Obituaries
R. Wensell Grabarek
Dec 15, 2019
R. Wensell Grabarek, 100, died peacefully at his Durham home on Sunday, December 15, 2019. Wense was born to Albert aneelizabeth Grabarek in Luzerne, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1919. Wense served as mayor of Durham from 1963-1971, a time of significant social and civic growth. He appreciated that Durham gave him the opportunity to lead the city in voluntary commercial...
Kathy King
Dec 12, 2019
Kathy King, 60 of Durham, North Carolina, passed away December 12, 2019.?? She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, daughter of LeRoy and Mary King.?? She attended the Uneersity of Missouri-Kansas City aneearned a Master???s in Education Administration.?? Kathy lived in Durham, North Carolina for 18 years and was a financial analyst at the Uneersity of North Carolina. She is...
William (Bill) W. Barrow, Jr.
Dec 9, 2019
William (Bill) W. Barrow Jr., age (94), went to be with his Lord on Monday, December 9, 2019. He was born on July 28, 1925 to the late William and Gladys Barrow. Mr. Barrow was born in Clinton, NC but lived most of his life in Durham, NC attending Durham High School. He worked for the Herald Suneewspaper Engraving Department...
Peter Paul Sedlak
Dec 5, 2019
Peter Paul Sedlak died December 5, 2019. Peter was born in Glen Cove, NY on July 31, 1931 to the late Steven and Mary Sedlak. Peter lived in Locust Valley, NY until 2014 whenee moved to Durham, NC. Peter was a 1949 graduate of Glen Cove High School. On neember 25,1951 he married Dorothy Sumcizk. Dorothy and Peter remained married...
Mary Frances Walker
Nov 25, 2019
DURHAM – Mary Frances Walker, aged 65, died November 25th, 2019 of ovarian cancer at her home in Durham, surrounded by family and friends (those she loved and who loved her). She was born December 29th 1953 in Johnstown Pennsylvania to William Fay Walker and Louise Walker. As a young girl, Mary was known as “Sis”, and was the surrogate...
Celestia Bishop Ray
Oct 30, 2019
Celestia??Bishop Ray went to her heavenly home on October 30, 2019 after a brief illness.??She is??now??with her Lord and Savior??and??able to see, hear,??and walk??again.????She was 101.?? Celestia??was born in Durham, N.C. on April 30, 1918. She resided in Durham her entire life with the last 11 years being with her daughter. She was deeply committed??to her??family,??friends,??faith,??home, and pets. During her...
William Ronald "Ronee" Parham
Oct 28, 2019
William Ronald "Ronee" Parham, 59 years old, of Oxford, NC died Monday, October 28, 2019.?? He was born in Vance County on June 27, 1960 to his late parents, Lewis William Parham and Ruby Capps Parham. ??He met and married his high school sweetheart, Angela Wilkins and started a family. Ronee was a man of many friends and talents.?? He...
Dorothy Spicer Harward
Oct 28, 2019
Dorothy Spicer Harward passed away on October 28, 2019, at the Pavilion in Croasdaile Village in Durham, NC. Dorothy (Dot) was born in Durham, NC, on May 17, 1929. Except for a few years in Richmond, VA, her family resided in Durham where she participated in Girl Scouts and graduated from Bragtown High School in 1947. Dot graduated from Duke...
Debra Ann Green
Oct 28, 2019
Debra Ann Green, 51, of Oxford, NC died Monday, October 28, 2019.?? She was born in Granville County oneecember 6, 1967 to Ann Smith Parrott and the late Elbert R. Parrott. Debra was academically gifted aneexcelled in high school and college and graduated with a degree in Accounting and became a CPA.?? The loves of her life were her son,...
Anee Brown "Brownie" Smith
Oct 28, 2019
Anee Brown ???Brownie??? Smith passed away on Monday, October 28, 2019 at Transitions LifeCare in Raleigh, NC. She was born on August 3, 1933 in Statesville, NC to the late William Glenn McClelland and Anee Long Brown McClelland. She graduated from UNC Greensboro with a B.S. in Elementary Education. She taught in Roanee, VA for two years and in Durham,...
