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Joyce was 81 years old.  Joyce was a loving mother to 2, a grandmother to 3 and a great grandmother to 2.    \n\nJoyce was a Jersey girl, born in Westfield NJ, she was the youngest of 5.  She was the only one to graduate High School.   She loved going to NY to dance and had a life long love of dance.  She was artistic and created beautiful pictures, paintings and crafts.  \n\nJoyce always put her family first and had a kind, warm heart.  She also learned to develop a feisty edge when it was needed.   \n\nJoyce will be intensely missed by her family and all who knew her."}},"city":"Coates","county":"Johnston","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/09/2023","age":81,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/bffe2d486ed99b2f8854e7ac785b8b44/object_Object_d36f5e33d3.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"4d32f9fc-d2eb-56bc-a8db-7ed45aca29b2","slug":"article-158","name":"Albert Haygood","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Cary","county":"Chatham","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/08/2023","age":81,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"174b3f3a-9e91-53d5-b60d-2707e6726906","slug":"article-195","name":"Ciera Neeley","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Colombia","county":"Richland","state":"South Carolina","deathdate":"08/08/2023","age":35,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"d0bbabba-f2fe-5288-80f7-0698031b8c1b","slug":"2023-08-07-Christopher-Beichner","name":"Christopher Beichner","content":{"data":{"content":"Christopher A. Beichner, 57, of Pittsboro, North Carolina, formerly of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died on Monday, August 7th, 2023 of heart failure.\n\nChris was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1966 and spent most of his childhood growing up in the North Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He graduated from York Suburban High School in 1984 and attended Penn State University and, later, California University of Pennsylvania. Born significantly premature, Chris was predicted never to walk as a child, but surpassed all odds to become a baseball-playing, bike-riding, ping pong champion of the local swim club by his teens. \n\nAs a young man, Chris - inevitably known as “Beek” - began his career working for grocery food distributors based out of Pittsburgh, and loved going to baseball games, bars, and concerts in downtown Pittsburgh with his brothers and friends. In his mid-30s, he decided to go back to college and train to become a high school Social Studies teacher, a career that would take him to North Carolina. \n\nDuring his 20 years in education, Chris taught at Northampton County High School - West, Roanoke Rapids High School, and Carrboro High School. He cultivated a gruff classroom persona, and was particularly known for declaring, in response to students plaintively asking if they would ever get a free day to “just have fun,” that there was (quote): “No fun in Civics!” Despite, or more likely because of, his sarcastic ways, he had a gift for connecting with students of all levels and backgrounds and was much-loved for his dry sense of humor, his encouragement of students to develop their own opinions and voices, his passion for history, and his penchant for tossing mints to students with correct answers.\n\nIn addition to teaching, Chris also loved coaching baseball for the Northampton West Hurricanes - taking that team to the playoffs in 2007 for the first time in local memory - and the Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets, until he physically could not any more. Even after moving to North Carolina, Chris remained an avid Pittsburgh Pirates fan (a true sign of his capacity for faith, even in the darkest times) and followed Penn State football religiously, if occasionally angrily. \n\nIn North Carolina, he met his wife, Anne, a fellow Social Studies teacher, and won her over with his humor, kindness, intelligence and willingness to go on history-themed vacations. They were together for 19 years total and had just celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary a few days before Chris’s death. He was a loving and supportive partner and husband. \n\nChris was preceded in death by his parents, William Max and Ellen Marie Beichner. Surviving him are his wife, Anne; his brothers, including Bill (and wife Kelly); his nieces and nephews Chelsea (and husband Joseph) Matarazzo, Nicole Beichner, and Max Beichner; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins, including his cousin and best friend Mike Roseman (and wife Christina); and in-laws, Tom, Betty, and Mike Waznis. \n\nIn a lighthearted conversation a few months before he died, Chris insisted that his wife include the following in his obituary: \n\nFirst, potential titles for his (inevitable) biography, which included Bright, But Not Quite Shining: The Chris Beichner Story (from a college professor’s comment on one of his papers) and Surprisingly Better Than Average: The Chris Beichner Story (from his high school guidance counselor, in response to his SAT scores).\n\nAnd second - so destined to offend that we almost left it out of this obituary - that in a world where three-time Cy Young Award winner Chris Beichner regularly strode to the plate for a Major League Baseball team, his walk-up music would be the guitar riff from “Your Own Personal Jesus,” with fans encouraged to sing “Your own. Per-so-nal. Beich-ner.”