Obituaries

Arthur R. Varga, Sr.

Arthur R. Varga, Sr.

Jul 14, 2009

Arthur R. "Art" Varga, Sr., 85, died July 14, 2009 at his home in Moncure. Mr. Varga was born in Chittenden, VT oneecember 8, 1923, the son of Aneew aneesther Tarsci Varga. Survivors include his wife Barbara D. McKay Varga; sons and daughters, Sandra Levesque, Judith Lamberti, Ronald, Robert, and Arthur Varga; grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons and great granddaughters; and...

Eugene Holland Moore, Iii

Eugene Holland Moore, Iii

Jul 12, 2009

Eugene Holland "Chip" Moore, III, age 57, died peacefully Sunday morning, July 12, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital. A Durham native, Chip was born to the late Beatrice Womble Moore aneeugene Holland Moore, Jr. on August 26, 1951. Chip graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and taught in the Durham Public Schools for 30 years. He played a significant role in the...

Eleanor Puryear Lunsford

Eleanor Puryear Lunsford

Jul 9, 2009

OXFORD: Mrs. Eleanor Puryear Lunsford, age 96, died Thursday, July 9, 2009 at Granville Medical Center. She was a native of Granville County and the daughter of the late John and Betty Overby Puryear. Mrs. Lunsford was a member of Trinity Uneed Methodist Church and a homemaker. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Sunday, July 12, 2009 from...

Jenneer Robertsoneeza

Jenneer Robertsoneeza

Jul 8, 2009

Jenneer Robertsoneeza died Wednesday evening, July 8, 2009 at Duke Medical Center surrounded by her loving family after a valiant three year battle with cancer. She was 46 years old. Jenny was born in St. Joseph Missouri on July 27, 1962. She graduated from Northern High School in 1980 and was employed by Verizon for many years until her illness....

Stephen Patrick Russell

Stephen Patrick Russell

Jul 4, 2009

Stephen Patrick Russell Stephen Patrick Russell, 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina died in a drowning accident on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at Jordan Lake, North Carolina. Stephen was born on May 22, 1986 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada. He eventually moved from Newfoundland to Alberta, where among his other feats, he played AAA hockey. At the age of eighteen, his...

Charles Chuck Henry Jones

Charles Chuck Henry Jones

Jul 2, 2009

Charles H. "Chuck" Jones, age 83, died Thursday, July 2, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital after several years of declining health. He was born in Kinston, NC to the late Ruben Samuel and Cledy Victory Russell Jones on May 15, 1926. Chuck spent most of his adult life in Durham where he worked for 35 years as a district representative...

Frances Bumpass Daniel

Frances Bumpass Daniel

Jun 29, 2009

OXFORD: Frances Bumpass Daniel, age 90 of Oxford, died Tuesday, June 29, 2009. Mrs. Daniel was a native of Granville County and was the daughter of the late Wiley and Julia Timberlake Bumpass. She was a member of Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, a homemaker and a cosmetologist. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM from...

Lucy Celia Cottrell

Lucy Celia Cottrell

Jun 29, 2009

OXFORD: Ms. Lucy Celia Cottrell, age 65, died of cancer on June 29, 2009 at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, NC. Celia was born on January 2, 1944 to the late Sidney and Lucy Frazier Cottrell. As the only girl among three brothers, she held a special place ineer family as she grew up in rural Oxford. In 1987, Celia...

Ruthie Veasey Carpenter

Ruthie Veasey Carpenter

Jun 28, 2009

Mrs. Ruthie Veasey Carpenter, 94, formerly of Aneews Store Road, Pittsboro, died June 28, 2009 at Chapel Hill Health & Rehab. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Granville County on August 28, 1914, a daughter of Oren Judsoneeasey and Susie Anna Weaver Veasey. Mrs. Carpenter was retired from UNC where she worked as a nursing assistant at the campus infirmary. She...

Harold Joseph Joe Huber

Harold Joseph Joe Huber

Jun 22, 2009

Harold Joseph Joe Huber, age 54, died peacefully Monday morning, June 22, 2009 at the Hock Family Pavilion, Duke Homecare and Hospice in Durham. Born in Oneida, WI on April 2, 1955, Joe was the son of Leroy and Pearl Huber and the late Glorideaneeymour. Joe's passion for the outdoors brought him to Jordan Lake for neerous camping and fishing...