Inez Grady Tatum
Oct 21, 2019
December 13, 1923 ??? October 21, 2019 Inez Grady Tatum passed away of natural causes at home on Monday October 21, 2019. Born to Arthur Grady and Sarah Grady in Albertson, Duplin County, NC; brothers McKinley Grady, Bruce Grady, and sister Frances Cash. Inez graduated from B.F. Grady High School, Duplin County in 1942 where she played on the basketball...
Peggy Farrell Barbee
Oct 15, 2019
DURHAM-Peggy Farrell Barbee, 86, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Durham on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. She was born in Chatham County on June 14, 1933 to the late Hal and Inez Farrell. Peggy graduated from Durham High School, and attended Greensboro School for Women, where she graduated with an associate degree ineecretarial and accounting. Peggy was a longtime...
Betty Beck Melvin
Oct 14, 2019
DURHAM ???Betty Beck Melvin, age 89, passed away surrounded by her family on October 14, 2019. She was born on May 1, 1930 to Robert and Mary Strickland Beck. Mrs. Melvin joined her husband ineeaven on their 68th wedding anneersary. She was a member of Greystone Church and voluneered at the caring center at First Baptist church. She will be...
Audrey Rose Harlow
Oct 12, 2019
Audrey Rose Harlow passed away on October 12, 2019 ineer 85th year.?? She was born and raised in White Plains N.Y., the daughter of Arthur Rose of New York City and Julia Keeler Rose of South Salem, N.Y. She attended the White Plains, New York Schools. In 1949 the family moved to Elmsford, N.Y. and Audrey graduated from Alexander Hamilton...
Patricia Deane Sullivan
Oct 10, 2019
Patricia Deane Sullivan, age 75, died October 10, 2019 at Sanford Health & Rehab. She was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia oneecember 2, 1943 to the late Daniel aneedith Sullivan. Patricia is survived by her daughter, Lee Whitworth and brother, Michael Sullivan. A memorial service will be held at the chapel of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service on Thursday, October 17, 2019...
Robert Joseph Hilton
Oct 7, 2019
Robert Joseph Hilton, died peacefully Monday, October 7, 2019 at Galloway Ridge Retirement Community in Pittsboro, N.C. He was born on neember 26, 1927 in Hawthorne, New Jersey Bob was married to the late Genevieve Hilton for 58 years. He was a Principal in the Glen Rock School System and retired in 1990. Bob and his family lived in Glen...
Joseph Claxton Harris Jr.
Oct 1, 2019
Joseph Claxton Harris, Jr. (Claxton), age 90, residing in Chapel Hill, NC (formerly from Durham), passed away peacefully on October 1, 2019 at UNC Hospice in Pittsboro after being in home hospice for an extensive time. Claxton was born in Washington, NC on August 1, 1929 to Joseph Claxton Harris, Sr. and Virginia Swindell Harris. Claxton graduated from Durham High...
Charles C. Leverett (Chuck)
Oct 1, 2019
Charles C. Leverett (Chuck) went to be with the Lord Jesus on Tuesday, October 1, 2019.?? Born in Missouri in 1925, he graduated from Middletown (MO) High School in 1943.?? He worked on his family farm in his youth and taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in the fall of 1943.?? In 1944 he was drafted into the U.S. Army...
Nathaniel Wilson "Nat" Coffin
Sep 15, 2019
Nathaniel Wilson ("Nat") Coffin passed away at Duke Hospital on Sunday September 15, 2019 after a brief illness. Nat was born on May 8, 1943 in Durham, North Carolina, and was the eldest son of Edwin Wilson Coffin and Viola Faucette Coffin. Nat was an accomplished athlete and was a member of the track team at Durham High School. He...
Irene Taylor Boykin
Sep 15, 2019
Irene Taylor Boykin, 93, of Oxford, NC died Sunday, September 15, 2019.?? She was born in Granville County on May 1, 1926 to Jesse and Maggie (Whitehurst) Clement. After marriage to James (Jim) William Boykin, the couple loved in Sanford, N.C. for a few years and returned to Granville County and lived out their remaining years. Irene is survived by...
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