David Warren Raynor, 81, passed away on July 14, 2021 in Charlottesville, VA . David was born to Russell Warren Raynor and Margaret L Collier Raynor.
He is survived by his wife Mary Corbin Raynor; daughters Debra Shifflett and Pamela Wilcox; grandchildren Jessica, Darrick and Steven Weaver; and one great grandson. He is also survived by sisters Lucille Smith, Dorothy Taylor, Helen Shumaker and brother Albert Raynor.
He was preceded in death his parents, his brothers James Raynor and Richard Raynor and sisters Minnie Pearl Raynor and Ester Beahm.
Funeral arrangement are being handled by Preddy Funeral Home of Orange, VA.
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Dianna Reamer was born on 8 September, 1804 at New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia. Her parents were Daniel Reamer (1776-1860) and Mary Polly Kauffman Reamer (1780-1860).
On Oct. 10, 1820, Dianna married Daniel Shomo (1792-1852) in New Market, Virginia, USA. This couple had 11 children: William Henry Shomo (1822-1908), Serena Shomo (1824-1880), Rebecca Shomo (1828-1906), John Madison Shomo (1828-1889), Daniel Joseph Shomo (1830-1898), Maria Catherine Shomo (1832-1897), James Crawford Shomo (1834-1915), Amelia Elizabeth Shomo (1836-1912), Esiciah Washington Shomo (1839-1841), Jacob L. Shomo (1843-1864) and Mary Ann Shomo (1845-1925).
Daniel Shomo died in 1852. On July 25, 1858. Dianna Reamer Shomo married John Wilmoth in Barbour County, WV.
From New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia to Barbour County, WV, living many years in Barbour County, Dianna Reamer Shomo Wilmoth died in Barbour County, WV on 29 March 1882.
Daniel Shomo died May 23, 1852. He was born on 25 Nov. 1792 at Berks County in Pennsylvania. His parents were Anthony Shomo (1756-1812) and Elizabeth Rebecca Obold Shomo (1767-1842). He was married to Dianna Reamer Shomo (Wilmoth). Their children were Elone William H Shomo, Celena Shomo Marple, John Madison Shomo, James Crawford Shomo, Daniel Joseph Shomo, Amelia Elizabeth Shomo Corley, and Mary A Shomo Stalnaker. Daniel Shomo served in the U.S. War of 1812. He was 20 years old at the time. Name: Daniel Shomo: Company: 4 REGIMENT VIRGINIA MILITIA. Rank - Induction: PRIVATE Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE Roll Box: 188 Roll Exct: 602 Burial is at Knights of Pythias Cemetery in Barbour Co, West Virginia.
Widow of John W. Gaines died at her daughter Mrs. Harry Zeigler at 1345 Fifth Ave East Juniata Last Evening. She was born in 1849 to Elone William H. Shomo and Frances J. Louderback Shomo in Page County VA. She has been ill for several years and was bedfast the last month. For the past twenty five years she lived in Altoona, PA. Surviving are four sons and Four daughters John W. Gaines ,Mrs. George W. Miller, Mrs. William Miner, Mrs. Harry Zeigler, Thomas M. Gaines, Charles E. Gaines, and Robert L. Gaines All of this city. Mrs. W.W.R. Beahm of Oak Park Va. Three sisters Lafayette Breedlove of Va. Mrs. Ellen Price of Ebensburg, and Mrs. Charles Alger of Page County Va. Mrs. Gaines was a member of the Broad Ave. Methodist Church.
Funeral services will be 11:30 am Tuesday at Wilkinson Funeral Home Chapel officiated by Rev. Randy Wall . Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 10 to 11:30 am at Wilkinson Funeral Home.
Terri was born in Cabarrus County on February 14, 1948. She was the daughter of the late Nevin Wayne and the late Betty Lee Furr and stepdaughter of the late Darrell Cranford. She was a graduate of Winecoff High School(class of 1966) and Evans Business College. In 1965, Terri went on a date to the Concord-Kannapolis bell game, aka “The Mud Bowl.” From that day on Terri was attached to her date, Leonard, and a was a loyal Concord High School Spider fan. She also liked the Carolina Panthers and watching sports. She enjoyed eating at the Stag ‘n Doe regularly as well as breakfast at Troutman’s Barbecue. She loved the beach and her Winecoff High School classmates. She had a passion for animals. She was one of the founding members of the Cabarrus Humane Society. Above all else, Terri loved her husband, her children, and her beloved grandchildren.
Mrs. Frye is survived by her husband of over 50 years, Leonard L. Frye; sons, Brian Frye and wife, Cissy, Jason Frye and wife, Jennifer; grandchildren, Jesse, Joanna, Jaxon, Jaleigh, and Jessa ; great grandson, Turner; and sister Autumn Furr.
