Royce Carroway Obituary
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Royce worked for the North Carolina Department of Transportation for 33 years before retiring. He was also a proud member of the Yancey County Bear Hunters Association.
Left to cherish his loving memory is his wife, Ruth Carroway, of the home; son, Charlie Carroway and wife, Annette, of Johnson City, TN; daughter, Pamela C. Allen of Burnsville, NC; step-daughter, Denise Young and husband, Chris, of Raleigh, NC; brother, Robert Dennis Carroway and wife, Linda, of Burnsville, NC; grandchildren: Eden Carroway, Jenny Carroway Ballew (Dustin), Juliana Allen Fox (Dawson), and Finley Allen; step-grandchildren: Madison Silver (Zack), John Claude Charleton, Camryn Young, Jonathan Young, and Brandon Young; and one great grandchild, Audrey Ballew.
Funeral Services will be held Friday, October 21st, 2022 in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home at 7 p.m. The family will receive friends and loved ones two hours prior to service time. Reverends Chuck Randolph and Blaine Whitson will officiate. Interment will follow on Saturday, October 22nd, in the Carroway Cemetery on South Toe at 11 a.m.
Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home is respectfully serving the Carroway family.
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rev.HOLT WHITSON
October 20, 2022
This a very GREAT man who stood above others. He will be missed.
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