Heritage Center's Contributing Patrons List
Special thanks to the Heritage Center’s Contributing Patrons of 2024-2025
DIAMOND ($1000+)
Scott and Marie Abee
Billy and Debbie Austin
Gail and Joe Austin
Dr. John M. and Shirley Booker
Camille Boone
Steve and Suzanne Cook
Allison S. Elsee
Maggie B. Holding Charitable Trust
Robert P. Holding Foundation
Johnston County Arts Council
Johnston County Visitors Bureau
Charles W. and Jenelle Green Moore, in memory of Osborne H. Owens and in honor of Rebecca S. Owens
North Carolina Humanities
Rebecca S. Owens
Patricia Allen Rogers, in memory of Nancy Raynor Anderson
Thomas Rose
Mary Stephens
PLATINUM ($500+)
Rosa and Art Andrews
Atkinson Milling Co. Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Carroll
Grover and Lou Dees
Dr. Carolyn G. Ennis
Jerry and Mary Nell Lee Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Hobbs
In memory of Brant Allen Johnson, Jr.
Van and Blair Jones
Denton and Jane Lee
James Thomas Vinson III
GOLD ($250+)
Emery and Kim Ashley
Teresa McLamb Blackmon, in memory of Willis and Ruth McLamb
W. Landis and Paula Bullock
Sharon Castleberry, in memory of Belle Allen and Margaret Maron
Charles W. Creech, in memory of Linnie Godwin Creech
Lynda D. Creech
Matt and Amy Dean
Norma Dean
Lola Stephenson Delbridge
Diana Naylor Duncan
JoAnne and Claud Dunn
Joyce and Jim Gibson
Sharon and Pascual Goicoechea
Warren Grimes
Perry and Jean Harris
David M. Huggin
Tom and Hope Humphrey
Bill and Rebecca Kalsbeek
In memory of Laura Faye Massengill
George and Gayle Mast, in memory of Ruffin Johnson, T. Yates and Pansy Dobson, and Vertie Perry
Gordon McLamb
Cliff and Joyce Mitchell
Claudia and Jack O’Hale
Phyllis E. Palmer
Ben Peterson, Jr.
Deborah Burgess Sasser
S. Vann Sauls
Smith-Bryan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Millard and Patti Stallings
Marvin Taylor, in memory of Gunilla Taylor
Lanny and Helen Thomas
Rep. Donna McDowell White, in memory of Esther Hill McDowell
Hampton and Betsy Whittington
Steve and Delle Blount Wilson, in memory of Ned and Jane Cunningham
Elaine Wooten Wood
SILVER ($100+)
Debbie Anderson
Dewitt and DeLane J. Armstrong
Michael D. Atkinson
Mike and Kaye Bailey
Jay and Belinda Baker
Rudy and Pat Baker
Bob and Bet Barber
Janice and Ken Bateman
Pam L. Baumgartner
Keith Beamon
Rayvon and Becky Johnson Best
M. Katie Blackmon
Pearl Blackmon
Sarah Ogburn Blalock
Curtis and Cindy Brookshire
Steve and Gwen Canady
Susan and Ricky Carroll
Porter and Timpla Casey
Judith B. Castleberry
Patricia Chisholm-Jones
Jack and Judy Coats, in memory of Ramona Cash
Dr. Gettys and Shirley Cohen Jr.
Lee and Alice Colbert
Judge Andy Corbett
Jane and Cornell Cox
Greg and Kelley Garris
In memory of Betty Gaster
Patricia O. Godwin
Jennie and Franklin Grimes
In honor of Warren Grimes
Cathy Rusher Gutierrez
Denise Castleberry Hall
Cecil Heavner
Thad E. Hardee, in memory of Faye and Pope Hardee
Sam and Joan Narron Hardy
Rick and Caroline Hester
John and Frankie Hobart
In memory of Ann Lee Huckenbeck
Jeff and Sherry Holt
Paul and Shirley Ingram
Dianna Popa Jicha
Beverly R. Johnson, in memory of Marshall H. Johnson
Carroll F. Johnson, in memory of Fred and Daisy Creech Johnson
Connie L. Johnson, in memory of Ruffin Johnson
Lynn Johnson
Dr. Oliver Johnson
Todd and Donna
Johnson
Bill and Joyce Jordan
Bill and Kay Kennedy
Judy S. Kennedy
Frank and Betsy Knott, in memory of Debbie Jordan Braxton
Jacqueline Lacy
Carol Lancaster, in memory of J.D. Lancaster
Janet and Ken Langston
John C. Lassiter, in memory of Mary Frances Bingham
Susan and Wingate Lassiter
David and Joyce Lee
Tom and Barbara Lee
Tony and Anita Liverman
John and Andrea Maron, in memory of Claudia Stephenson Brown and Margaret B. Maron
Betsy B. Massengill
Pam Massengill, in memory of Stanton Massengill
Tom Medlin, in memory of Lu Long and Tommy Medlin
Richard and Missy Nordan
Cheryl L. Oliver
Reggie and Dianne Parker
Tom and Ann Parrish
Jane T. Patterson
Dorothy Jean Johnson-Popa
David and Betty Pope
Chap and Ann Ragland
Lynn and William Ragsdale
Michael A. and Carolyn O. Renfrow
Ingrid Shelia and Gerald T. Rowland
Velvaline and Nathaniel L. Sanders Jr.
Silas Sauls and Rick Herndon
John and Margaret Scovil
Richard Self and Becky Veazey
Jesse and Kathy Sellers
Jean Simmons
Ray and Dr. Peggy Smith
Talmadge R. and Rochelle D. Snead
Vann and Amy Stancil
Elinor W. Starling
Rebecca S. Starling
In memory of David Stephens
Mary Stephens
Danny and Carolyn Stephenson
Grady O. Stephenson, Jr.
E. Wayne and Julie W. Stewart
Dana and Sandra Strickland
Bill and Kathy Teague
Jack and Janie Temple
Harold and Carolyn Tharrington
Ronny Creasy and Windy Thompson
Tommy and Ava Thompson
Tucker U. Twisdale
Gary R. and Glenda M. Underwood
Haywood and Vanessa Watson
Tresa Wood Wheeler
Janice C. White
Mary Lillie and Charles Wilkins
Janet Denning Wilson
Eddie and Brenda Wood
Gary R. and Glenda M. Underwood
Jim and Lanie Woodard
Richard V. Woodard
Steve and Valerie Woodard
Mabel Yelvington
Ben and Kellie Youngblood
BRONZE ($50+)
Ernie and Margo Allsbrook
American Discount Building Supplies
Monique Austin
Sue Cannady Barefoot
Lettie Best
Adam Caldwell
James Carter
Debbie Armstrong Cobb
Eleanor N. Creech
Chad, April and Ava Culver
Neal and Lorine Davis
Friends of Tobacco Farm Life Museum
Flora H. Grantham
Jennifer Vileigh Narron-Hardy
Linda Shehdan Hester
Jerry L. Higgins
Jim Ingram
Frances Aycock Kiker
Maxine M. McFadyen
Frances D. Norris
Craig Olive
Charlie Parrish
Phyllis Parrish
Rhonda Johnson Ray
John and Dinah Reece, in honor of Julia Allen McCullers
David and Barbara Ryals Taylor
Gerald and Glenda Toler
Billy and Clara Wellons
Carolyn Williams
Muriel Wilson
Bruce and Ann Woodard
Page last updated: February 17, 2026