Memorials may be made to Humane Society of Concord and Greater Cabarrus County, 2010 Wilshire Ct., Concord NC 28025, or to her church, Ann Street UMC, 335 Ann St. NW, Concord NC 28025 or to Cabarrus Boys and Girls Club, PO Box 1405, Concord NC 28026
PROVERBS 31:
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"Helen Boehm, a self-made businesswoman known as the Princess of Porcelain for her company’s elaborate sculptures, which have graced the coffee tables of royalty and heads of state for six decades, died on Monday at her home in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 89.
Mrs. Boehm had been ill with cancer and Parkinson’s disease for some time, said Sharon Lee Parker, the current president and chief executive of Boehm Porcelain, the Trenton-based company Mrs. Boehm helped found and indefatigably promoted.
With her husband, Edward, Mrs. Boehm (pronounced beam) founded the company, known early on as E. M. Boehm Studios, in 1950. At the time, neither knew a thing about porcelain. He was a veterinary assistant trained in animal husbandry; she was an optician.
But Mr. Boehm was a gifted sculptor and Mrs. Boehm a natural pitchwoman. After all, she had once persuaded a customer named Clark Gable to buy a pair of sunglasses, and who in his line of work would not already own one?
Considered highly collectible, Boehm porcelains often depict flora and fauna and are known for their handpainted colors and lifelike detail. The current line ranges in price from $125 for a tiny lamb to $20,000 for a three-foot-high eagle. Rare vintage pieces have fetched in the neighborhood of $100,000, Ms. Parker said.
Boehm sculptures can be found in museum collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum and the Vatican. They have been owned by luminaries like Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Pope John Paul II and Sophia Loren.
In a marketing coup scored by Mrs. Boehm decades ago at the cost of 3 cents, Boehm pieces have been presented to every United States president from Eisenhower to Obama. For years they have been the de facto state gift from the White House to foreign dignitaries, as in 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon presented Mao Zedong with a pair of life-size porcelain swans.
After Mr. Boehm’s death in 1969, Mrs. Boehm continued to run the company with characteristic savvy. No sooner was someone in the headlines, it seemed, then a commemorative piece was made and bestowed on the recipient with all attendant fanfare.
For Diana, Princess of Wales, Mrs. Boehm created a porcelain copy of her wedding bouquet. After Diana’s death in 1997, she issued a limited-edition white rose, sending one each to Princes William and Harry and offering the rest for sale at $350 apiece. (A pink rose honoring Diana can be purchased on the company’s Web site for $395.)
Under Mrs. Boehm’s stewardship, Boehm grew into a multimillion-dollar business with studios in Trenton and Malvern, England. Boehm porcelain was sold in high-end stores like Bonwit Teller, and the company had its own showrooms in New York and other cities.
In consequence, Mrs. Boehm kept (simultaneously) a Rolls-Royce, a Mercedes and a Duesenberg; maintained a constellation of homes in the United States and abroad; owned a prizewinning polo team; and cheerfully dripped Harry Winston.
All this Mrs. Boehm, the daughter of working-class Italian immigrants, built from a business begun in a cellar with a $1,000 loan.
Elena Francesca Stephanie Franzolin was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 26, 1920, and grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood there. Her father, a cabinetmaker, died when she was 13, and Helen, as she was known, worked as a dressmaker to help support the family. As a young woman, she became an optician.
In 1944, she married Edward Marshall Boehm. An experienced livestock breeder, he made realistic clay sculptures of animals as a pastime. Mrs. Boehm encouraged him to pursue his art professionally, and eventually, with a loan from one of her eyeglass clients, they started a porcelain studio in a Trenton basement.
She often said that Mr. Boehm cared nothing for business. So she took matters into her own hands and was soon on the telephone to the Met, which purchased a Hereford bull and a Percheron stallion. In the mid-1950s she wrote to the first lady, Mamie Eisenhower.
Before long, a reply came from the White House inviting her to lunch. (The letter had 3 cents postage due, which Mrs. Boehm promptly paid.) She arrived in Washington with bull in hand, the first in a long line of presidential Boehms. And thus, president by president and prince by prince, Boehm bloomed.
Mrs. Boehm sold the company in 2003. When, several owners later, Ms. Parker took over last year, it was in brittle shape, its staff of more than 400 reduced to four. Today, Boehm pieces can be purchased on the company’s Web site and through several dozen authorized retailers.
Mrs. Boehm leaves no immediate survivors. She was the author of a memoir, “With a Little Luck: An American Odyssey” (Rawson, 1985, with Nancy Dunnan), with a foreword by Letitia Baldrige.
