CORNELIUS - Friends and co-workers are coming together to support the family of Lauren Weich, who died suddenly Dec . 1. Ms. Weich was a nurse at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville and lived on Mulberry Street in Cornelius with her fiance´, Grady Garris, and their four daughters. She died two weeks ago from an undiagnosed brain tumor. Christina Ritchie Rogers reports on CorneliusNews.net.

Family and friends of Davidson College math professor Robert Whitton are invited to a celebration of his life, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 19, at 10:30 a.m. in Davidson College Presbyterian Church, 100 N. Main St. in downtown Davidson.
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Updated 1:30 p.m.
Robert Whitton, 67, a longtime Davidson mathematics professor, died Friday night, Nov. 11, 2011, of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car on Nov. 3.

His wife, Amy Diamond, said he passed away around 10:30 p.m. at Carolinas Medical Center, surrounded by his family. “The family asks that we just be kept in everybody’s prayers,” she said. The family will be making funeral plans in the coming days. Read the full story

Funeral services are planned Saturday for Nikko’las Pinkney, who was the victim of a Huntersville house fire Oct.10.

Police and firefighters responded to the fire, at at 13915 Holbrooks Road, early Monday morning. The firefighters on scene made every attempt to rescue nine-year-old Nikko’las Pinkney from the house, but were unsuccessful.

The service for Nikko’las will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Friendship Baptist Church, 3301 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte. A visitation will be held from noon to 1 p.m. before the service.

A.E. Grier & Sons Funeral Ceremony of Choice funeral home is handling the arrangements.

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Oct. 10, 2011: “9-yr.-old dies in Huntersville house fire Mon.”

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Odessa Sloan Hunsucker, a longtime Davidsonian who cooked for Davidson College eating houses, died Sept. 6, 2011. She was 100 years old. Services are Friday. See OBITUARIES»

William M. Ringle Jr.  a longtime Washington and foreign affairs reporter who accompanied President Nixon on his groundbreaking trip to China in 1972, died Monday, Sept. 5, at The Pines at Davidson. He was 88.

A funeral mass is scheduled Friday, Sept. 9, at 2 p.m. at St. Therese Catholic Church, 217 Brawley School Road
Mooresville. A reception for friends is planned at The Pines at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Mr. Ringle was a reporter for nearly a half-century. He was a big fan of news and grasped the importance of both global and local affairs. An obituary in Tuesday’s Washington Post quotes columnist Jack Germond as saying Mr. Ringle was “one of the finest reporters I ever knew.” Read the full story

Addie James, a Statesville-based folk artist whose work is well known to collectors across the area and beyond, passed away Sunday, July 17. Memories from Kate Merrill of Merrill-Jennings Galleries in Davidson and Ms. James’s biographer. See OBITUARIES »

Jennifer Rose Cernuto, 18, of Mooresville, died July 1, 2011, as a result of an automobile accident. A daughter of Jeffery and Lisa Cernuto, she was a 2011 honors graduate of SouthLake Christian Academy and accepted to the honors program at High Point University. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 7, at SouthLake Presbyterian Church with Rev. Wade Malloy and Rev. Adam Mumpower officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Zion Community Cemetery.

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