Obituaries
Catherine Brooks Adcock
Feb 1, 2016
Oxford: Catherine Brooks Adcock, 82, of Oxford passed away Monday February 1, 2016. She was a native of Granville County, the daughter of the late Alvis B. Brooks and Alice Clark Connell. Catherine was a lifelong member of Hester Baptist Church and a homemaker. Surviving are her husband of 65 years Charles N. Adcock and her daughter Patricia Adcock Day,...
Elizabeth Tornquist
Jan 30, 2016
DURHAM: Elizabeth Muse Tornquist passed away unexpectedly January 30, 2016. Elizabeth Muse was born in Wilson, NC on January 14, 1933 while her father was on the tobacco market. She grew up in Williamston with her large family. In 1950, Elizabeth came to Duke on an AB Duke scholarship. She graduated in the class of 1954. After several years of...
Wiley Poole Clark
Jan 29, 2016
DURHAM-Wiley Poole Clark, age 89, died Friday, January 29, 2016 at the Hock Pavilion. He was a native and life-long resident of Durham. He was born August 6, 1926 to the late Leonadas Louis Clark and Florence Poole Clark. Wiley served in the U.S. Navy during WWII from 1944-1946, stationed ineew Hebrides and in Guam. After the war he worked...
Donald "Dondon" Charles Richards
Jan 28, 2016
Donald ???Dondon??? Charles Richards, age 61, died Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Duke Medical Center. He was born to the late John F. and Alice Marie Robertson Richards in Dallas, TX on June 30, 1954. Don proudly served his country for 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. After retirement from the military he worked as a computer programmer for...
Daniel Whitehead
Jan 23, 2016
DURHAM-Daniel Whitehead, Jr. of Durham, NC, died unexpectedly at home on Thursday, January 23, 2016. He was 73. Dan was born August 8, 1942, to Daniel Whitehead, Sr. and his wife, Lenee Ridings. He grew up near Pittsburgh, PA, where he lived until moving to the Orlando Florida area in 1978 and to Durham, NC in 1997. He is survived...
Mary Whitfield Canada
Jan 23, 2016
Mary Whitfield Canada, retired reference librarian, died January 23, 2016 at Brookdale Assisted Living in Durham, NC. She was born June 13, 1919 in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of the late Waverly Thomas Canada and his wife, the former Ruth Bradshaw Smith. Ms. Canada grew up in Richmond but had lived in Durham for many years. Mrs. Canada was a...
Betty Green Woodlief
Jan 20, 2016
Betty Green Woodlief, age 83, died Wednesday, January 20, 2016. She was born on June 8, 1932 to the late Augustus and Minee Green. Survivors include two sons, Ronald Woodlief, Norman Woodlief and wife, Joan; two daughters, Brenda Sheetz and husband, Robert, and Judy Warren; nee grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren. The Woodlief family will receive friends at the Tabernacle of Life...
Lillian Julian
Jan 18, 2016
Lillian Julian, age 88, died peacefully at Hillcrest Convalescent Center in Durham, NC on Monday, January 18, 2016. Lillian was born in Youngstown, OH on April 2, 1927 to the late George and Veronica Stanislaw Turek. She was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church in northern Durham. In October 2014, Lillian was honeed by the Catholic Daughters of the...
Virginia Frazier Tingen
Jan 17, 2016
Oxford: Virginia Frazier Tingen (90) went to be with the Lord on Sunday, January17, 2016 at Brantwood Nursing Home surrounded by her family. Virginia was a native of Granville County, born to Conley Thomas aneessie Blackwell Frazier. She was the wife of the late Herman T. Tingen, Sr. Surviving are her daughters Sylvia T. Phillips of South Boston, VA, Priscilla...
William G. Anlyan, M.D.
Jan 17, 2016
William G. Anlyan, M.D., chancellor and professor of Duke Uneersity and trustee of the Duke Endowment, died at the age of 90 on January 17, 2016. Dr. Anlyan was one of Duke???s most visionary leaders over his four decades and was instrumental in achieving many of the uneersity and its health enterprise???s most important milestones. During Anlyan???s tenee as medical...
