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Please contact the family for service details.\nMay she rest in peace, forever cherished and deeply missed."}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/15/2025","age":90,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/5e957702121d3573d17974ef51dcb4ff/object_Object_8c51f0fee0.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"37b0612d-0638-5a38-9d98-cffc4dd4622d","slug":"article-588","name":"Michael R. Feaster","content":{"data":{"content":"Michael R. Feaster, a dedicated engineer and devout man of faith, passed away on February 15, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Born on March 10, 1948, in Kansas, Michael's life was marked by innovation, craftsmanship, and a deep commitment to his beliefs.\n\nThroughout their career as an electrical mechanical engineer, Michael played a pivotal role in advancing technology. They contributed to the development of inspection technology used on the space shuttle tiles for Apollo 13 and held several patents. Their work primarily focused on cancer treatment equipment, demonstrating a lifelong dedication to improving lives through engineering.\n\nBeyond their professional achievements, Michael found joy in science, woodworking, and nature. They had a passion for working with their hands, whether crafting intricate wood projects or exploring the natural world. Their curiosity and skill left a lasting impression on those who knew them.\n\nMichael was the father of six children: Timothy, Korina, Michael, Terri, Danielle, and Russell. They were also a father figure to Lori. Although estranged at the time of their passing, they shared over 20 years with their wife Gayle.\n\nA devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Michael’s faith was a guiding force throughout their life. Their spiritual devotion provided them with strength and purpose.\n\nA funeral service will be held on February 24, 2025, at City of Oaks Funeral Home, in Raleigh, North Carolina.\n\nMichael R. Feaster’s legacy lives on through their contributions to science and engineering and the memories shared by those who knew them. May their memory bring comfort to all who mourn their passing."}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/15/2025","age":76,"user_updated":true,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"41ffda82-4e29-59c6-83c1-99ab662092bc","slug":"2025-02-14-Michael-Stoner","name":"Michael Stoner","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Sanford","county":"Lee","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/14/2025","age":64,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"ad0aa0a8-7638-5b2d-ad00-3a1b01fe83a9","slug":"article-589","name":"Terry Joseph Migliorino","content":{"data":{"content":"Terry Joseph Migliorino, 85, passed away on February 14, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina.  \n\nBorn on February 1, 1940, in Kane, Pennsylvania, Terry dedicated his life to service and family. He honorably served in the United States Air Force for 20 years, achieving the rank of Master Sergeant. His commitment to duty and country was a defining part of his life.  \n\nBeyond his military career, Terry was a devoted husband and father. He shared many cherished years with his late wife, Carletta Migliorino. His love and dedication to family were evident in all he did.  \n\nHe is survived by his daughter, Brenda Rogers and her husband Cris Rogers.\n\nTerry’s memory will live on in the hearts of those who knew him."}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/14/2025","age":85,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/83ec39712365865f45aed35c3da9e89b/object_Object_ca1cc51a63.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"7e0e878e-a3f7-5d9e-97a0-f1ef5cc918c4","slug":"2025-02-13-Micheal-Kubernack","name":"Micheal Kubernack","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/13/2025","age":67,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"27e3e633-53f6-53b8-9d3e-be92f9800b57","slug":"2025-02-13-Penny-Lozon","name":"Penny Lozon","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/13/2025","age":78,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"f7a2895a-70f1-54c2-815c-c5d39e7744d0","slug":"214-08-25-Albert-Sneed","name":"Albert Sneed","content":{"data":{"content":"On the evening of February 13, 2025, with his children by his side at home, our beloved\nfather, Al Sneed took his last breath. His final battle with cancer was over. His prayers were\nanswered because he petitioned the Lord for a peaceful passing in his sleep. He never wanted\nto be in any home but his own. Thankfully the love of family he taught us prevailed. His\ndaughters Beth and Mary were by his side to comfort and care for him the last six weeks of his\nlife.\n\nHis miraculous story of survival and God’s mercy began at birth on June 24, 1931. When\nhis mother heard these words from the doctor, “Mrs. Sneed, I’m sorry to tell you your newborn\nson will not live past 3 days,” she was naturally terrified, but she was a woman of great faith.\nShe called the Dominican Nuns. The nuns took the newborn, placed him on the altar at Sacred\nHeart Cathedral in downtown Raleigh and began to pray. “And now for the rest of the story,” like\nPaul Harvey used to say (Dad loved that guy).