Obituaries
Sally Anna Decker
Jun 10, 2023
Sally Anna Decker, 82, died peacefully with her husband at her side at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina on June 10, 2023.
Sally was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She was born March 12, 1941, in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Sandy Springs High School in Sandy Springs, Georgia in 1959. She attended Harcum College in...
Julia Smith Walters
Jun 8, 2023
Julia Smith Walters, aged 102, died on June 8, 2023, at UNC Hospice House, Pittsboro, NC. A resident of Stoneridge Retirement Community in Cary, she was born and raised in Salisbury, NC, the daughter of the late Lawrence Neal Smith and Margaret Albright Smith, she was born on April 10, 1921. A 1937 graduate of Boyden Hight School, she was...
Mary Oakes Gooch
Jun 6, 2023
Mary Oakes Gooch, age 87, died on June 6, 2023, surrounded by family in her home. She was born on June 23, 1935, to her late parents, Robert Oakes and Ruth Faucette Oakes of Granville County.
Visitation for family and friends is on Thursday, June 8, 2023, at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at Gentry-Newell & Vaughan. The funeral services will...
Cheryl Kelly
Jun 5, 2023
Durham – Cheryl Kelly, age 65, died in her home on June 5th. She was born on September 20th, 1957, to the late Houston and Ettie May Margaret Funk.
Cheryl had many successes in her Human Resources career, but the job she held closest to her heart was the time working as Human Resources Director at Carolina Meadows retirement community. She...
Rachel Hurley Schrader
Jun 2, 2023
DURHAM - Rachel Hurley Schrader, beloved daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother passed peacefully on Friday evening, June 2, 2023.
Rachel was born in Burlington, NC in 1937 to Alton Thomas Hurley and Zola Pruitt Hurley. Raised in Danville, VA she graduated from George Washington High School and Averitt College. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Record Administration at the Medical...
Rebekah Riley Jordan
Jun 1, 2023
Rebekah “Becky” Browning (nee Riley) Jordan, age 98, went to her heavenly home on June 1, 2023. Becky, called “Skeeter” or “Skeets” by her family, was born in Russellville, KY on March 25, 1925. She lived throughout the United States during her 54-year marriage to husband Cmdr. Glenn Davis Jordan, Sr., a US Navy carrier jet pilot, and the only...
Carolyn Odell Hardin
May 31, 2023
Mrs. Carolyn Odell Couch Hardin, passed peacefully on May 31, 2023 following an extended illness. Carolyn was born on January 11, 1933 to the late Coyette Odell Couch and Margaret Maynard Couch in Durham, North Carolina. Predeceasing her was husband, James Edward “Jim” Hardin, Sr., her son, David Odell Hardin, and daughters, Margaret Elizabeth Hardin, and Carol Lynn Hardin.
As a...
Ruth Gretchen Rufty
May 29, 2023
DURHAM – Miss Ruth Gretchen Rufty, 94, crossed over to be with the Lord on Monday, May 29, 2023 at the home of Mrs. Hazel Ladd in Garner, North Carolina. Gretchen was preceded in death by her mother, Loucile Rigsbee Rufty of Durham, and father, Louis Rothrock Rufty of Salisbury, her two brothers, Henry Edward Rufty, III and Louis Rothrock...
Danny Frank Thomerson
May 28, 2023
Danny Frank Thomerson, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at the age of 68. Danny was born November 25, 1954, to his late parents Junior Frank Thomerson and Pattie Mae Sizemore Thomerson in Oxford, NC.
Danny’s love of music became evident early on. Learning piano and organ, he started playing while in high...
William Carter Livingston
May 26, 2023
William Carter (“Bill”) Livingston of Durham, N.C. departed this life on May 26, 2023, from Lewy Body Disease. He was born on April 2, 1943 in Staunton, Virginia and grew up in Hampton, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnical University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked for many years as an engineer first at Proctor and Gamble Co.,...
