Obituaries
Lillian Smalley
Apr 24, 1927
DURHAM - Lillian Marie Baber Smalley, age 85, died peacefully ineer Durham home Wednesday evening July 4. Lillian was born in Richmond, VA to the late Leonard Keel and Marie Thompson Baber on April 24, 1927. Blessed with a lovely soprano voice, Lillian brought joy to others through music throughout her life. Her love of books carried her into a...
Paquita Poza
Mar 14, 1927
Paquita Poza was a free spirit, a strong, independent woman who beganeer life at a time and place where that was not the norm. Born Fanny de Jesus Jaramillo, March 14, 1927 in Gu??tica, Colombia to a devoutly Catholic family, from the beginning she did not accept teachings uneestioningly. She said she remembered wondering when she was very young and...
Patricia Lavell Robertson
Mar 12, 1927
Durham ??? Mrs. Patricia Lavell Robertson died Tuesday evening at the Forest at Duke Health Center. Trish was born ineenatchee, Washington on March 12, 1927. She attended schools ineenatchee and Seattle and attended from the Uneersity of Washington. In August of 1947, she married H. B. Robertson, Jr. During her husband???s career in the Navy, they lived in San Diego,...
Odette Lauve Briggs
Mar 9, 1927
Odette Lauve Briggs, 91, died peacefully ineer sleep April 6 at her Durham home. She was born March 9, 1927 in Alexandria, LA to the late, Edmee (Rivoire) and Albert Pierre Lauve. Odette was proudly raised in a traditional Catholic home with her French immigrant mother, American father and sister ineer beloved New Orleans. She graduated from St. Mary???s Dominican...
Virginia Fedor
Jan 11, 1927
Virginia Fedor, age 86, of Durham, NC died Tuesday May 21 in Durham after a brief illness. She was born January 11, 1927 ineew York City, the daughter of Peter and Inez Viera Gonzalez. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Joe Fedor in 2012, her parents and her brother, David Gonzalez of Milford, NJ. Virginia is survived by her...
James Reid Pleasants, Jr.,
Oct 18, 1926
James Reid Pleasants, Jr. 81, died Friday in Duke Hospital following a brief illness. A Durham native, he was born October 18, 1926 in Watts Hospital to James Reid and Nellie Fern Lashley Pleasants. Jim was a 1944 graduate of Durham High School and Wake Forest Uneersity. He joined the Claude M. May Company immediately after college, and then entered...
John F. Richards
Jul 22, 1926
John F. "Jack" Richards, 86, died Sunday morning in Duke Hospice's Hock Pavilion. He was born July 22, 1926 in Tottenville, Staten Island, NY to the late John aneemma Richards. Mr. Richards served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was stationed in the Philippines. A Durham resident since 1962, he was employed with Collins & Aikman Corp. for 46...
George A. Cralle
Jun 5, 1926
George A. Cralle, 85, died Friday, March 16 in UNC Hospital. He was born in High Point, NC June 5, 1926 to the late Fontaine Maury Cralle and Helen Muse Cralle. George attended Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, NY, from where he enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 17. With his musical talent on the alto saxophone, he...
Evelyneewton Evelyneewton
May 17, 1926
CHAPEL HILL - Evelyneewton, 92, of New York City and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, died on the 15th of neember.?? She was born on May 17, 1926 in Roanee Rapids, North Carolina to Nanny Cleaton Shaw and John Albert Shaw. She was a resident of Durham where she raised her family, and then moved with her husband Mitchell (???Mitch???) to...
Roy Jack Horner, Sr.
Apr 6, 1926
Roy Jack Horner, Sr. died Wednesday morning in Rougemont surrounded by his loving family. He was 79 years old. Jack was born in Los Angeles, CA to the late Roy J. and Nellie Tong Horner on April 6, 1926. Jack moved to Durham in 1983 after proudly serving his country for 20 years while stationed in the U.S. Army. Prior...