\n\nOver 93 years later, Albert M. Sneed, the youngest son of Dora and Lester Sneed, was\nstill defying the odds. His miraculous recovery at birth was just one of many stories in the life of\na man in perpetual motion. He conquered many more challenges with dignity and determination.\n- bladder and prostate cancers, aortic aneurysm for 30 years, and a pacemaker - but you would\nnever know if you saw him in action. He remained completely independent until the last 2\nmonths of his life. He didn’t have hearing aids, and only needed glasses to thread a needle. His\ndoctors were amazed. In fact they loved seeing him, were inspired by his sharp mind and wit,\nand listened intently as he told his stories about how God saved him from all these illnesses. He\ncalled them his miracles.\n\nHe combined his servant heart with a strong work ethic, giving us a great example of\nhow to use God given abilities and entrepreneurship to make a positive impact in the world. As\na youth, he started a lawn business, collected H&S Green stamps, sold squirrels and held a\npaper route for over 10 years, where he was awarded paperboy of the year in 1943 for the\nRaleigh Times afternoon newspaper. But he was just getting started.\n\nHe worked and saved so much he was able to send Hershey bars, nylon stockings for\nthe ladies, and cigarettes to his older brother Les in the Mediterranean theatre of operation\nduring World War II. When the war was over, he purchased an actual airplane to give to his\noldest brother Edgar, a navy veteran pilot. Brother Edgar was starting a flight instruction school,\nand little brother Albert wanted to help. He was always giving something. If you needed it, he\nwould give it to you.\n\nA brief illness ended his college education, but he didn’t miss a beat. He went to work for\nSears Roebuck and Company in a brand new store at the newly developed Cameron Village\nShopping Center in 1952. This job launched his 36 year career with America’s biggest retailer.\nHe sold sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, watches, sporting goods and anything else they\nasked him to sell. He even helped develop the original specifications for the first line of Kenmore\nappliances. Recognizing the work ethic of women, he was one of the first to place women in\nsales and management positions. As he climbed the corporate ladder, he built new and\nprofitable divisions for the company and even got to shake hands with heavy weight champ Joe\nLouis at a national sales meeting.\n\nThe caption to the photo read, “Champ met Champ.” Our dad knocked GE out of the top\nspot in sales nationwide in the 1960’s, and Joe Louis knocked out his own heavyweight\nchallengers. Sears V.P.’s were taking notice. He retired from national headquarters in the Sears\nTower (now the Willis Tower) - in Chicago. He held the title of Executive Vice President,\nreflecting his significant contributions to the company’s operations and strategic direction during\nhis tenure.\n\nAfter retiring from Sears, he remarried, having been divorced from our mother for about\nthree years (both of his wives were named Jean - how convenient). We referred to his new\nJean, with her approval of course, as Jean II. They moved to a beautiful home on Naples Bay in\nFlorida and began to enjoy the good life together with their pet poodles and a rescued white\n\nMaltese named Jingles. They even co-authored a children’s book together about Jingles: Guess\nWho Came for Christmas? The Story of Mr. Jingles.\nThere would be no resting in retirement for our dad. To say he stayed active would be\nlike calling the Grand Canyon a ditch - a gross understatement. His mind was always reeling\nwith ways to help support charities, and he used the experience from his early days with Sears\nin Cameron Village to fix the sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and watches he learned so\nmuch about in his first retail jobs. He would refurbish these items and donate them to charitable\nthrift stores.\n\nDad’s love affair with thrift stores arose from his frugal nature. Growing up during the\ndepression in a house with seven children creates a lasting effect on a person, and our father\nwas a very eloquent example of frugality. He took it to another level. In Naples, he created a\nunified Thrift Store marketing flyer and convinced them the idea would increase sales. Some of\nthem tried to resist his idea, but resistance was futile. Business increased according to some of\nthe store managers. Dad was their new hero, unless they actually wanted to retire.\n\nIf you needed a vacuum cleaner, he would get you one. If you needed a watch, he had\none. He started a program he called “Someone is Watching You.” If he saw someone doing\nsomething nice, he would hand them a watch and say, “I saw you do this nice thing the other\nday, and I want you to know that someone is watching you.” He would then present them with a\nwatch. Some of us ended up with watches, vacuum cleaners and sewing machines even though\nwe didn’t really need one. It was hard to turn him down. Sometimes we would just say ‘yes’ to\nget him to stop asking. He was born to sell.\n\nWhen his beloved Jean II passed, he couldn’t stand to be alone. The retirement home\nscene was not for him, so he moved back to his home town of Raleigh, where continued fixing\nsewing machines, vacuum cleaners and watches for the thrift stores to sell and raise money for\nthe charities they supported.