Obituaries

Edna Dollar Wood

Edna Dollar Wood

Mar 1, 2013

Edna Dollar Wood, 86, died on Friday, March 01, 2013. Edna was born in Wake County, NC to the late Ruby Dollar Whitaker West and Junius C. Dollar on January 17, 1927. Mrs. Wood had been a Durham resident for most of her life. She was a graduate of Durham High Class of 1945, member of Aldersgate Uneed Methodist Church,...

Joseph Walker Garrard

Joseph Walker Garrard

Feb 28, 2013

Joseph Walker Garrard II, 97, died at 1:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at his home. Mr. Garrard was born in Durham County oneebruary 11, 1916, a son of Isaac Marion Garrard and Lonie Grey Sanford. He was preceded ineeath by his wife, Minee Boddie Green, his son, Isaac Marion Garrard, II, his sister, Lucille G. Dunnagan, his two...

Rev. David Q. Garrison

Rev. David Q. Garrison

Feb 24, 2013

Rev. David Q. Garrison, 74, of Durham, died peacefully on Monday, February 24th 2013, surrounded by his family. A native of the Steele Creek community near Charlotte, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Salutatorian of the 1961 class of the Uneersity of North Carolina, where he was also President of the Westmineer Fellowship. While attending graduate school for mathematics at...

Ana Maria Kennedy

Ana Maria Kennedy

Feb 23, 2013

DURHAM-Ana Maria Kennedy, 61, of Durham died Saturday, February 23, 2013 at home. Ana was the daughter of the late Antonio Beamud and Anita Piera Beamud. Born in Queens, New York, she earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Spanish from the State Uneersity of New York at Albany and a Ph.D. in Golden Age Literature from Duke Uneersity. She taught...

William Obie Harmon

William Obie Harmon

Feb 17, 2013

Mr. William Obie Harmon, 85, of Old Graham Road, Pittsboro, died February 17, 2013 at UNC Hospitals following a period of declining health. Born in Pittsboro oneeptember 21, 1927, Obie was the son of James Wesley Harmon and Dollie Battle Lilly Harmon. Obie served in the US Army in Korea; and, worked as a foreman at Kayser-Roth hosiery at the...

Mamie Herring Mullins

Mamie Herring Mullins

Feb 16, 2013

RALEIGH: Mamie Herring Mullins, age 89, of Raleigh, died on Saturday, February 16, 2013. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late Robert Roscoe and Anee Bryaneerring. Mamie was a member of Hayes Barton Baptist Church where she was a member of the Townsend Class. She was a former school teacher and a homemaker. Graveside memorial...

Stephen Scott Taylor

Stephen Scott Taylor

Feb 15, 2013

Stephen Scott Taylor, 53, of Durham, North Carolina went to be with the lord after a long courageous battle with cancer, on Friday, February 15, 2013 at Duke Hospital with his family by his side. Mr. Taylor was born ineeston, West Virginia, oneeptember 27, 1959 to the late Austin Taylor and Lois E. Taylor of Fort Myers, FL. Stephen grew...

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee

Feb 13, 2013

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee died Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at Durham Regional Hospital. A Durham native, she was born June 28, 1926 to Telphor Hinton Lawrence and Lottie Riley Lawrence. She lived in Richmond Virginia from 1952 to 1970 when she and her loving husband of fifty years, Edgar Bowen Huckabee, returned to Durham. Mrs. Huckabee graduated from Durham High...

Wilma Burns Hearn

Wilma Burns Hearn

Feb 7, 2013

Mrs. Wilma Gray Burns Hearn, 85, died February 7, 2013 at the Laurels of Chatham. Mrs. Hearn was born August 7, 1927 in Chatham County, the daughter of Garland Burns and Kate Brown Burns. Mrs. Hearn was a homemaker, but had also worked at UNC Hospital; as well as providing home health care. She was a member of Gum Springs...

Wayne D. Tingen

Wayne D. Tingen

Feb 7, 2013

BULLOCK: Wayne Tingen, age 63 of Bullock, died Thursday, February 07, 2013. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late Wilton H. and Coreen Faucette Tingen. Mr. Tingen was a member of Marrow's Chapel Uneed Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conduct at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Marrow's Chapel Uneed Methodist Church...

