Mary Mercer Rouse Baxley, age 89, of Fayetteville, formerly of Lumberton, passed away on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. She was born in Robeson County on March 28, 1923 to the late Nash Mercer and the late Mary Young Mercer. She is survived by her daughter, Patricia R. Trujillo of Fayetteville, NC; three brothers, Charles Mercer, Sr. of Durham, NC, Robert Mercer of St. Augustine, FL and Eugene Mercer of Lumberton, NC; one sister, Ruth Musselwhite of Lumberton, NC; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.