\n\nHe cared for his widow sister-in-law Cecilia until she developed dementia. When she\nrequired professional skilled care, he would have to bow out of the home to allow the\nprofessionals to work without interference.\n\nOur brother John came to the rescue and got Dad moved into their home one weekend.\nIn one great act of selflessness, John and his wife Dawn gave up their master bedroom for Dad\nto live in until we could build an addition onto the house for Dad.\n\nPicking up right where he left off, his new residence began to fill with sewing machines,\nvacuum cleaners and watches to refurbish and deliver to the volunteer angels at A-to-Z Thrift\nStore. All the while, he continued his friendship with Charlie Jones and his rescue dog Archie.\nDad would go see him nearly every Monday morning, even during his cancer treatment. Charlie\nused to help him print owner’s manuals for the vacuum cleaners and sewing machines. Charlie\neven brought Archie to see Dad after he could no longer drive in his final months.\n\nHis greatest miracle was about to unfold - the miracle of reconciliation. After decades of\nbitterness from the divorce with his first wife, the Lord began to work on his heart. On the\nmorning of August 10, 2023, as I sat with him, he asked me to give a message to our mother.\nHe wanted to wish her a happy birthday. I was on my way down to surprise our mom. It would\nbe her 90th birthday. I suggested we could record the message on my phone.\n\nHe said “okay,” and I pressed the record button. What followed was more than a birthday\nwish that August of 2023. My father humbly apologized to her and the entire family for any hurt\nhe had caused her or the family. He told her he loved her and her twin sister, wished them a\nhappy birthday, and offered his assistance in any way they might need. When he finished the\nrecording, he looked at me and said, “I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from my\nshoulders.” A sense of peace washed over him.\n\nWhen I played the message for our mother Jean, she was overjoyed. They spent time\ntogether the next summer, and it was an amazing example of God’s glory and mercy in\nredemption. He even became friends with her husband Bernie.\n\nThere was no quit in this man. One week before he passed, an elderly lady brought a\nsewing machine to him. He got dressed, which was a real chore, and when she arrived, they\nworked together and made it operate “just like new” as he used to love to say. This was a\nclassic example of his creed: go out of your way to do something nice for someone everyday.\n\nHe is survived his two younger sisters Barbara Newton of Chapel Hill and Phyllis\nVermilyea of Winston Salem, and by his five children Beth Moss (Steve), Nancy Hawks\n(Stephen), David Sneed (Rennie Marie), Mary Voss, and John Sneed (Dawn), grandchildren\nTorrey Moss (Renee), Taylor Moss, Kelli Brown (Kyle), Miranda Hawks, Mary Catherine Hawks,\nJohn Kokoszka, Bella Wyffels, Ava Wyffels and Abigail Sneed and great grandchildren Fischer\nand Snowden Moss and Halden, Adler and Arden Brown. He also has a host of nieces and\nnephews, a few of whom might have a spare watch if you need one.\n\nHe is preceded in death by his first wife Jean (Zahuranec), the mother of his children,\nhis second wife Jean Sneed, and his parents, Lester Mathews Sneed and Dora Mangels Sneed,\nhis brothers Edgar Morris Sneed, Lester Mathews Sneed, Henry Micou Sneed and his sister\nMary Sneed Voss.\n\nA funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:00 o’clock in the\nmorning at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2718 Overbrook Dr., Raleigh, NC 27608.\nReception following mass in the Falon Center. All are welcome.\n\nIn lieu of flowers or donations, our father wants us all to go out of our way to do\nsomething extra special for someone each day. Plant a seed of love and watch it grow.\n\nSpeaking of doing something extra special, we would like to thank Heartland Hospice\n(Reagan, Angela, and Diedre) for the exceptional care they gave us in supporting our father in\nhis last few weeks, and Pat Sherry in Naples Florida, our father’s very special friend - among\nmany friends he made everywhere he went.\n\n"}},"city":"Garner","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/13/2025","age":93,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/898903b97b94e96b6558e5e0948125f8/Albert_Sneed_Obit_Picture_dde0e6a236.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"6cf69da5-c90b-5a6f-bd09-6aac8fb2cb88","slug":"2025-02-13-Charles-Byrd","name":"Charles Ray Byrd","content":{"data":{"content":"Charles Ray Byrd, 84, of Chapel Hill, NC, passed away on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at The Pines Health Center in Carolina Meadows.\n\nCharlie was born on July 8, 1940, in Asheboro, NC. He graduated from Asheboro High School in 1958 and Appalachian State University in 1963. He began his career as a teacher at Northeast Guilford High School before transitioning to a role as a production manager with Burlington Industries in Burlington and Gastonia, NC. In 1974, he moved to Chapel Hill and spent 23 years as the Assistant Manager of the textbook department at the UNC-Chapel Hill Student Stores. Charlie was known for his sense of humor and love of sports.