Obituaries
James C. Boone
Apr 6, 2013
Mr. James C. Boone, 88, of Pittsboro, NC died Saturday, April 6, 2013 at his home. James was born in Chatham County oneebruary 26, 1925 to the late Jarvis and Mozelle Boone. He served his country in WWII as a B-29 pilot, in the Pacific and was awarded a Bronze Star and an Air Medal. James spent his remaining working...
William Henry Day
Apr 5, 2013
OXFORD: William Henry "Bill" Day died April 5, 2013. Mr. Day was born in Oxford, N.C. on Ivey Day Road. He was the son of the late Ivey Wilson and Anee Mae Hart Day. He was a member of Oxford Methodist Church. Mr. Day also was a member of the Masons and served for many years. After serving in the...
Mary Jane Auld Linker
Apr 4, 2013
Mary Jane Auld Linker, 91, died Thursday, April 4, 2013. She has been a resident of the Carol Woods Retirement Community since 1996. She was born in Chester, SC and grew up in Greenville, SC. She was the daughter of the late George DeWitt Auld and Lillian McDill Auld of Greenville, SC. She was a 1939 graduate from Greenville SC...
Calvin Lucian Ward
Apr 2, 2013
Calvin Lucian Ward, 85, Duke Uneersity Professor of Zoology, died April 2, 2013, at Hillcrest Convalescent Center. Calvin was born in Yancey, Texas, and was one of six children. He is predeceased by his parents, Lucian Simeon and Artie Berry Ward; his sister, Evadna Chalmers; and three brothers, Don, Gordon, and Ross Ward. Calvin had many fond memories of growing...
Mary Lucille Morris Farrell
Apr 1, 2013
Mrs. Mary Lucille Morris Farrell, 86, of Hanks Chapel Road, Pittsboro, died April 1, 2013 at Cambridge Hills in Pittsboro. Mrs. Farrell was born in Rockingham on April 15, 1926, a daughter of James Michael Morris and Maude Poplin Morris. She retired from Chatham Mills after 40 plus years of service. Mrs. Farrell was a long time member of Hanks...
Muriel Depowel Burgun
Apr 1, 2013
Muriel DePowel Burgun, 88, passed away peacefully at her home on April 1, 2013, in Pittsboro, NC. She was born oneecember 13, 1924 ineewark, NJ. She graduated from Marymont College ineerrytown, NY. She was a librarian at Pleasantville Public Library in Pleasantville, NY. She was also a docent at Washington Irving's house, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, in Irvington, NY. Muriel was...
Talton Thomas Hughes
Mar 31, 2013
OXFORD: Talton Thomas "T" Hughes, died March 31, 2013 in Granville House in Oxford. He was born on August 18, 1928 in Oxford, NC to the late Talton Thomas Hughes, Sr. and Loyd Dickerson Hughes. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Ursula Frazier Hughes; son, David Talton Hughes Shawn , and a sister Marilyn Hughes LoganRichard of...
Phyllis Jane Davidson Briggs
Mar 27, 2013
Phyllis Jane Davidson Briggs, 1922-2013 Phyllis Jane Briggs passed away on March 27, 2013 at age 90 after a 19-year battle with Parkinson's disease. Phyllis was born April 30, 1922 in Worcester, Massachusetts of parents Anneelle Lewis and Jacob Davidson. Throughout her childhood and youth she took dancing lessons and became a very accomplished tap dancer as a young woman....
David Adcock Powell
Mar 26, 2013
Oxford: David Adcock Powell, age 60, died March 26th 2013 at the Jaycee Burneenter at UNC Hospital. He was a native of Granville County and was the son of Edward S. Powell and the late Kathlyn Adcock Powell. Member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and was Past Master of Rolesville Masonic Lodge #483. He was formally employed in the food...
Joe T. Pickard
Mar 26, 2013
Joe Thurman Pickard, 95, of Hillsborough, NC passed away peacefully on March 26, 2013 surrounded by his loving and devoted family on his farm. Mr. Pickard was born in Durham County to the late James Ernest Pickard and Mae Johnson Pickard of Durham. He was preceded ineeath by his wife of 57 years, Mildred Cashwell Pickard; a daughter, Barbara Jo...
