Calendar

*Monday Night Bingo at The Factory is hosted by the Wake Forest Kiwanis Club in the Mill Room from 7 to 9:30 p.m. every Monday night. All profits support the club’s projects for children. Visit www.wakeforestbingo.com for more information. *Storytelling Pajama Night featuring Rags to Riches Theatre will be held Friday, Dec. 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. It is part of the Wake Forest Renaissance Center’s Arts for All free community performance series supported by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. *A Christmas for All will be presented by Restoration Church of Wake Forest Thursday, Dec. 22, at 7 p.m. in Heritage Middle School on Rogers Road. It is free and you can order tickets at htpp://restorationrdu.com. There will be free child care. *The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church on Friendship Chapel Road

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Obituaries

Florence Hope Gorgol Raleigh Florence H. Gorgol, 89, passed away on December 16, 2016. She was born on March 19, 1927 in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Ernest Archibald and Florence Lloyd. The family will hold a private memorial service at a later date. Mrs. Gorgol is survived by her sons, Timothy Martin and wife, Terry, and Lloyd Martin and wife, Oliv; and two grandchildren; Philip Martin and Tambra Campeau. A service of Bright Funeral Home, 405 South Main Street, Wake Forest, NC, 27587. (919-556-5811) www.brightfunerals.com   Jerry Lanham Rolesville Jerry Lanham, 75, passed away on Monday, December 12, 2016, at Wake Med in Raleigh. He was born in Kanawha County, West Virginia, the son of the late Rachel and Harless Lanham. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Mabel Ballard, Charles Lanham, Janet King, Herbert Lanham and Connie Smithson. Mr. Lanham graduated from Rio Grande High School

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