Obituaries

Feb 23, 2021

Mark Ahrendsen, 69, retired Transportation Director for the City of Durham, passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 surrounded by his loving family. Mark lived life to the fullest, despite being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer more than four years ago. He enjoyed retirement and, prior to the pandemic, traveled extensively with his wife Cathy exploring the country...

Feb 22, 2021

Oxford To watch the video, please go to the TRIBUTE WALL on Gentry-Newell & Vaughan Website page for this obituary and click on the video link. Dan Vickers Noblin, age 83, died on February 22, 2021 at Duke Medical Center. He was the son of the late Robert Marsh Noblin and M. Maude Breedlove. Dan was born in Granville County...

Feb 18, 2021

John Thomas Kerr, III, age 95 died in his sleep in his residence at Durham Regent Apartments in Durham on Thursday, February 18, 2021. He was born in Durham on March 5, 1925. John’s mother, Eleanor Browning Kerr, and his father, John Thomas Kerr II, were Durham natives and members of First Presbyterian Church, and John was on the church’s...

Feb 17, 2021

Click here to view the Livestream service. Henry Charles Halboth, Jr. crossed the bar in commencement of his last voyage on February 17, 2021, in Durham, NC, in the firm belief that he was embarking on the greatest adventure of all. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, on February 22, 1924, the only son of the late Henry C. and...

Feb 16, 2021

William “Bill” Sublett Christian, age 88, died on February 16, 2021 following a period of declining health. He was born on April 21, 1932. He was the third child to the late Nellie and Dennis Christian, following his sister Elizabeth, born in 1920 and his brother, Richard, born in 1924. Bill attended Durham Schools and was especially fond of Durham...

Feb 16, 2021

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Feb 15, 2021

DURHAM – Marguerite Agnes Tracy, age 103, died at her daughter’s residence in Durham, NC on February 15, 2021 surrounded by her family. She was born on February 12, 1918 to the late Thomas Doody and Marie Sheehan. Marguerite was born in Preble, NY and after finishing high school, she later became an owner of a hair salon. She was...

Feb 15, 2021

Click here to view the Livestream service. Dr. Richard Lionel Predmore Jr. passed from this life on February 15, 2021 at his home in upstate SC. He was 77. Richard retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina. He was a professor of literature at University of South Carolina Upstate for many years where he served...

Feb 14, 2021

Creedmoor, NC Joseph Martin “Marty” Crews left his life on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at the age of 61. He was born and raised in Granville County, the youngest son of the late Edgar Reid “Buddy” and Barbara Breedlove Crews. Marty graduated from South Granville High School, class of 1978, then earned an Associates Degree from Stanley Technical College, Albemarle,...

Feb 14, 2021

Bullock, NC On February 14, 2021, Eugenia “Jean” D. Timberlake went peacefully and gracefully to join her husband of 69 years, Jerry Timberlake, Jr. in their heavenly home. Jean was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia to the late Marvin S. Douglas and Pearl E. Douglas on March 18, 1925. She went to business school in Richmond, Virginia, where she met...

Feb 14, 2021

Psalm 40:1-3a I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to...

Feb 14, 2021

Marguerite (Rita) Lovett Robbins passed peacefully during the morning of February 14 in her Chapel Hill home. Born in Columbia, SC in 1943, Rita grew up in Rutherfordton, NC, as the first of six children. Rita attended Mars Hill College and graduated from UNC Women’s College (now UNC-Greensboro) in 1965, and she married Samuel B. McLamb, Jr. During his military...

Feb 13, 2021

Blanche Bussell Brewer Bragg August 13, 1925-February 13, 2021 Blanche Brewer Bragg, age 95, died Saturday, February 13 at her residence in the Pavilion at Croasdaile Village in Durham. She was born August 13, 1925 to the late P.M. and Ida Bussell in Durham. Blanche was a graduate of Durham High School, received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, and...

Feb 11, 2021

Click here to view the Livestream service. (PITTSBORO, NC) – Philip Austin Stadter, age 84, died on February 11, 2021. He was born on November 29, 1936 to the late Mary Louise Jones Stadter and John Martin Stadter. Philip (A.B. Princeton 1958, Ph.D. Harvard 1962) served in the UNC Classics department from 1962 to 2003, ending his career as Eugene...

Feb 10, 2021

Oxford, NC Mary Helen Daniel Talbott, age 76, died on February 10, 2021. She was born to the late Graham Howerton Daniel and Helen Averette Daniel on December 20, 1944 in Granville County. Mary Helen was born and raised in the community of Berea and attended Fuller’s Business School, where she graduated and then went to work as an Administrative...

Feb 9, 2021

Click here to view the Livestream service Janice Sue Brown Reed, 64, died February 9, 2021 at Stonerise Clarksburg in Clarksburg, WV of sepsis related complications. Sue was born December 14, 1956 in Buckhannon, WV. She graduated from Buckhannon Upshur High School in 1974 and in 1982 graduated nursing school as an LPN. Much of her career was devoted to...

Feb 5, 2021

Click here to view the Livestream service Patricia Weaver Goodwin, 81, of Pace, Florida died Friday February 5. 2021 at Santa Rosa Medical facility from COVID-19. She was born on April 15, 1939 in Durham, N.C. to the late Woodrow H. and Ruby Hight Weaver. Pat was a member of the Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Pat was a...

Feb 5, 2021

Chapel Hill, NC -- Richard Lucas McCann, age 72, died on February 5, 2021. He was born in Portland, Maine to Marcelle Lucas McCann and Richard Edman McCann. He grew up in Yarmouth, Maine and graduated from Yarmouth High School in 1966. As a youth, he played several sports and especially enjoyed skiing and also sailing in Casco Bay with...

Feb 4, 2021

Samuel” Bo” W. Hunt of Granville County passed away on February 4, 2021 at the age of 91. He is the son of the late Mrs. Mary Jeanette Elam Hunt and Charles Bryant Hunt, Sr. and the husband of the late Dorothy Lois Hunt. He was a retired local tobacco farmer, a vendor with Buckhorn Flea Market and Oxford Farmers...

Feb 1, 2021