David Joseph Stockwell
May 25, 2023
With a heavy heart, we learned our beloved son/brother/father, David Joseph Stockwell, 42, collapsed and passed away suddenly at his home in Asheboro, NC on May 25, 2023. David was born in Syracuse, NY to parents Joseph and Susan Stockwell and lived in Fayetteville, NY until moving with his family to Chapel Hill, NC in 1997.
David graduated from East Chapel...
Robert Charles Roule
May 23, 2023
Robert C. “Bob” Roule, loving husband of Barbara Roop, passed away at Hock Family Pavilion on Monday, May 23, 2023 at the age of 83.
He was born in the smoggy steel-mill town of Monongahela, Pennsylvania to Robert and Irene (Muntan) Roule. It was here that he began his career in newspapers, leading him via scholarship to the muggy college town...
Rolando Toledo Cruz
May 23, 2023
DURHAM– Rolando “Dodoy” Toledo Cruz, 77, died peacefully in his home on May 23, 2023. He was born on February 16, 1946, to the late Eufemio and Venancia Cruz.
Born in the Philippines, Rolando was the youngest of 7 children. Raised in the town of Bacoor Cavite, he was a member of the Catholic community and was devoted to the Parish...
Robert Constantine Wippich
May 21, 2023
ROBERT CONSTANTINE WIPPICH died peacefully at home on Sunday May 21, 2023. Robert was born in Athens, Greece, to Kyriaki (Andreou) and John Wippich. As his father was in the U.S. Air Force, Robert spent his formative years in Greece, France, Germany, Connecticut, and North Dakota. Upon graduating from the American High School in Athens, he moved to Alabama and...
Carol Elizabeth Walter
May 18, 2023
Our loving mother, Carol Elizabeth Goethals Walter, ascended to heaven on May 18th, 2023.
Carol was born on October 10, 1934, and was the youngest of three children.
Carol grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana, and graduated from Ball State University (Chi Omega) with a teaching degree in Speech Therapy. While working as a speech therapist she met Richard Lawrence Walter at a...
Jane Elizabeth Bruer
May 17, 2023
Jane Elizabeth Bruer, age 65, died on May 17th in Durham, North Carolina. On learning she had cancer twelve years earlier, Jane brought to each day thereafter the hope and determination to remain engaged in life: to find something joyful in each day, to care for those she loved, and to pursue her many interests until the end.
Jane’s parents, Charles...
Laura Eaton Branning
May 14, 2023
Laura Eaton Branning, age 66, beloved mother, sister and teacher, passed away peacefully at her home in Durham, NC on Sunday, May 14, 2023.
Laura was born on May 29, 1956, to the late Rudy Satterfield Eaton and Norman Cecil Eaton. She grew up in High Point, North Carolina, and graduated from UNC-G with a B.A in Education, a starting point...
Lynda Anne Winston
May 14, 2023
Lynda Anne Lilly Winston was born in Roanoke Rapids, NC on June 7, 1943, to the late Henry Marcus Lilly and Mary Virginia Glenn Lilly. Lynda died on May 14, 2023, at Brantwood Nursing Home.
Lynda taught second grade in Stafford County, VA and Granville County, NC and she retired in 2006. Lynda was the business manager for Oxford High School...
Richard Charles Copsey
May 14, 2023
HILLSBOROUGH – Richard Charles Copsey (“Copsey”), age 62, died at home with his family on May 14, 2023. He was born in Brentwood, Essex, England on August 25, 1960 to Betty Anne Copsey and Michael Colin Copsey.
After graduating Havering Technical College, in Essex, England, Copsey led overland safari expeditions from London to Johannesburg and spent over 16 years as a...
James Charles Mau
May 13, 2023
James Charles Mau was called home on May 13,2023. His children were by his side at Croasdaile Village in Durham North Carolina.
Jim is the youngest of three boys. He was born in Wyoming on September 23, 1934 to Phyllis and Cecil Mau. He spent his childhood in rural Charles City, Iowa. His love for sports, corn on the cob and...
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