Obituaries
Haywood Dail Holderness, Jr.
Jun 18, 2022
Haywood Holderness of Durham, NC passed away at the Rosewood Health Center in Raleigh. His heart belonged to his wife, his family, the city of Durham, and an old beach cabin named Casablanca.
Haywood was born December 28, 1939, to Dail and Nancy Holderness. He graduated from Woodberry Forest High School in 1958, earned his B.A. degree at the University of...
Malachy Jerome Foley
Jun 16, 2022
Malachy Jerome Foley, son of the late John P. Foley, Jr., and Margaret T. Schmidt Foley, was born in Belleville, Illinois, on December 25, 1944, and passed away peacefully at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, surrounded by family on June 16, 2022. He battled ALS an amazing 12 years and was alert and carrying on conversations until the...
Jessie Keen Sumrell
Jun 14, 2022
Jessie Keen Sumrell, 76, of Oxford, went home to be with the Lord Tuesday, June 14, 2022. She peacefully left this earthly life surrounded by her loving family.
A memorial service to celebrate her life will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. on July 1, 2022, at Oxford Baptist Church, 147 Main Street, Oxford, NC. Inurnment will follow at the church...
Mary Ellen Thorp
Jun 11, 2022
Oxford—
Mary Ellen Thorp, age 87, died peacefully at home on June 11, 2022. She was born on February 22, 1935, to her late parents, Edward Bruce Williams and Ethel Phillips Williams in Greene County, North Carolina.
She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Henry N. Thorp Jr.; her children, Ellen Thorp Haulsee (Scott) Pinehurst N.C., Norman Thorp...
Ellen O'Brien
Jun 11, 2022
Ellen Curley O’Brien, 79, of Chapel Hill, NC, died on June 11, 2022. She was born in Boston, MA on May 25, 1943, to the late Edward and Loretta (Fitzgerald) Curley. Her grandparents were born in Ireland. She graduated from Notre Dame High School and Stonehill College. She spent her career as a social worker in Quincy, MA, selflessly serving...
Penny Curran
Jun 8, 2022
Penny Blackwood Curran died June 8, 2022. She was born on November 5, 1947 in Durham, NC to the late George Marvin Blackwood and Sarah Oliver Blackwood.
Penny is survived by her brother Steve (Carolyn) Blackwood, her children John (Jade) Goswick, Anne (Joseph) Browning, and her grandchildren Alexis Goswick, Cole Goswick, Patrick Browning, and Marleigh Goswick.
She will be remembered as a...
Sandra Bolick Moura
Jun 4, 2022
Sandra Bolick Moura was cherished by all who knew her.
Beloved wife of Bob, adored mother of Ashley, Andrea and Alex. Devoted mother-in-law to Barry, Matt and Katherine. Loving grandmother of Bear, Alexandra, Wells, Henry, Turner and River.
Sandi died peacefully in her husband’s arms at home following a courageous battle with melanoma. She was a beautiful person with a heart of...
James Leslie Spore
Jun 3, 2022
James (Jim) Leslie Spore of Calabash, North Carolina passed away on Friday June 3rd, 2022, after spending time surrounded by his loving wife, son and daughter at the age of 77. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends who experienced his kindness, sense of humor, and absolute joy of living.
Jim was born on November 25th, 1944...
Lewis Deveaux Blake , Iii
Jun 2, 2022
Durham – Lewis D. Blake III, age 75, died at home on June 2, 2022 after acourageous battle with cancer. He was born on November 2, 1946 to the lateAlice H. Blake and Lewis D. Blake Jr.Lewis attended Belton High School in Belton, South Carolina, ClemsonUniversity, and received his MA in Mathematics from Duke University in 1978.Prior to attending Duke,...
William Clayton Strickland
May 31, 2022
Oxford
William “Clayton” Strickland, age 82, died on May 31, 2022. He was born on April 2, 1940, to his late parents, William Ennis Strickland and Varistine Bowden Strickland in Wake County and then later moved to Butner.
