancer, Ron fought this disease with the same the vigor and steadfastness with which he tackled all of life's challenges...far and away exceeding any pre-conceived medical notions of life expectancy and quality. During his long battle, he maintained an active schedule of fly-fishing, travel, and home-repair projects with his wife, Dianne, and son, Daniel, both of whom survive, saddened by his passing but rejoicing in his peace, memory, and good works.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorials be directed to the institutions which helped Ron throughout his later years, either: the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center for Research, Campus Box 7295, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7295 or Hospice of Ashe County, PO Box 421, 392 Hwy 88 East, Jefferson, NC 28640.

You may give the family your condolences at our website www.boonefuneralhome.com

Boone Family Funeral Home of West Jefferson is in charge of these arrangements.

SANFORD — Minnie Feinstein, 98, died Sunday, June 16, 2013. A Memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Rogers Memorial Chapel. Arrangements are by Rogers-Pickard Funeral Home.

JUNE 10, 2013

GREENSBORO — Roy Lee Hill passed away on June 10, 2013. He is survived by his sons Roy Harrelson and Roy Hill Jr., daughters Gameshia Graves and Bonita Baskerville. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. at Perry J. Brown Funeral Home. Please leave condolences at www.news-record.com/ob ituaries