Obituaries
Helen Pashales Vurnees
Aug 5, 2019
Helen Pashales Vurnees, age 92, died peacefully on August 5, 2019 surrounded by her family. She was born April 3, 1927 in Clifton Forge, VA to the late James and Maria Pashales. Helen graduated from Clifton Forge High School and Kennedy Business School. She moved with her family to Durham in 1944, where her parents established the ABC Lunch, and...
Bessie Fuller Evans
Aug 5, 2019
Franklinton Bessie Fuller Evans, age 90, died on August 5, 2019 at Brantwood Nursing and Rehabilitationeenter. She was the daughter of the late Grady Fuller aneeunee Hayes Fuller.?? Bessie was born in Franklin County oneecember 26, 1928 and resided in Franklin and Granville County for many prosperous years with her late husband, William Lee Evans. Bessie was a homemaker and...
Yardley Elaine Schuyler
Aug 1, 2019
Yardley Elaine Schuyler passed away peacefully on August 1, 2019, after a brief illness.?? She was 86. She was the daughter of John Smullen and Bernee Davis and born oneecember 22, 1932.?? She was preceded ineeath by her first husband, William Leon Schultz, in 1959, and by her second husband, Philip Buckley Schuyler, in 1982. She is survived by her...
Pamela Elaine Gregory
Jul 31, 2019
DURHAM ??? Pamela ???Pam??? Elaine Gregory, 69, died July 31, 2019 at Murdoch Developmental Center. Pam is survived by her Godparents, Tommy and Carol Monk and several cousins. A graveside service will be held 1:00 PM Monday, August 5, 2019 at Maplewood Cemetery, Section 3 with Chaplin Brandon Rhodes officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Murdoch...
Olimbe Dackis Holt
Jul 31, 2019
Olimbe Dackis Holt, 92, died July 31, 2019 at her home ineest Columbia, South Carolina. Mrs. Holt was a Durham native and long time member of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church. The funeral service will be 10:00 AM Friday, August 9 at St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, Durham, with burial following in Woodlawneemorial Park. Friends may visit 6-8 PM Thursday,...
Harrell Tice
Jul 30, 2019
Harrell Davis Tice, 82, died July 30, 2019 at Croasdaile Pavilion. Harrell was born in Lilesville, N. C. On July 15, 1937 to Elizabeth Gaddy Tice and Darius A. Tice. He graduated from Oak Grove High School and Richmond Professional Institute. He worked as a commercial artist ineetail advertising artistic design. He served in the Virginia Air National Guard. Harrell...
Willou Wilson Jones
Jul 27, 2019
Willou Wilson Jones, age 79, passed away peacefully on July 27, 2019 surrounded by family.?? She was born on October 9, 1939, to John Emmitt Wilson and Minee Mae (Creech) Wilson of Durham, NC.?? Willou worked at McPherson Hospital for twenty years as a Records Room Clerk.?? Then worked at Research Trianee Institute as a Receptionist for fifteeneears where she...
Maurice Gentry Whitlow, Sr
Jul 26, 2019
Maurice Gentry Whitlow, age 74, of Oxford, NC, died at his residence on July 26, 2019. Maurice was the son of John E. Whitlow and Malvena Carter Whitlow and was born ineerson County on May 28, 1945. Maurice was born into the life of tobacco. He joined the Air Force as a young man and spent 18 months in Vietnam...
Margaret "Peggy" Eloise Reeve
Jul 22, 2019
DURHAM ??? Margaret "Peggy??? Eloise Reeve, age 67, died peacefully on July 22, 2019 surrounded by family. She was born oneeptember 5, 1951, to Delos Bartoneeeve and Marion Marsh Reeve. As a Navy brat, she was born in Trinidad and grew up in Italy, California, Hawaii, and Georgia. Perhaps her early exposure to beautiful places explains her lifelong love of...
Lourdina Paixao Camara Fernandes
Jul 21, 2019
Lourdina Paixao Camara Fernandes, age 89, died July 21, 2019 at Hock Family Pavilion, surrounded by family and friends. Lourdina was born and raised in Panjim, Goa. She later married in Bombay to Assumcao Trinidade Fernandes, raised two sons Joseph Fernandes (Rebecca) of Dallas, GA and Camillo Fernandes of Durham, NC. After her husband died, she moved to the USA...
