Vance County, NC - Obituary of Maria Faulkner, 2009 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by History & Genealogy of Vance Co, NC - http://home.comcast.net/~teylu/ncvance/ Contributor's note: Maria Faulkner, a daughter of the late Howard Vernard Faulkner Sr. and Bessie E. Faulkner, was well-known and greatly appreciated for her genealogical research, particularly of the many Faulkner lines of Vance, Warren, Franklin and surrounding counties. Additionally, she published an inventory of the New Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in which she is was laid to rest. Maria's kindness and expertise are sorely missed by the genealogical community as well as by her personal friends and family members. ------- Obituary published Thursday 06 August 2009 in the Durham (NC) Herald-Sun HENDERSON - Maria Parham Faulkner, age 83, a resident of 921 Faulkner Town Road, died Monday, August 3, 2009, in Cherokee, N.C. Miss Faulkner was a retired nurse anesthetist in Greensboro where she worked for four years and at Newman Hospital in Newman, Ga. for 38 years. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Newman, Ga., and was a member of New Sandy Creek Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at New Sandy Creek Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. She is survived by one brother, Jerry A. Faulkner. Memorials may be made to the New Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 1699 Weldon's Mill Road, Henderson, N.C. 27537. Arrangements are by J.M. White Funeral Home.