Obituaries

Reverend Crate Harrison Jones

Reverend Crate Harrison Jones

Rev. Crate Harrison Jones, Jr., 87, entered into Heaveneednesday morning at Duke Medical Center. He was born in Louisville, KY and was the son of the late Crate Harrison Jones, Sr. and Ina V. Crenshaw Jones. He was a graduate of Mars Hill College, Wake Forest Uneersity class of 1946 with a BA Degree and the Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville,...

Betty Arnold Hodges

Betty Arnold Hodges

Betty Arnold Hodges, 83, a veteraneewswoman who worked for Herald-Sun Papers in Durham for 43 years, died on Easter Monday, April 5, at the Hock Pavilion. She was born in Waynesboro, VA, and was preceded ineeath by a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and by her husband Louis Edward Hodges Jr., who died last December. The Hodges were married for 55 years....

Augusta Gus Wilson High

Augusta Gus Wilson High

God needed many beautiful flowers in his garden, so he picked the most beautiful of all on January 24, 2010 when Augusta Wilson "Gus" High, 95, passed away. Gus was born in Durham, NC daughter of the late George W. and Nancy Mangum Wilson and the widow of the late J.H. "Jimbo" High, Sr. She retired from Burlington Mills and...

Eleanor Louise Cheneeth

Eleanor Louise Cheneeth

Eleanor Louise Cheneeth, age 82, resident of 1114 Donphil Road, entered into eternal rest Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Born in Elkins, WV, Eleanor was the daughter of the late Blair Silas McQuain and Gladys Brock McQuain. She was a graduate of Davis Elkins College. Eleanor and her family moved to Durham in 1967. She retired from CCB after many years...

Helen Sunas Dennos

Helen Sunas Dennos

Helen Sunas Dennos, 88, died Saturday in Duke Hospital following a brief illness. She was born in Bronx, NY and moved to Durham as a young girl of 8. Helen was the daughter of the late Gus and Zoe Leon Sunas. A graduate of Durham High School, she returned briefly to New York City to work in the Theatre Industry....

James T. Jim Mergner

James T. Jim Mergner

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Evie Kathryn Judge

Evie Kathryn Judge

Miss Evie Kathryn Judge, 7 year old daughter of Adam aneemily Thomas Judge, of Pittsboro, went from being an earthly angel to a heavenly angel on Sunday night, February 28, 2010 after waging a courageous fight against brain tumors. Evie was born in UNC Hospitals on January 19, 2003 and had bravely and fearlessly fought cancer since her first brain...

Martha Crowell Hight

Martha Crowell Hight

OXFORD: Martha Crowell Hight passed surrounded by her loving family on the 15th of March, 2010. Mrs. Hight was the daughter of the late William Watson Crowell and the late Lillian Spencer Crowell. She was born in Statesville, NC on the 25th of July 1926, but moved at a very young age to Oxford, NC, which was ineer words "Next...

Maureen A. Williams

Maureen A. Williams

Maureen A. Williams, 81, died peacefully at her home. Maureeneetired from Duke Uneersity

Wallace Lee Rowland

Wallace Lee Rowland

Mr. Wallace Lee Rowland, 82, died at his home on River Forest Road in Pittsboro oneebruary 11, 2010. A native of Cambridge, Ohio, Mr. Rowland was born April 21, 1927, the son of Ivor Charles Rowland and Lura Lavaria Yountz Rowland. Mr. Rowland attended both Duquesne Uneersity and Duke Uneersity. He was a Seaman First Class in the US Navy...

Everett Lytle

Everett Lytle

Everett William Lytle Jr. passed away oneeptember 2, 2009 into the hands of the Lord after a tragic accident, surrounded by the love of his devoted wife and daughter. He was born in San Diego California oneecember 30, 1936 to Col. Everett William Lytle aneevelyn Victoria Poe Lytle. As the son of an Air Force colonel he had the opportunity...

Martha Chescheir Boren

Martha Chescheir Boren

Martha Chescheir Boren, age 81, died March 27 at UNC Hospitals of pulmonary disease. She was born in 1929 in Louisville, KY. She spent her first 11 years in Shanghai, China, where her parents were missionaries. She returned to the US in 1941 with her mother to avoid the Japanee invasion. After attending high school at St. Mary

Frances Ellis Chaneer

Frances Ellis Chaneer

Frances Ellis Chaneer, 88, resident of Stallings Road died Sunday at her home. Mrs. Chaneer was born in Durham County and was the daughter of the late Henry Davis Ellis aneelizabeth Mae Ellis. After graduating from Durham High School, she attended a local business school. In 1940, she married Madison W. Chaneer. They operated a farm for many years until...

Bernie Cheneeth

Bernie Cheneeth

Bernard "Bernie" Dice Cheneeth, age 83, resident of 1114 Donphil Road, entered into enternal rest Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Born in Elkins, WV, Bernie was the son of the late Roy Perry Cheneeth aneelva Doerr Cheneeth. He was a graduate of Davis Elkins College with a degree in engineering. He served his country during WWII in the U.S. Army Air...

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