Not all of Mrs. Boehm’s marketing schemes worked out happily, at least not at first. There was the time, in 1958, that she brought a flock of exotic birds — real ones — to Tiffany’s in New York to promote her company’s bird figurines. The birds slipped out of their cage and were pursued through the store, gingerly, by employees brandishing small blue boxes. Some fled into Gotham’s wild blue yonder and were never seen again.
The story made the papers, and Mrs. Boehm appeared on television for days afterward."
Helen Franzolin (Beahm) was born in New York on December 26, 1920 to Peter and Frances Franzolin. She died November 15, 2010 in West Pam Beach, Florida. She is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey.
Edward Marshall Boehm was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1913. His surname is pronounced "Beam". His parents separated before he was born. His mother, Elsie Boehm, died when he was seven years old. (He was not to meet his father until he was in his twenties.) Friends enrolled him in an all boys school for orphans and the poor, known as McDonogh School, where he remained until he was 16 years old. He showed some artistic ability at an early age, but it was not until after World War II that he was drawn to the art of sculpture which would be his vocation. .He was attracted to the art of porcelain sculpture and, after visiting some porcelain factories in Trenton, New Jersey, became determined to set up his own factory. In the basement of his home, he developed a formula for an excellent porcelain and began producing sculptures. In 1944 he married Helen Franzolin (1920-2010). They later moved to Trenton, New Jersey. The union was happy but childless. They remained together until Edward Marshall Boehm died 1969. His widow died in 2010, aged 89. Helen was also his distributor, sales manager, and public relations voice, but the pervasive prejudice against American-made porcelain which existed at the time was difficult to overcome, and they struggled, their finances dwindling. Their breakthrough came in 1951, when the Curator of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased two statues for the museum's collection, thus giving an authoritative endorsement of Boehm's art. Still, it was not until 1955 that Boehm's company really began to grow. By the time of Edward's death in 1969, he had seen his porcelains placed in the permanent collections of many of the world's most important museums and galleries. Today one can view Edward's sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hermitage, the Smithsonian, and the Tokyo National Museum. Years after his death, in 1992, a wing in the Vatican Museum of Art in Rome was named in memory of Edward Boehm; he was the first American to receive that honor.
Edward Marshall Boehm is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Trenton, NJ.
Peggie Marie Plott, 84 years of age, of Concord, passed away Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at First Assembly Living Center in Concord.
She was born December 14, 1931 in Concord, NC to the late Martin Luther Earley and the late Willene Elizabeth Earley. She was also preceded in death by husband, Billy Ray Plott, grandson, Dustin Heath Witherspoon. She worked as an office manager for the City of Charlotte before retiring in 1994.
Survivors include son, Sherrill Darwin (Vicki) Plott of Concord, NC; daughter, Judy Plott Witherspoon of Concord, NC; granddaughter, Lindsey (Travis) Echerd of Concord, NC; grandson, Corey (Nicole) Plott of Concord, NC; granddaughter, Cassie Patrice Witherspoon of Lexington, NC; great-grandsons, Colton William Echerd, Knox Tyler Echerd, Richard Noah Raynor, and Blake Riley Witherspoon; nieces, Ann Payne, Patricia Bigham, & Debbie Plott
A graveside funeral service will be held on Monday at 11:00 AM in Charlotte Memorial Gardens at 7632 Hood Rd, Charlotte NC, officiated by Rev. Mike Toney. The burial will follow there.
Hartsell Funeral Home of Concord is serving the Plott family.
Online condolences may be made at www.hartsellfh.com - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charlotte/obituary.aspx?n=peggie-marie-plott&pid=180946913&#sthash.cqZTOGF6.lrq6dz3h.dpuf
"Bill" Charles Ross Nicholson, 80, of Brightwood, VA, passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at his residence. Born May 26, 1936, in Madison County, VA, Bill was the son of the late Walter Rector Nicholson and Sally Marie Dodson Nicholson. Bill was also preceded in death by a son, Donald Craig Nicholson; and a sister, Marie Pearl Berry. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Gladys Marie Beahm Nicholson of Brightwood; one son, Dennis C. Nicholson and wife, Savilla of Brightwood; one daughter, Wendy D. Boone and husband, Martin of Madison; and four grandchildren, Derek Craig Nicholson, Sarah Nicole Nicholson, Rachel Marie Boone, and Kaylan Michelle Boone. He was a member of Thoroughfare Bible Church. The family will receive friends on Friday June 24, 2016 from 11 a.m. until 12 p.m. at the Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison, VA. The funeral service will follow at 12 p.m. Friday, June 24, 2016, also at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison. Interment at Thoroughfare Bible Church Cemetery. Perry Utz and Ethan Stanley officiating.
Contributions may be made in Mr Nicholson's memory to Thoroughfare Bible Church 3823 Thoroughfare Rd. Leon, VA 22725.
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