George Louis Kaufman

George Louis Kaufman

Feb 6, 2013

Mr. George Louis Kaufman, 86, died February 6, 2013. Survivors include his wife Jane F. Kaufman; children, Richard Kaufman and Valerie Kaufman; step-children, Jeffrey Green and Jori Green; brothers, David and Aaron Kaufman; and five grandchildren. A private memorial service is planned. Online condolences to www.hallwynne.com. Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Cremation, Pittsboro.

William Joseph Davis

William Joseph Davis

Feb 5, 2013

William Joseph Davis, 64, died peacefully Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at UNC Hospital with his sons at his side. Bill was born March 20, 1948, to William & Bertha Casamento Davis in Washington DC. Bill grew up in Norwich NY, the middle of six children, and Graduated from Norwich High School in the class of 1966. Attending Mohawk Valley Community...

William Bradley Gore

William Bradley Gore

Feb 5, 2013

Mr. William Bradley Gore, 52, of Pittsboro, NC died Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at UNC Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Brad was born January 23, 1961 to Billy Joe Gore and Jean Williams Gore in Chapel Hill, NC. Brad was self-employed as a carpenter. This devoted Tarheel fan could always be found wearing his UNC ball cap. Brad loved...

Norwood Blackley Kearney

Norwood Blackley Kearney

Feb 5, 2013

Norwood Blackley Kearney, 93, died Tuesday, February 5, 2013. He was a native of Franklin Co. and was the son of the late Alfonzo C. and Adell Blackley Kearney. He was a retired farmer and a lifetime member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM Thursday February 7, 2013 at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church...

Danal Lee Hunt

Danal Lee Hunt

Feb 3, 2013

Danal Lee Hunt, age 76, died Sunday, February 3, 2013 in his Durham home surrounded by his loving family. A Durham native, he was born to the late Wilmer L. Hunt, Sr. and Nellie Long Hunt on neember 15, 1936. Dan was a proud veteran of the U.S. Navy and a member of Aneer Ave. Baptist Church. He worked as...

Rodney W. Terry

Rodney W. Terry

Feb 2, 2013

Rodney Warreneerry, age 60, died Saturday, February 2, 2013. A Hillsborough native, Rodney was born to the late John P. and Abbie Smith Terry. Rodney is survived by his sisters, Alice Pearce and husband, Kyle, of Kannapolis, NC; and Mary Terry of Covington, GA; three step-children, Melissa Glosson, Tony Davis and Jason Davis; his niece, Kelly Pearce and nephew, Kevineearce;...

Nellie T. Ferrell

Nellie T. Ferrell

Feb 2, 2013

DURHAM - Mrs. Nellie T. Ferrell, 93, wife of the late Sam B. Ferrell, died Saturday night, February 2, 2013, at Hillcrest Convalescent Center. Mrs. Ferrell was born and raised in Durham. She was educated in the Durham City Schools, graduating from Durham High School in 1938. Upon graduating from college, Nellie worked at the Pentagon in Washington, DC; as...

Dennis Thomasson Hight, Sr.

Dennis Thomasson Hight, Sr.

Jan 31, 2013

GREENSBORO: Dennis Thomasson Hight, Sr., a long time resident of Greensboro, departed for his Father's House on January 31, 2013. Mr. Hight was born June 25, 1924 and grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of the late John James Hight and Sallie Catherineelliot Hight. Dennis was one of eight siblings, Hazel E. Hight, Wilhelminee. Hight, Lucy Lerleen Hight, Mae...

James Jack Thomas Horner

James Jack Thomas Horner

Jan 31, 2013

DURHAM- James Thomas "Jack" Horner, Sr., age 97, a veteraneewspaper journalist who was sports editor of the Durham Morning Herald from 1944 thru 1968 died at the Hock Pavilion January 31, 2013. He suffered from dementia and had only been sick four days with kidney disease. He was born in Fayetteville, NC son of Josiah Turner Horner and Hattie Belle...

Nellye Roberts Tunstall

Nellye Roberts Tunstall

Jan 29, 2013

STEM: Mrs. Nellye Roberts Tunstall, age 98, died Tuesday, January 29, 2013. She was the daughter of the late Ulysses M. and Lucy Fowler Roberts and the widow of the late Joe Beasley Tunstall. Mrs. Tunstall was born oneecember 14, 1914 in Knapp-of-Reeds, NC. She was a member of Butner Presbyterian Church where she served as organist and choir direct...

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