He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Mary Moss Strickland; his sister, Janet Miller (David) and family; his daughter, Georgette...
Timothy Neil Horne
May 30, 2022
Indian Beach -Timothy Neil Horne was a loving father, grandfather, brother and friend. He left this world suddenly on May 30th, 2022 at the age of 57, in his happiest place on earth, Indian Beach, North Carolina.
Tim was born on February 9, 1965 in Burlington to the late Jerry Lane Horne and Teresa Catherine Horne (Keyser). He loved being outside...
Steven Douglas Breedlove
May 29, 2022
Stem
Steven Douglas Breedlove, age 65, died peacefully on Sunday, May 29, 2022, in his home. He was the son of the late Elliott Franklin Breedlove and Margaret Frazier Breedlove. Steve was born in Granville County on September 1, 1956.
Steve was a man that believed in hard work. Long hours and calloused hands, but he loved his family and community....
Dorothy O'Brien
May 28, 2022
After a long and fully lived life, it is with sad but full hearts that we share the loss of our dear mom, Dorothy Winston Strother O’Brien, better known to most as Dot.
She died of natural causes in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday May 28th, 2022, in Durham.
She was just shy of celebrating her 93rd birthday this...
John James Mcandrew
May 27, 2022
John James McAndrew passed away on May 27, 2022, in Durham, NC. He was born on May 2, 1937, to Katherine and Martin McAndrew in New Rochelle, NY. John grew up in a happy and active family surrounded by loving siblings (Joe, Buddy, Maureen, Mike, and Chris) and an even larger number of foster children his parents welcomed into their...
Eugenia Kathleen Simons
May 26, 2022
Mrs. Eugenia England Simons, 82, formerly of Oxford, died Thursday, May 26, 2022, at Trinity Oaks in Salisbury. A native of Ashland, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Lynwood Earl and Kathleen Wilkinson England, and loving sister to Frances Lee England. She was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Salisbury.
Funeral services will be Saturday, June 4,...
Ricky Tharrington, Jr.
May 26, 2022
Perry Rickman Tharrington, Jr. died on May 26, 2022. He is survived by his wife Jewell Brinkley Tharrington, son Perry Rickman Tharrington, III and wife Helen, daughter Julie Tharrington Hardison and husband Tom, granddaughters Austin Tharrington Cox and husband David, Jessie Tharrington Mull and husband Robert, grandsons Thomas Tharrington Hardison and Edward Coley Hardison, great- granddaughter Coley Marie Cox, and...
Mary Jane Harvey
May 25, 2022
Durham, NC – Mary Jane “MJ” Harvey, age 94, died on May 25, 2022, in Durham, North Carolina. She was born on July 30, 1927, to the late Thomas Aloysius and Helen Maguire Shaw.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Garden City, NY. Mary Jane moved to Durham in 2017 after living in Las Vegas, NV, for 38...
George Ogden Cummings
May 23, 2022
Durham, NC – George O. Cummings, age 75, died in Durham, NC on May 23, 2022. He was born on December 21, 1946 to the late George H. and Norva T. Cummings.
George graduated from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and received his Masters degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. He worked for many years for...
Lawrence Carlton Moore , Jr.
May 23, 2022
Lawrence Carlton Moore, Jr., age 83, died at Duke Hospital on May 23rd, 2022.
Lawrence, or “Lang” as he was mostly known, was born April 6th, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the late Willie Prince Moore and Lawrence Carlton Moore, Sr of Mississippi. He had an older sister, the late Anne Burney. The family moved to Charlotte, NC in 1951 where...
Jo Ann Bowman
May 20, 2022
Jo Ann Dellinger Bowman, age 85, died on May 20, 2022. She was born on October 10, 1936 to the late Lillie Mae Dellinger and Howard Benfield in Avery County, NC. In 1972, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She went on to become the head of the...
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