\n\nCharlie was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie Herman Byrd and Myrtle Maynor Byrd. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jane Walker Byrd; his daughters, Elizabeth Jackson (Steve) of Issaquah, WA, and Jayna Patterson (Brook) of High Point, NC; and his grandchildren, Zoe Jackson, Ian Jackson, Myles Patterson, and Nolan Patterson.\n\nA memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Appalachian State Charles R. Byrd and Family Endowed Scholarship through the Office of Donor Stewardship, ASU Box 32110, Boone, NC 28608, or by calling (828) 262-6561."}},"city":"Chapel Hill","county":"Chatham","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/13/2025","age":84,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/400c1bbdcbf66a589e802a9facf5358a/object_Object_ef469b9b10.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"80336a92-b8f5-5838-9465-2d9f00291eca","slug":"2025-02-13-Deanna-Lord","name":"Deanna Audrey Lord","content":{"data":{"content":"On September 15, 1964, Deanna Audrey Lord was born to her parents, David and Audrey Lindo (and they are deceased).  Deanna and her older sister grew up on the idyllic grounds of Belcour Lodge in Jamaica, surrounded by members of their extended family.\n\n  Along with her mom, Deanna relocated to Tampa, Florida and finished high school.  She then attended (and graduated from) Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia, where she met her future husband.  Married in 1989, they resided in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Later, in 2001, they bought a cottage on Bald Head Island, North Carolina, which became their haven.     \n\n  Deanna began work as a teacher at St. Timothy’s Episcopal School.  Deanna’s tenure at the School, covering more than two decades, was interrupted by the births of her two daughters.  The School posted a tribute to her and her service here, https://www.facebook.com/StTimothysSchoolRaleigh/posts/pfbid02RXsAAijVU82zAoUEPyu4CAUtQH5MNXyQkSK46Kv5qwmrFcH2jYf2fji1c3Jkmamfl.  \n         \n  Also upon her arrival in Raleigh, Deanna began worshiping at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church.  She was an active member in the church and served on the Vestry.  Deanna was a member of the Order of the Daughters of the King, too. \n\n\tOn February 13, 2025, Deanna passed away peacefully while attended by her family.  Deanna had been battling pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer with a team of amazing providers at Duke University Hospital and Raleigh Family Practice.  \n\n\tAs those who knew Deanna, none of these titles (daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, teacher, parishioner, and friend), either individually or collectively, give any depth to how special a person she was.   \n\n  Deanna’s funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 8th, at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Raleigh.  The service will be live-streamed and also recorded here, St. Timothy's Episcopal Church (Raleigh, NC) - YouTube.  Immediately following the service, a celebration of her well-lived life be held in the Parish Hall.  We welcome you to attend.\n\n\tDeanna is survived by her husband, Michael C. Lord; her daughters, Meghan Davis Lord and Taylor Broderick Lord Reeves; her sister, Donna Thompson; her son-in law, Sam Reeves; her nieces, Amanda Oliver and Allie Thompson; her nephew, Billy Lord; her aunts, Sandra Kumst, Marguerite Bennett, and Melanie Broderick; her first cousins (Lisa, Bridget, Christina, Yanina, Patrick, Cathy, Anthony, and Kayleigh); her brothers-in-law, Scott Thompson and John F. Lord, III; and her parents-in-law, John Foley Lord, Jr. and Gladys Davis Lord.  \n\n\tIn lieu of flowers, please donate in Deanna’s name to any of the following institutions which she felt strongly about:\n\nSt. Timothy’s Episcopal Church\thttps://sttimothyschurch.org/giving\n\nSt. Timothy’s School                          https://sttimothys.org/ways-to-give/\n\nDuke Health   https://www.gifts.duke.edu/dmaa?technique_code=DHORGGB1Duke (select Duke Cancer Institute Fund)"}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/13/2025","age":60,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/341b291bbeed5256f779db746eb39e53/object_Object_504f1ee1de.jpeg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"281c5170-5833-50a4-931d-7f0febcca5d1","slug":"2025-02-12-Jerry-Davis","name":"Jerry Davis","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Cary","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/12/2025","age":83,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"506c4670-0f47-5565-833b-eb5204a6f2b4","slug":"2025-02-12-Penny-Chaffee","name":"Penny Chaffee","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Clayton","county":"Johnston","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/12/2025","age":72,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"d994666a-2d8c-54f5-9bc6-b9f15d4dea05","slug":"2025-02-12-Joane-Dahl","name":"Joane Dahl","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Clarendon","county":"Columbus","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"02/12/2025","age":0,"user_updated":false,"image":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":1044,"numPages":316,"currentPage":88,"numObits":3792,"featured":false}},
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