Funeral services are Sunday for the longtime Mulberry-Fairplains firefighter killed yesterday in a tree-trimming accident. Hubert Haynes was struck by a limb that bounced after it hit the ground. Haynes who was 72, w as a 41-year member of the Mulberry-Fairplains Fire Department. Chief Rick Gambill says he died soon after the accident. Haynes had been holding a ladder while another person trimmed a tree at the home of Haynes’ daughter, off Ruritan Park Road.

Funeral services will be held at 2pm, Sunday at Friendship Church of the Brethren with the Rev. Gary Benesh officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 1:30. Burial with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1142 will be in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home from 6:00 until 8:00 Saturday night.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mulberry-Fairplains Fireman Uniform Fund, PO Box 56, North Wilkesboro. Though Haynes’ death wasn’t related to the fire-department business, firefighters yesterday lowered the flag to half-staff and draped the sign in black. Haynes was one of the longest-serving members of the department, which is celebrating its 50th year of service.

A Wilkes man reports someone came into his home and stole all his medication while he was in town for a few hours. Paul Allison left home about 10 Wednesday morning, and when he got home about 1:30 in the afternoon, he saw all the pill bottles missing. There were some prescription painkillers in the list of stolen meds, but there were also a number of drugs, such as cholesterol pills, that won’t fetch much on the street. No suspects have been identified in the case.