Hope Campbell Sigora
Jan 14, 2016
Oxford: Hope Campbell Sigora, 48, of Oxford died Thursday, January 14, 2016. She was a native of Granville County, the daughter of Barbara C. Campbell and the late Donald A. Campbell. Hope was a graduate of J. F. Webb High School, Class of 1985; a graduate of Campbell Uneersity, Class of 1989; and a graduate of North Carolina Central Uneersity...
Del-Rae "Toby" Culbreth
Jan 13, 2016
Oxford: Del-Rae ???Toby??? Culbreth, 82, died Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Duke Medical Center. She was a native of West Virginia, the daughter of the late James H. and Tessie Walls Stone, the widow of Harold ???Pete??? Culbreth, and a retired nurse. The family will receive friends at Gentry ??? neell & Vaughan Funeral Home from 1:00PM to 2:00PM on...
Priscilla "P" Brooks
Jan 13, 2016
Oxford: Priscilla Brooks, born neember 3, 1940, died January 13, 2016. She was 75 years old. She is survived by her daughter Lisa Jones of Oxford: three sisters Vera Ellington, Barbara Poole, aneella Schmit, all of Oxford: many nieces, great nieces, nephews, and great nephews. Priscilla was preceded ineeath by her parents Coon Pierce and Bazel Pierce. Most family members...
Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Jr.
Jan 8, 2016
DURHAM- Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Jr. passed away peacefully on January 8, 2016 at his home, at the age of 92. Clarence was born in Kinston, NC oneebruary 5, 1923.?? He was the only child born to the late Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Sr. and Ruth Maybelle Bryd Wetherington. Clarence moved to Durham at the age of four.?? He attended Durham High...
Marie Lowery Dalton
Jan 7, 2016
Oxford: Marie Lowery Dalton, 72, of Oxford died Thursday January 7, 2016. She was a native of Virgilina, VA. She is the daughter of the late Jesse and Hallie Whitt Lowery and the widow of Phil Dalton. Marie was a retired cosmetologist and master gardener. She loved the outdoors and sharing her yard and garden with others. She was a...
Alice Mansfield Rankin
Jan 7, 2016
DURHAM-Alice Mansfield Rankin, age 89, passed away peacefully Thursday, January 7, 2016 at Croasdaile Retirement Village with her children by her side. A native of Durham, Alice was the daughter of the late W. Fuller and Margaret Steele Mansfield. Alice was a longtime member of Epworth Uneed Methodist Church where she sang in the choir, initiated the Care Group for...
Joan Englund
Jan 6, 2016
Joan Englund was born May 28, 1920 to Dr. Jesse H. and Mrs. Leone Webb Epperson in Durham NC. She died January 6, 2016 at the Olseneenter at The Forest at Duke. Joan was educated in Durham Public Schools aneearned a Bachelor???s Degree in English from Duke Uneersity, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. In 1945...
Olive Faucette Jenkins
Jan 4, 2016
-MEBANE- Olive Faucette Jenkins, age 69, of Efland, NC, passed away peacefully on January 4, 2016 at the Presbyterian Home of Hawfields ineebane, NC. She was born in Durham, NC in 1946 to the late Jay Edwin and Olive Faucette Jenkins. Olive grew up in Durham, graduating from Durham High School in 1964 and from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC...
Frank K. Borden, Sr.
Jan 4, 2016
Mr. Frank Kennon Borden, Sr. died peacefully at his home in Hope Valley, Durham on Monday, January 4, 2016. Born on April 12, 1927 in Wilson, NC, he was the oldest son of the late Margaret Gold Borden and Frank Kennon Borden. After graduating from Goldsboro High School in 1944, he served in the Navy at the end of World...
Mackenee Anastasia Ruston
Jan 4, 2016
Mackenee Anastasia Ruston ???Kenee???, age 17, beloved daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, teammate and friend, passed away suddenly on January 4, 2016 near Alpine, WY. Born in Chapel Hill, NC on January 5, 1998, Kenee was a senior at East Chapel Hill High School. She most recently fulfilled her dream of earning her private pilot???s license. On the cusp of...
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