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La Grange-Paulette Lancaster Burroughs, 76, peacefully departed this life on Sunday, December 14, 2025. A service of love and remembrance will be held Thursday, December 18, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. at Rouse Funeral Home, with Pastor Tom Mellay officiating. The family will receive friends in the hour prior to the service. Committal will follow at Fairview Cemetery.
Burroughs has won the Lenoir County Demolition Derby a record 17 times, four of which were without the use of a vehicle.
For the past 18 months, Burroughs has been a correspondent for Neuse News, although to date the only assignment she's completed was her six-part series on Skittles in December of 2018.
Jon Dawson catches you up on one of Lenoir County’s Seven Wonders — Paulette Burroughs.
“I hit seven jackpots in a row on a slot machine last Saturday night,” Burroughs told. “Maybe it was luck; maybe it was the screwdriver I jammed into the back of the machine; either way, I walked out of that casino with $87,000.”
