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Cit yV iewN C.com | 19 Free indoor camera with new or upgraded service to video/ interactive monitoring with a two year agreement. #1 IN CUSTOMER SERVICE CHECK OUT OUR GOOGLE REVIEWS! from all over who came to Fayetteville to take part in productions at the Cape Fear Regional eatre just up the street. Larry was a longtime member of the CFRT board of directors, and the Priests opened their home to many of the actors, Dirk Lombard among them, who played the lead role in the CFRT production of "e Music Man." "Some of them still call once or twice a week," Sue Priest says. e Priests hosted parties, including one for the Kentucky Derby. For that one, Sue invited her friends to wear decorated hats. When some of them insisted they did not have any hats, she offered some advice: "Go to Rose's," she said, referring to the discount department store. Memories even abound in the vintage patio furniture on the porch. A cushioned wicker sofa, with a matching rocking chair and armchair, originally belonged to her paternal grandfather, B.A. McKimmon. Sue had the pieces painted white years ago. "It's a hundred years old," she said. "I remember it being in my grandparents' living room out on the farm." Sue and Larry, who had been Hope Mills High School classmates, were married 60 years before he died in 2016 from the effects of Parkinson's disease. eir 60th anniversary celebration at Highland Presbyterian Church included a full-course meal, Broadway actors, family and friends, and musicians. ese days, caregiver Dennis Hutchinson sees to it that the weeds that pop up in the garden are pulled, and the flowers are watered. "It's very peaceful and quiet out here," he said. And now the garden also includes an engraved stone proclaiming it to be the "Larry Priest Memorial Garden." A fitting name, indeed. Sign up for the CityView Newsletter

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