Doris Jean Alford Long, 78, of Hamlet, died Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in the Colonial Chapel of Carter Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Richmond County Memorial Park.
The family will see friends from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28 at the funeral home and other times at the home.
Long was born March 16, 1934, in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Aubrey James and Alice Glenn Watson Alford. She was a graduate of Rohanen High School, a member of East Rockingham Free Will Baptist Church and had retired from Robert DeMay Industries.
Surviving are her husband, George Long of the home; daughter, Joyce Player of Hubert; brother, Donald Alford of Columbia; two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Condolences may be made online at www.carterfuneral.net.






