Obituaries

Elsie Eileen Baber Nass, age 71, of Pittsboro, NC died Sunday neember 16, 2014. She was born April 19, 1943 ineenver Colorado to the late William Elmer and Leda Rose Baber. Elsie is survived by her husband, James Nass of Pittsboro, NC; her sons, Sean Nass and his wife Heather Novak of Bristow, VA and Brandan Nass and his wife...

On May 25, 2019, I beat cancer. Born on April 9th 1947 to Arthur and Charmaine Ferguson in Cobleskill, NY, I eventually settled in Wilson, NC graduating from Fike High School in 1965. I set off to see the world as a Navy Corpsman for 4 years and as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist for 46 years eventually retiring from UNC...

Pastor Johneenry Covington, age 73, of Pittsboro, NC went home to be with his Savior late Saturday, May 31, 2014. John was born July 11, 1940 in Salisbury NC. He was the pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church for the last five years as well as the Chaplin for the Bynum Ruritan Club. He is preceded ineeath by his parents...

Lavern Griffin Stott, 82, died Saturday, neember 22, 2014. Lavern was born July 29, 1932 in Franklin County to the late H. Clemmon and Athaleah Griffin. She worked for the state of North Carolina with the department of Transportation for more than 30 years, retiring in 1990. Lavern was actively involved in Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Beside her parents, she...

Paul Thomas LeClair, 60, of Durham, N.C. passed away unexpectedly at home oneeptember 2, 2018. He was born August 30, 1958 in Oswego, N.Y. to Leigh and Joan Lacey LeClair. He is survived by his wife Susan Squire LeClair, daughter Leah and son Eric, his father, his step-mother, Priscilla, his brothers, Tim (wife Rhea Anna) and Larry (wife Susan), his...

Lowell Elree Bullock, 90, went on to the Lord Sunday, neember 24, 2013. He was borneecember 12, 1922 to William and Lula Nelson Bullock in Pitt Co. Lowell was an active member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Durham. He was also a former member of the Mason's, Shriner's aneelk's Club in Durham. Lowell worked as a barber, for over...

Essie Mae Boring, 76, died neember 10, 2014 at Uneealth in Durham. She was the daughter of the late John Edgar Swaney and Margaret Dixon Swaney. Essie will be dearly missed by her son, William Chestnut and wife, Dawn, of Hillsborough; her sister, Linda Coggins, of Mebane; her grandson, Sean Chestnut, of Asheville; and granddaughter, Sarah Chestnut, of Charlotte. She...

Kathleen ???Kass??? O???Donnell Shulby Kathleen ???Kass??? Elizabeth O???Donnell Shulby, age 90, passed away Wednesday, April 3rd at Hock Family Pavilion in Durham, NC. Her passing follows that of her beloved husband of 66 years, Edgar Truman ???Bill??? Shulby, by two years. Kass was born in Pittsburgh and raised ineeadon, PA. She graduated from Yeadon High School with a group of...

Katherine Rankineeaver was born August 9, 1922, in Macon, Georgia, the oldest daughter of Myrtle and Goodwin Rankin. Growing up in Macon, she attended Miller High School and Wesleyan College, and married in July 1942 Charles Beaver, who was stationed nearby at Camp Wheeler Army Base. They lived in Little Rock, Arkansas (Camp Robinson), then Tyler, Texas (Camp Fannin), where...

Olga Boubouras Thuer passed away peacefully on neember 26, 2018 in Chapel Hill, NC following a brief hospitalization for progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).?? Beloved wife of the late Carl Thuer, married for 53 years; daughter of the late Mary and Matthew Boubouras, and sister of the late Renee Mitchell.?? Loving mother of Diane Winans; grandmother of Maxwell, Theodore...

Lois Ann McCaskill, born June 3, 1953, in Milledgeville, Georgia, lost her courageous battle against Mylodysplasia Syndrome on April 7, 2014. She was given the gift of an extra year of life by a selfless donor who provided the new bone marrow that she received last April 25, 2013. The extra year of life allowed her to spend more time...

Daniel Roy Johnson, of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, died in Duke Uneersity Hospital, due to respiratory failure, surrounded by his family oneebruary 24, 2015. He was 67 years old. Dan is survived by his wife, Linda Johnson (Dillman); his children, Jerry Johnson (Amy) of Bradenton, Florida, and Julie Johnson of South Beloit, Illinois; his granddaughters, Jasmine Johnson, Anna Scordato, Claudia Johnson,...

Mr. John Thomas "Pete" Moore, 87, of Moncure, NC peacefully passed away neember 22, 2013 at Sanford Health & Rehab in Sanford, NC. Mr. Moore was born in Chatham County on May 3, 1926, the son of the late Emma Olivia Olinger and Raymond Lee Moore. Pete was a veteran of WWII who honorably served in the Philippines and Japan....

Dr. Mary Alice Shaver, an educator and scholar in advertising and mass communication, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, at her home ineearrington Village, North Carolina after a brief illness. She was 74. She spent many years on the faculty at the Uneersity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, served as director of the Advertising Department and Michigan State Uneersity, chair of...

Maureen Nolan Daughtry, age 90, died peacefully neember 12, 2013, ineer Durham home. Maureen was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland to the late Patrick Joseph and Margaret Louisa Sullivan Nolan. Ineer youth Maureen lived in Ireland, Malta aneengland while her father served in the British military. While living in England and working for the war effort during World War...

Our dear sweet mother, Doris Thomasson Brown, age 91, of Durham NC, passed away Thursday evening, the 6th of February, while holding her hand. She blessed us so very much throughout our lives. We are so very grateful that she is now in the hands of our Lord. She was an angel who blessed so many people with her genee...

Dr. Blaine S. Nashold, Jr. was born on neember 21, 1923 ineenox, South Dakota. He was raised ineenver, Colorado, and Mt. Vernon, Indiana, on his family farm and attended Indiana Uneersity where he met his wife Irene Halverson . At Ohio State Uneersity he awarded a Masters of Science Degree in Microbiology. After attaining his M.D. from the Uneersity of...

Margaret Lovelace Fessler, age 98, passed away peacefully oneeptember 25, 2018, in Durham NC. Margaret was a proud and dedicated mother, citizen, civil servant, and Kansan. She grew up in the Great Depression, began work early, married, had a daughter, was widowed ineer early 40s, aneeventually went on to a distinguished career as a secretary in the U.S. Department of...