John passed away on April 9, 2008, of a brain tumor.  The following obituary is from The Courier-Times - April 12, 2008.

John M. Garrard

The funeral for John Manning Garrard, 56 of 252 Winding Trail Dr., who died Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at his home, will be conducted at 11 a.m. today, April 12, in Long Memorial United Methodist Church by the Rev. T.R. Miller. Burial with military rites will be in the Mt. Lebanon Primitive Baptist Church cemetery in Durham.

Mr. Garrard was the son of Cornelia Anderson Garrard of Rougemont, who survives, and the late Walter Edward Garrard.

A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, he was retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service.

He was employed as a commercial pilot with ATA.

He attended Long Memorial United Methodist Church where he sang in the choir and was very active with the Long Memorial United Methodist Boy Scout Troop 249.

Surviving in addition to his mother are his wife Ann Cole Garrard; two children, Elizabeth C. Garrard and John W. Garrard, both of the home; a brother, Walter Edward Garrard Jr. of Elizabeth, Colo.; three sisters, Rebecca G. Smith of Dixon, Tenn., his twin sister, Sarah G. Holmberg of Ridgeway, S.C., and Ginger G. Nelson of Louisburg, W. Va.

Memorials may be made to the Long Memorial UMC Endowment Fund, P.O. Box 310, Roxboro, NC 27573, to The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, DUMC Box 3624, Durham, NC 27710 or to Home Health & Hospice of Person County, 355A S. Madison Blvd., Roxboro, NC 27573.

Arrangements are by Brooks & White Funeral Home.

Condolences may be sent to www.brooksandwhite.com.