Virginia Madren Stone
Mar 21, 2013
Virginia Madren Stone, 92, died March 21, 2013. She was born October 25, 1920 in Caswell County to Ogburn Madren and Minee Apple Madren. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Merle K. Stone, her son, James M. Stone, three sisters, and two brothers. She was a graduate of Anderson High School and the Watts Hospital...
Bertie Lee Qualls
Mar 20, 2013
Creedmoor: Bertie Lee Qualls, died March 20, 2013 at Uneersal Health Care. She was a native of Kanawha Co., West Virginia and was the daughter of the late George and Maggie Stevens Robertson. Mrs. Qualls was married to the late Raymond Qualls for 64 years. Bertie was a beautician for 20 years, member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in...
Barbara Case Mcdonald
Mar 20, 2013
Barbara Case McDonald, age 79, died March 20, 2013 at Duke Medical Center. She was born in Sacramento, CA to the late Frank H. and Dorothy Case. Barbara worked as a real estate broker in Durham and attended Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Barbara is survived by her loving husband of 55 years, Eugene J. McDonald of Durham, NC; Her six...
Anna M. Gawlik
Mar 19, 2013
RALEIGH - Anna M. Gawlik, 95, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at Springmoor Retirement Community in Raleigh. Her husband and dancing partner, Rudolph, passed away in 2010. Anna was the loving mother of four children: Rudolph, Judith, Joseph and John, who resides at Brother James Court. Family and friends remember Anna's broad and joyful smile which beamed brightest when she...
Leonard Richey Cooper
Mar 18, 2013
Mr. Leonard Richey Cooper, 70, of LC Farm Road, Pittsboro, died March 18, 2013 at UNC Hospitals. Mr. Cooper was born March 5, 1943 ineeKalb County, Alabama, one of twelve children of Dolphy and Sindy Ledford Cooper. He enjoyed golf, bowling and fishing; watching westerns and wrestling oneelevision, and riding his mower and his tractor. Mr. Cooper was an expert...
O. Michael Colvin
Mar 16, 2013
O. Michael Colvin died peacefully Saturday evening, March 16, 2013. Mike was born in Princeton, Indiana, on June 15, l936, the only child of Jack aneevelyn Colvin. Mike graduated from Princeton High School in 1954, Indiana Uneersity in 1957 and Washington Uneersity School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1961. He did his internship and residency in internal medicine at...
Mary Ann Ivey
Mar 16, 2013
Mary Ann Ivey died peacefully March 16th, 2013 at her daughter's home in Durham, N.C. surrounded by her family. Mary Ann was the first child of Jesse Jordan and Georgia Coggins Beale. She was born oneebruary 14th, 1929 in Milwaukee, N.C. and was forever her father's Valentine. She was preceded ineeath by her parents, brother J.J., and her husband Bill....
Julius Samuel Adcock, Jr.
Mar 15, 2013
Julius Samuel Adcock Jr., 83, of Durham died Friday, March 15, 2013. A native of Durham he was borneecember 19, 1929 to the late Julius Samuel Adcock Sr. and Ruby Godwin Adcock. Mr. Adcock was educated in the Durham City Schools and was a graduate of the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a veteraneerving in the...
Catherine Strickland Adcock
Mar 15, 2013
OXFORD: Catherine Strickland Adcock , died March 15, 2013 at her home. She was a native of Vance Co. and was the daughter of the late William Nathaniel and Maggie Belle Grissom Strickland. she was preceded ineeath by her husband David L. Adcock, Sr. She was a member of the Oxford Uneed Methodist Church , member of the UMW and...
Peter Leslie Noerr
Mar 15, 2013
Peter Leslie Noerr died on Friday March 15, 2013. Peter was born ineeicester, England, on March 31, 1946 to Leonard and Doris Noerr. Peter was raised mostly in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his family moved in 1951, and attended school at Kingswood and the Uneersity of Witswatersrand, where he earned a degree in physics. After returning to London, Peter was...
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