ZEBULON – Brandon Cole Rife, 17, died Thursday morning, Nov. 1, 2012.  The family will receive friends 10:30-11:50 a.m. Monday at Strickland Funeral Home. Service will follow at 12 p.m. in the chapel. Burial will follow in Bunn Memorial Gardens.

Surviving: father and stepmother, Vernon and Sheila Rife of Louisburg; mother, Tracy Rife (fiancé, Adam Czyz); brothers, Tyler Rife and Chris Page; paternal grandparents, Richard and Pauline Rife, all of Zebulon; paternal great-grandmother, Eula Morgan of Wendell.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Tabernacle Church, 394 Ferrells Bridge Rd., Louisburg, NC 27549.

Arrangements are by Strickland Funeral Home & Crematory, Louisburg, www.stricklandfuneralhome.net.