\n\nIn Chris’s honor, the family will be attending a Pirates baseball game next Spring. If you are interested in attending or would like to share a memory of Chris, please reach out to cbeichnermemorial@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Pirates Charities, online, or at 115 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212."}},"city":"Pittsboro","county":"Chatham","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/07/2023","age":57,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/d87201183da88c56d3e35791cd8a96c9/object_Object_c7caa04966.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"b54c9abf-be33-56a1-94c6-2ebf0b7c9654","slug":"article-155","name":"Ronald Earl Heath","content":{"data":{"content":"Ronald Earl Heath, Sr, 80, of Raleigh, NC, passed away the evening of August 7, 2023, barely two months after his wife of 60 years, Charlotte, passed. A couple of weeks ago his heart began to fail, seemingly broken from grief. He is free now from all the pain he has endured for so long.\n\nHe answered to lots of names including Ron, Ronnie, Big Ron, Dad and Papa, and he owned a series of gas and service stations on Six Forks, along Hillsborough Street at the corners of Gorman, Daisy and Glenwood, and lastly on St Mary’s Street at Johnson. He knew his customers, knew their stories, and when it came time for them to pay, he would often ask what they could afford or tell them to pay him when they could.\n\nIf you were lucky enough to meet him, you never forgot him. His personality was big and magnetic, and he was so charismatic you would think he was a movie star. In fact, his final service station was selected as a film site for an independent movie called Bandwagon being made in Raleigh. It didn’t take long before they asked him to play the main character’s boss. He even got his own IMDB page out of the deal.\n\nRon was one of those people who was just good at stuff – not just sports like baseball, racquetball and golf, but also mechanics, poker and the gift of gab. He watched football with his family on Sundays and taught the rules and maybe a little about betting odds too. When the Hurricanes came to NC, he bought Hockey for Dummies and was soon teaching us the game. His pig pickins were legendary and all major Heath milestones were celebrated with one. As he got older, he read constantly, devouring several books a week and could tell you the plot of them all.\n\nThe thing he excelled at the most in his life was being Papa to his grandchildren. He loved Emma, Anna, Maggie and Henry so much. He held them as babies and sang to them, and as they got older, he spent hours reading to them, watching cartoons and coloring. He colored so many sea creatures and dinosaurs; the walls of the living room were covered with art. Papa was patient and kind and so very proud of them.\n\nRon was born on January 28, 1943, to Appie Clyde Fields Heath and Bill Heath, in Greene County, NC. He joined the Marine Corp in 1960 at the age of 17 and not long after was medically discharged due to a heart murmur. His girlfriend, Charlotte, broke up with him when he joined, but they kept writing to each other anyway. Perhaps even then his heart couldn’t handle being away from her. After he was discharged, he went back to her, they married on November 17, 1962, and were together the rest of their lives. In 1969, they relocated to Raleigh where they raised their four children, all of whom stayed in the area. He is survived by his children, Ron (and Becky) Heath, Jr., Mark (and Amy) Heath, Shelly Heath (and Barry Pierce) and Helen (and Malcolm) Green; his three beautiful granddaughters, Emma, Anna and Maggie; as well as his sisters Penny and Linda, and many nieces and nephews.\n\nRon was predeceased by his wife, Charlotte, his parents Appie Clyde and Bill, stepmother Ledar, his sisters Becky, Beverly and Ruth, and his grandson, Henry Green.\n\nHis family will receive visitors at the location of his last service station which is now home to My Way Tavern at 522 St Mary’s St, Raleigh, NC 27605, between 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. on Monday, August 14, 2023.\n\nRon’s children will carry their parents’ ashes to the family’s river house in Charlotte, NC, for a celebration of life to be held on September 9, 2023. Ron’s and Charlotte’s ashes will then be interred next to their beloved grandson, Henry, at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Ron’s memory to the American Heart Association at heart.org/donate.\n\nHis family gives thanks to the staff of Litchford Falls Nursing Home, ProMedica Heartland Hospice and City of Oaks Cremation for their support."}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/07/2023","age":80,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/45e1a9c52e1c8bdb182ac82995f42b60/Heath_1f0e989ee5.jpg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"8ae252fd-49f9-5d0b-b590-d99cbf20269d","slug":"2023-08-07-Cecilia-Collins","name":"Cecilia  Collins","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/07/2023","age":70,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"32243bfe-6eec-5fd9-b112-bc96a78f4bb1","slug":"article-154","name":"Thomas Frank Piatkowski","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"08/06/2023","age":84,"user_updated":false,"image":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":2292,"numPages":317,"currentPage":192,"numObits":3797,"featured":false}},
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