Louise Alstoneemay
Mar 23, 1926
DURHAM: Louise A. LeMay, 85, of Durham, departed this life after an extended illness. She was born on March 23, 1926, and was preceded ineeath by her husband of 63 years, Dr. John C. Lemay, her parents, Clara Louise and Julianeeredith Alston, her brother, Julianeeredith Alston, Jr. and by her sister Anne Alston Malloy Currin. She was a devoted mother,...
Harry T. Mcpherson, M.D.
Jan 9, 1926
Harry Thurman McPherson, 92, died at home Wednesday, August 8 of natural causes. He was born January 9, 1926 in Walnut Cove, North Carolina to Gladys (Wheeler) and H. Russell McPherson.?? He graduated from Walnut Cove High School with the last class of public school students to have completed 11, not 12, years of schooling.??He entered Duke Uneersity in 1942...
Geraldine "Geri" Powell Deloatche
Aug 6, 1925
DURHAM: Geraldine "Geri" Powell DeLoatche, age 91, passed away on neember 8th??at Hillcrest Convalescent Center in Durham. Born in Hartwell, Georgia on August 6, 1925, she was the youngest of five children born to Isham and Ida Gaines Powell.?? Geri was preceded ineeath by her parents, brothers, Morrell (Louise) Powell, Horace Powell, sisters Carlise (E.W.) Lovett , Mary (Hugh) Bell...
Meta Louise Frye Howe
Jul 23, 1925
Durham, NC - Louise F. Howe, age 91, died Thursday, October 27th, in Montclair, VA, surrounded by her family.?? She was a longtime resident of Durham, NC. Mrs. Howe was born on July 23, 1925 in Bluefield, WV and was raised in Atlantic City, NJ.?? During WWII she was employed by the Glen L. Martin Company, Essex, MD.?? She was...
Fu-Tien Sung
Jan 20, 1925
Dr. Fu-Tien Sung, age 87, passed away during his sleep at home in Durham, North Carolina, on Saturday, July 28. He was born on January 20, 1925, in Jinan, China, to the late Ching-Tsai Sung and Shu He. With the onset of World War II, his family like many others relocated several times in the face of the advancing Japanee...
Lenora F. O'Neal
Oct 9, 1924
Lenora Fuller O'Neal, age 86, died Wednesday, August 10, at Duke Medical Center. A life-long resident of Durham, Lenora was born to the late Jimmie N. and Lelia Laneey Fuller on October 9, 1924. She was a talented and skilled organist who spent 24 years playing for the coneegation at St. Paul Uneed Methodist Church and later played at Braggtown...
Vivian Melvin
Sep 3, 1924
CHAPEL HILL - Vivian Melvin, age 92 died on December 26. She was born on Sept 3, 1924 to Halcott Hughes and Daisy Inscoe Williams. Vivian was born and raised in Durham NC. She loved her days at Durham High School and loved to play tennis there. As she shared her stories of being a young girl, and by the...
Cornelia Conee Grissom Mcleod
Jun 6, 1924
DURHAM: Cornelia "Conee" Grissom McLeod, 88, died Monday in Duke Hospital following a brief illness. A native of Vance County, she was born June 6, 1924 to Charlie aneeffie Glenn Grissom. Conee graduated from Peace College, after which she began working in the offices of Goldeneelt Manufacturing Co. She married Randall A. McLeod, her husband of 62 years, whom she...
Ruth E. Mogilnicki
Apr 1, 1924
Ruth Ezyk Mogilnicki, 91, died after a brief illness at Croasdaile Retirement Community. She was born April 1, 1924 ineew Bedford, MA to Joseph Charles and Josephine (Rog) Ezyk. Ruth graduated from New Bedford High School. She married Eugene J. Mogilnicki in 1949, and the couple moved to Durham. Ruth began working for the Employment Security Commission and later for...
William Blair Anderson
Nov 8, 1923
William Blair Anderson of Durham died peacefully on Friday, March 1 at the age of 95. His wife of 59 years, Barbara Deaton Anderson, was with him; his three children and two of his grandchildreneere nearby. Born Nov. 8, 1923, he was raised by his parents, the late William S. Anderson and Lenora Amanda Hagen Anderson, his older sister Harriette,...
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