Obituaries

Dec 2, 2009

Veteran Durham journalist and retired Air force pilot Louis Edward Hodges, Jr., died Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at Hillcrest Convalescent Center. He was suffering from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Hodges was born in Tarboro February 25, 1919, the son of L.E. Hodges and Lydia Sophronia Clark Hodges. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Betty Arnold Hodges; a...

Nov 29, 2009

Oct 30, 2009

Floyd McKinley Ellis passed away at his home, Aspen Hall, in Chatham County on October 30, 2009. He was a native Virginian, but had lived in North Carolina for thirty years. He was a graduate of the Uneersity of Virginia and attended graduate and law school there. Mr. Ellis was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, the Masonic Lodge, and...

Oct 30, 2009

OXFORD: Maynard Macon Brooks, age 81, died Friday, October 30, 2009 at Duke Medical Center. A native of Granville County, he was the son of late Joseph Rhodes and Hortense Mangum Brooks. Mr. Brooks was a member of Delrayno Baptist Church where he served as superintendent of Sunday schools for 24 years. He was also a member of the Henry...

Oct 30, 2009

Andrew Weston Hobbs, 1 month, died on Friday, October 30, 2009. Andrew was born in Durham at Duke Medical Center on October 1, 2009, to Gene and Becky Hobbs. Andrew was a brave boy with more courage and strength than one could imagine. He meant more to his family in his short life than can be explained in words. We...

Oct 29, 2009

Shirley Vana Hollister, 83, died on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at Duke Uneersity Medical Center in Durham NC. Shirley was born ineewiston, NY to the late Joseph and Bessie Mae Vana on April 9, 1926. Shirley was a graduate of the Red Brick School ineewiston, NY and the DeVry Institute of Buffalo NY. As a young woman she was an...

Oct 29, 2009

WILTON: Lessie D. Strother, born neember 16, 1910 in Granville County, died Thursday, October 29, 2009, daughter of the late Raymond Joseph and Lessie Weathers Davis and widow of J. Frank Strother. She was a retired License Practical Nurse at Granville Hospital and was the oldest member of Banks UMC. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday,...

Oct 26, 2009

OXFORD: David Littleton Adcock, Sr., age 82 a resident of Oxford died Monday October 26, 2009 in Granville Medical Center. He was a native of Granville Co. and was the son of the late Gold Damon and Ruth Smith Adcock. Mr. Adcock retired from Oxford Implement Co. and Al Sandling Chevrolet. He was a veteran of WWII serving in the...

Oct 22, 2009

William Joseph Munley, Jr., 75, died peacefully Thursday, October 22, 2009 at his home with his wife by his side. Mr. Munley was born in Cleveland Ohio, son of the late William J. Munley, Sr. and Marie Gardner Munley. Surviving are his wife, Elaine D. Munley; one daughter, Elizabeth Ann Munley Cironi of Hamilton, VA; three sons, Robert William Munley...

Oct 22, 2009

OXFORD: Wendy Greenway Leonard, age 42, died Thursday, October 22, 2009. She was the daughter of Luther H. Greenway and the late Louise Currin Greenway and was a member of Delrayno Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 3:00 P.M. ineentry-neell & Vaughan Funeral Home Chapel by Rev. Hilton Moore and Rev. Eddie Mauldin....

Oct 22, 2009

Eugenia M. Ladd died Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Duke Medical Center. She was born in Durham to the late Willie E. and Servada Barbee Massey. A longtime member of Carr Uneed Methodist Church, Mrs. Ladd retired from Duke Uneersity where she worked as a secretary for the dean of the school's Physics Dept. Mrs. Ladd is survived by her...

Oct 19, 2009

OXFORD: Elsie C. Currin age 84, died Monday, October 19, 2009 at Granville House in Oxford. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late John A. and Carrie Puckett Currin. She was a homemaker and a member of Hester Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school and the Fellowship Group. Funeral services will be held on...

Oct 19, 2009

Frederick Page Carpenter, Jr. died suddenly from a heart attack on Monday, October 19, 2009 while working in his pallet business that he loved so much. Born and raised in Durham County in the Shady Grove Community on Carpenter Pond Road, he was the son of the late Frederick Page Carpenter, Sr. and Mary Fuller Carpenter. In 1975, he graduated...

Oct 17, 2009

OXFORD: John Thomas Hendrick, age 80, of 5624 Old Roxboro Road, died Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late John W. and Gladys Browneendrick. He was a retired farmer, a disabled veteran of the US Army, and a member of Geneva Presbyterian Church. Funeral...

Oct 17, 2009

Mr. Henry Dabney Moorman, 90, died October 17, 2009 at Hillcrest Convalescent Center in Durham, after several years of declining health following a stroke. Mr. Moorman was borneebruary 1, 1919 in Stigler, Oklahoma. He attended the Uneersity of Colorado and the Uneersity of Oklahoma earning degrees in Library Science and Geology. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during...

Oct 16, 2009

Carl Mills Boyd, Jr. passed away peacefully of spinal cord complications with family by his side early Friday morning, October 16, 2009 at Duke Raleigh Hospital in Raleigh, NC. Carl was born in Pinetta, FL January 17, 1943 to Carl and Harvie Boyd, Sr. He graduated from Madison High School in 1961, where he played on the basketball team, and...

Oct 16, 2009

OXFORD: Marguerite Clarke Parker, age 85, died Friday, October 16, 2009, at Uneersal Healthcare in Oxford. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late Roscoe Z. and Mable Sizemore Clarke. She was retired from Mecklenburg County Health Department in Boydton, VA. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, October 18, 2009 from Gentry-neell...

Oct 15, 2009

Larry Ray "Red" Lineey, 53, of Bynum Road in Pittsboro died October 15, 2009 at the Laurels of Chatham after an extended illness. Red was born in Chatham County on July 19, 1956, the son of Marvin Lineey and Frances Mann Lineey. He was a retired sheet metal mechanic, and was a member of Love's Creek Baptist Church in Siler...

Oct 12, 2009

Elizabeth Cantey Rettig, 63, died October 12, 2009 at home in Chapel Hill surrounded by her immediate family. Born on April 7, 1946, she was the daughter of the late Morgan Sabb Cantey aneelizabeth Ann Acree Cantey. For 47 years Beth was a beloved foster child of Hugh Ellsworth Steele and Carolyn Skinner Steele. Beth was a graduate of West...

Oct 11, 2009

OXFORD: Ernest McCullough Hilton, age 88, of 715 Williamsboro Street died Sunday, October 11, 2009. A native of Davie County, he came to Oxford in 1940 where he opened and operated a sawmill business. He was the son of the late Roland A. and Sallie McCullough Hilton. In 1960, he became the owner and operator of the firm Hilton and...