Isidora Cruz Sevilla
Jul 16, 2019
Isidora ???Dory??? Cruz Sevilla, 90, passed peacefully to be with our Lord and Savior on July 16, 2019, at her home in Durham, surrounded by her loving family. Born in the Philippines on April 4, 1929, Dory was the second oldest of seven children and the matriarch of the Cruz clan.?? Ineer youth, she attended vocational school and became a...
Ned Newsom
Jul 15, 2019
Ned Newsom, 96, died on July 15, 2019, at his daughter???s home in Atlanta, Georgia, surrounded by his loving family.?? A lifelong resident of Durham, he was born on March 11, 1923, the youngest of seven children, to Anee Laurie Long Newsom and Marion Eugene Newsom. Ned graduated from Durham High School, Duke Uneersity, and North Carolina State Uneersity School...
Robert " Gene" Eugene Newcomb
Jul 15, 2019
Robert ???Gene??? Eugene Newcomb, 69, of Oxford, NC died Monday, July 15, 2019 at his home.?? He was born in Vance County on July 18, 1949 to his now predeceased parents, Robert Lee Newcomb aneevelyn (Riggan) Newcomb.?? He was the youngest of nee children. His military experience was extremely important to him. ??He served in the US Air Force where...
Audrey Rachel Rabalais
Jul 14, 2019
Audrey Rachel Rabalais, 73, passed away on July 14, 2019 in hospice care in Durham, NC after a short illness. Audrey was born on May 5, 1946 in Bunee, Louisiana to Lenee and James Rabalais. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics aneeducation at St. Mary???s Dominican College in 1968. She also matriculated into Trinity Evangelical Divinity...
Laura Myrtle Johnson May (Johnee)
Jul 14, 2019
Laura Myrtle Johnson May (Johnee) April 10, 1922-July 14, 2019 Even at the age of 97, Laura drove to the Durham Farmers??? Market bright aneearly on Saturday mornings shopping for fresh tomatoes and sweet corn.?? Her long life was marked by determination at every turn. Born in Walters, Virginia on a productive peanut farm in the spring of 1922, Laura...
Blanard "Bud" Currin
Jul 14, 2019
Wilson, NC Blanard ???Bud??? Currin, 88, died on July 14, 2019 at Wilsoneedical Center. Born to the late Allie Ray Currin and Nanee Adcock Currin oneeptember 14, 1930 in Granville County. Bud believed strongly in his church and loved his church family and community. He joined Hester Baptist Church at age 9 and was a dedicated member all his life.??...
Opal Marie Gallagher
Jul 12, 2019
Opal Marie Gallagher, 83 years, died on July 12, 2019 at Brantwood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center after a long battle of health issues. Born to the late Benjamin McElroy and Minee Mae McClintock McElroy on June 7, 1936 ineellaire, Ohio. Opal is survived by her children, Linda Turner (William Turner), Deanneest (Roger West), Veronica ???Vicky??? Williams (Dale Williams), Mary Elizabeth...
G. Michael "Mike" Miller, Jr.
Jul 10, 2019
G. Michael Miller, Jr. ???Mike,??? age 60, of Durham, NC, formerly of Dayton, Ohio, passed away on July 10, 2019 after courageously battling a series of health related issues for many years. Mike is survived by his loving parents, Carole and Gerald Miller, his sister, Kathy Miller Alpeter, and husband David Alpeter, Jr., their children; David III, Lineey and Alexandra,...
Katherine Mason Blalock
Jul 7, 2019
Katherine Mason Blalock, a resident of Granville County, North Carolina passed away at the age of 88 on July 7, 2019 at Duke Regional Hospital. Born Katherineelizabeth Mason to her parents, Windal White Mason and Beulah Agnes Grooms Mason oneebruary 7, 1931 in Pineview, NC in Harnett County.?? Katherine had two sisters Mary Winifred Mason Jones anee. Shirley Mason.?? She...
Dr. Wolfgang K. (Bill) Joklik
Jul 7, 2019
DURHAM ??? Dr. Wolfgang Karl (Bill) Joklik, born in Vienna, Austria on neember 16, 1926 died peacefully on Sunday July 7, 2019. The older of the two sons of Karl Friedrich and Helene Joklik, Bill moved, whenee was eleveneears old, to Sydney, Australia, where his father headed the Australian branch of the Austrian company Styrian Steelworks. He attended Cranbrook School...
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