Doris W. Williams

Doris W. Williams

Jun 22, 2009

Doris Gray Whitaker Williams, 96, died Monday, June 22, 2009 at Britthaven of Chapel Hill. Born in Durham in 1913, she was the daughter of the late William Edgar Whitaker, Sr. and Anee Pearl Lasater Whitaker. After graduating Durham High School in 1930, Doris attended Duke Uneersity for two years. In 1935, she married Crawford Samuel Williams. In addition to...

Margaret Maggie Middleton

Margaret Maggie Middleton

Jun 18, 2009

Margaret Alice Middleton was born in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 1944 and died June 18, 2009. Since 1981 she resided in Carrboro, NC where she was a violist and played many concerts with various groups in the Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill area. Most notably she was a member of the orchestra for the annual Duke Uneersity Messiah performances....

Charles Warren Lanham, Jr.

Charles Warren Lanham, Jr.

Jun 17, 2009

Charles Warren Lanham Jr. 87 passed away unexpectedly oneednesday, June 17, 2009. He was a resident of Croasdaile Village Retirement Center in Durham. Charles was born in Cumberland, Maryland on January 18, 1922. He was the son of the Reverend Charles and Mary Rawlings Lanham. He spent most of his childhood in Baltimore, MD. In 1943 he graduated from Duke...

Albert Perry Roberts

Albert Perry Roberts

Jun 13, 2009

Albert Perry Roberts, age 44, died Saturday, June 13, 2009, at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Albert was born on March 2, 1965 in Vance County to Joyce Goswick Roberts and the late Arnold Roberts. A member of the Sons of the Legionnaires, Albert was a kind, genee and caring man who developed a strong passion for Chevrolet hot rods...

Mitchell Allen Lane

Mitchell Allen Lane

Jun 12, 2009

OXFORD: Mitchell Allen Lane, age 26 a resident of Oxford died June 12, 2009 in Vance County. A native of Oxford he was the son of Charles Allen and Gail Beal Lane. He was of the Baptist faith and worked in surveying. Funeral services will be held Sunday June 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM ineeace's Chapel Baptist Church by the...

Minee Mccormick Burns

Minee Mccormick Burns

Jun 8, 2009

Mrs. Minee Robert Dixon McCormick Burns, 90 of Bear Creek died June 8, 2009 at The Laurels of Chatham. Born April 4, 1919 at home in Chatham County, she was a daughter of Charles Franklin and Katie Mae Smith McCormick. Mrs. Burns was a retired seamstress, but had earlier operated Pickard's Department Store for a number of years. She was...

Col. John R. Dopler, Usmc Ret.

Col. John R. Dopler, Usmc Ret.

Jun 8, 2009

Col. John Robert Dopler, USMC Retired, died June 8, 2009 in his Fearrington Village home in Pittsboro, NC. Born neember 3, 1929 in East Liverpool, Ohio, Col. Dopler was the son of Harold E. Dopler and Anncille Minerva McDaniel Dopler. He received his degree in Accounting and Finance from Miami Uneersity, Oxford, OH in 1951. Col. Dopler enlisted in the...

Kiran Paul Zota-Stull

Kiran Paul Zota-Stull

Jun 7, 2009

A shooting star streaked beyond the earthly horizon on January 1, 2012, with the death of Durhamite Kiran Paul Zota-Stull. Kiran, age two and one-half, was the ever loving son of Sejal Zota and Brian Stull and steadfast companion of his five-year old brother Kabir. He died in a tragic accident travelling with his family in Mumbai, India. Born in...

Jerry Thomas Newcomb

Jerry Thomas Newcomb

Jun 5, 2009

OXFORD: Jerry Thomas Newcomb, age 71, died Friday, June 5, 2009 at his home in Kittrell. Mr. Newcomb was born in Granville County on March 8, 1938 and was the son of the late Wiley Fleming Newcomb and Mary Humphries Newcomb. He was a member of Gray Rock Uneed Methodist Church and a retired farmer and mechanic. Funeral services will...

Norma Neems Horton

Norma Neems Horton

Jun 4, 2009

Mrs. Norma Neems Horton, 66, of Farrington Point Road, Chapel Hill, died peacefully ineer home Thursday afternoon, June 4, 2009 following a period of declining health. A native of Orange County, Mrs. Horton was born in Hillsborough on June 24, 1942, the daughter of A. V. Neems and Texxie Squires Neems. Mrs. Horton was the owner/operator of Norma's Houskeeping cleaning...

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