Obituaries

Deborah Boisclair

FRANKLIN - Deborah Faye Bishop Boisclair, 62, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. Deborah was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and the daughter of John Bishop and Helen Mary Tidwell.  She was preceded in death by sister, Sheryl Bishop.

Otis Watts

FRANKLIN - Otis Denver Watts, 81, of Franklin and Sylva, went home to be with Jesus on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Born in Macon County, he was the son of the late Glenn William and Alice Blanche Jones Watts.

Carolyn Loacano

FRANKLIN - Carolyn Jean Loacano, 56, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.  She was born July 12, 1966, in Dearborn, Michigan, to Linda Kay Chapman Allan and the late John Keith Parris. Carolyn was a homemaker and she loved her mountain home in Franklin.

Ronald Holland

FRANKLIN - Ronald Cleyborn Holland, 75, passed away on Dec. 14, 2022. Moffitt Family Funeral Care is honored to serve such a great man and his family.

Wenona Curtis

FRANKLIN - Wenona Cabe Curtis, 76, passed away Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. Bryant-Grant Funeral Home & Crematory is serving the Curtis family. 

Teresa Balcom

FRANKLIN - Teresa Norris Balcom, 59, passed away Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. Teresa was the daughter of Evelyn Holt Norris and the late LT Norris. She loved spending time with her grandkids. She was preceded in death by her father and stepdaughter, Anastasia Scheufele.

Doris Younger

FRANKLIN - Doris Lorene Webb Younger, 72, passed away Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. Bryant-Grant Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Younger family.

Clarence Wilson Jr.

FRANKLIN - Clarence Alexander Wilson Jr., 83, passed away on Dec. 4, 2022, at the Elizabeth Hospice House in Flat Rock. Born on July 5, 1939, in Midway to the late Minnie Lee Long and Clarence Alexander Wilson Sr.

Edna Smith

FRANKLIN - Edna Mae Frady Smith, 78, went home to be with Jesus on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Born in Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late William Garland and Carrie Franks Frady.

John Nichols Sr.

FRANKLIN - John Darriel Nichols, Sr., 74, passed away on Dec. 9, 2022. Moffitt Family Funeral Care is honored to serve John’s family.