OBITUARY: Charlie Toineeta

  Charlie Toineeta, 71, of the Big Cove Community, went home to be with the Lord Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. A native of Cherokee, he was the son of the late George Howard and Tiney Smith Toineeta. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by three...

OBITUARY: Cecil D. Queen

  SYLVA – Cecil Doc Queen, age 85, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Cecil was born in Whittier and later moved to Detroit, Mich. in the early 1950s where he married his sweetheart Julia and began his family. Cecil moved back to North Carolina in...

OBITUARY: Loretta Rattler Adams

  LEICESTER – Loretta Rattler Adams, 65, died peacefully at her home on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022 after battling dementia for several years. She was a member of Sunnyside Missionary Baptist Church, a 1974 graduate of Clyde A. Erwin High School, received her AAS...

OBITUARY: Hazel Gunter Young

  Hazel Gunter Young, 87, of Whittier, passed away Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Born Nov. 7, 1934, she was the daughter of the late Oscar Gunter and Florence Phillips. Hazel was the former owner and operator of several gift shops in Cherokee. She enjoyed reading,...

OBITUARY:  John Lewis Bradley

  John Lewis Bradley, age 81, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, after a courageous battle with cancer. John was preceded in death by his parents, Lewis Jim Bradley and Catherine Bowman Bradley; brother, Soloman Dane Bradley; and grandparents, Roy and Grace...

OBITUARIES: Nicholas Daniel Bird

  Nicholas “Rupert” Daniel Bird, age 38, of Cherokee, passed away on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 following a brief hospital stay at the Memorial Campus of Mission Hospitals in Asheville. Rupert is the son of parents Richard Bird and Judy (Huskey) Bird and made his way...