Living

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Florene Yarborough Florene (daughter of Loney William Yarborough and Frances Viola Wright) was born in 1936 in Raeford, Hoke, North Carolina, USA; died on 10 Jun 2018 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 21 Jun 2019 in Fort Sam Houston Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: White
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Pinehurst, Moore, North Carolina, USA; Age: 4; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

AncestryDNA match https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/04240137-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
managed by Barbara Southers
Predicted relationship: 4th-6th Cousin
Shared DNA: 58 cM across 6 segments

Died:
Florene Y. Craft

Pilot, The (Southern Pines, NC) - Thursday, June 14, 2018

Florene Yarborough Craft, 82, of New Braunfels, Texas died Sunday, June 10, 2018, at Methodist Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

There will be a visitation at Zoeller Funeral Home, 615 Landa St., New Braunfels, Texas, Wednesday June 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Oakwood Baptist Church, 2154 Loop 337, New Braunfels, Texas, Thursday, June 21, at 11 a.m. Burial service will follow at Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in San Antonio at 1:15 p.m. Following the burial service, there will be a reception at Oakwood Baptist Church at 4 p.m.

Florene was born in Raeford to the late Loney William and Viola Wright Yarborough and moved to Pinehurst at a very early age, where she lived and attended school, graduating from Pinehurst High School after 12 years without missing a day. Later that year she married Robert E Craft on Nov. 21, 1954.

True to her name, Florene means "Flowering in bloom." She lived, by one of the greatest Biblical principles: Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friend." John 15:13.

In addition to her parents, Florene was preceded in death by her brother, William H. (Buddy) Yarborough, formerly of Maxton, and brother-in-law, Tommy Prickett.

She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Robert E Craft; children, David Jefferson Craft and wife Maggie, of Carthage, Robert W. "Bobby" and wife, Molly Craft, of New Braunfels, Texas, Cynthia Lynn "Cindy" Craft, of New Braunfels, Texas; sisters, Jean Yarborough Prickett, of Carthage, Barbara Cortez Southers and husband, Richard Southers, of San Antonio, Texas; grandchildren Nicole Craft, Danielle and husband, Cody Bass, of New Braunfels, Texas, Katherine "Katy" Craft, of Kentucky; great-grandchildren, Emmalee Wetz, Cooper Bass and Jasper Dyal, all of New Braunfels, Texas.

She will be truly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Florene, your work here on earth was well done. May you rest in peace now in the loving arms of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pilot, The (Southern Pines, NC) - Thursday, June 14, 2018

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Pilot, The () , obit for Florene Y. Craft, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/16C91C56208C36E0-16C91C56208C36E0)

https://www.pinesfunerals.com/notices/Florene-Craft

Methodist Medical Center Hospital

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: White
• Occupation: Farmers, except horticultural
• Residence: 1920, Antioch, Hoke, North Carolina, USA; Age: 7; Age: 7 4/12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1935, Rural, Hoke, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Pinehurst, Moore, North Carolina, USA; Age: 27; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1997, Pinehurst, Moore, North Carolina, USA; Marital Status: Married

Notes:

Died:
Age: 84 Years

Loney + Frances Viola Wright. Frances was born on 19 May 1912 in North Carolina, USA; died on 4 Feb 2008 in Aberdeen, Moore, North Carolina, USA; was buried on 8 Feb 2008 in Raeford Cemetery, Raeford, Hoke, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: White
• Name: Viola Yarborough
• Residence: 1935, Rural, Hoke, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Pinehurst, Moore, North Carolina, USA; Age: 27; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Died:
Viola Wright Yarborough

PINEHURST - Viola Wright Yarborough, 95, of Linden Road died Monday (2/4/08) at the home of her daughter, Jean Y. Prickett, in
Carthage.

A native of Raeford, she was a daughter of the late Pleas H. and Frances Caroline Wright.

She was also preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Loney W. Yarborough; sisters Willie Norcross and Carrie and Florene Wright; brothers Hall, P.H., Pierce and Bruce Wright.

She is survived by daughters Florene Y. Craft and husband Bobby of New Braunfels, Texas, Barbara Cortez Southers and husband Richard of San Antonio, Texas, and Jean Y. Prickett and husband Tommy of Carthage; a son William "Buddy" Yarborough and wife Sonja of Maxton; seven grandchildren; two stepgranddaughters; one stepgrandson; nine greatgrandchildren; four stepgreat- grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Fry and Prickett Funeral Home of Carthage and other times at the home of Jean and Tommy Prickett, 436 Niagara Carthage Road, Carthage.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at the Carthage United Methodist Church with the Rev. Chuck Plowman and the Rev. William Maness Jr. officiating.

Burial will follow in the Raeford Cemetery in Raeford.

Condolences may be made at www.fryandprickett. com.

Memorials may be made to First Health Hospice and Palliative Care, 150 Applecross Road, Pinehurst, N.C. 28374 or to the church of choice.

Sanford Herald, The (NC) - Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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"Sanford Herald, The", North Carolina, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/1276E12351528260-1276E12351528260 : accessed 24 August 2016)
Viola Wright Yarborough

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: White
• Residence: 1900, Lumber Bridge, Robeson, North Carolina, USA; Age: 27; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1910, Lumber Bridge, Robeson, North Carolina, USA; Age: 40; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1920, Antioch, Hoke, North Carolina, USA; Age: 53; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1944, Raeford, Hoke, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Died:
Age: 66

James married Amanda Wilkes on 2 May 1894 in Lumber Bridge, Robeson, North Carolina, USA. Amanda (daughter of John A Wilkes and Sarah M Gilchrist) was born on 15 Feb 1879 in Robeson, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 Feb 1914 in Robeson, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Antioch Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Antioch, Hoke, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: White
• Name: Amanda L Yarborough
• Name: Mandie Yarborough
• Residence: 1900, Lumber Bridge, Robeson, North Carolina, USA; Age: 24; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1910, Lumber Bridge, Robeson, North Carolina, USA; Age: 29; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Birth:
birth date is on headstone but I do not see her on 1880 federal census with her parents