Alice Faye

GRIFTON — Alice Faye Brown Jones, 68, of 6876 Skeeter Pond Road, died Friday Feb. 3, 2012 at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 at Mills Funeral Home with Dr. W. J. Best officiating. Interment will follow...  

Alice Faye is exquisitely beautiful as singing star LILLIAN RUSSELL in a film which has its pleasures but could have been improved considerably.It's the Gay '90s, and Helen Leonard (Faye), who has wanted to be a singing star from an early age, is discovered by theatrical impresario Tony Pastor (Leo Carrillo). Renamed Lillian Russell, she's an overnight sensation, inspiring wealthy men like Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold) to anonymously send...  

and was the daughter of Wright Barber and Ellis Wade Barber, both deceased.  She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jim Purinton; one son, Byron Gillespie; four brothers, Glendale Adams, Eugene Sanders, Wallace W. Barber Sr. and James H.  

News Death Notice PARROTT, Alice "Faye" age 75, of Riverside, passed away Saturday, January 7, 2012. She was born November 6, 1936 in Walkertown, .....