Obituaries

Dr. Leon Jackson Smith, Jr.

Dr. Leon Jackson Smith, Jr.

Jul 8, 2018

DURHAM - Dr. Leon Jackson Smith, Jr. age 87, passed away Sunday morning July 8, 2018. He was a resident of Pruitt-Health and former resident of JFK Towers Senior Apartments. Born in McComb, Mississippi, Leon was the only child of the late Leon Jackson Smith, Sr. and Hazel Gertrud Oliver Smith. Leon graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, MS and...

John Holt

John Holt

Jul 3, 2018

CHAPEL HILL - John Ray Holt, 89, of Chapel Hill N.C. died peacefully on July 3rd, 2018 after a prolonged struggle with heart and kidney failure. He was born and raised in Old Fort, N.C. and was the son of the late John Bratcher Holt and Lavada Sutton Holt. Holt. John was a graduate of North Carolina State Uneersity and...

Roberta Ann Addison

Roberta Ann Addison

Jul 3, 2018

DURHAM-Roberta Ann Sims Addison passed away at 11:43pm on July 3, 2018 at her home. She was a devoted Christian and is now rejoicing with her Lord and Savior and all her loved ones who preceded her ineeath, especially her dear mother who died when Roberta was only 18 years old. In 1959, she married Daniel Stevens Addison. From this...

Nelson Manley Farrell

Nelson Manley Farrell

Jul 3, 2018

Oxford, NC Nelson Manley Farrell, 77 years old, unexpectedly died on July 3, 2018. He was the son of the late Nelson James Farrell and Jessie Elizabeth Singleton of Aberdeen, Maryland. Nelson was born and raised in Aberdeen, Maryland and moved to Oxford, North Carolina, 16 years ago to be close to his family, with his wife. Nelson was an...

Nelson Manley Farrell

Nelson Manley Farrell

Jul 3, 2018

Oxford, NC Nelson Manley Farrell, 77 years old, unexpectedly died on July 3, 2018.?? He was the son of the late Nelson James Farrell and Jessie Elizabeth Sineeton of Aberdeen, Maryland. Nelson was born and raised in Aberdeen, Maryland and moved to Oxford, North Carolina, 16 years ago to be close to his family, with his wife. ??Nelson was an...

Ivette Del Carmen Marrero Matos

Ivette Del Carmen Marrero Matos

Jun 30, 2018

Ivette Del Carmen Marrero Matos, 59, died peacefully at Duke Hospital on Saturday, June 30th, 2018 after years of bravely surviving and fighting against cancer.?? Born July 6th, 1958 in Coamo, Puerto Rico, she lived her early years in Puerto Rico, where she graduated from the Uneersity of Puerto Rico and beganeer professional life as a medical technologist. In 1983,...

Diane Sullivan

Diane Sullivan

Jun 30, 2018

Diane Fay Sullivan, nee Novasio, died June 30, 2018 after a long struggle with COPD. She was born January 24, 1939 in Billings, Montana, the second of seven children born to Mary ???Scotty??? Scott and Floyd ???Pick??? Novasio. She graduated from Billings Central Catholic High School and Billings Business College. After a brief secretarial career in Billings, she married her...

Clinton "Pete" Weldon Capps, Jr.

Clinton "Pete" Weldon Capps, Jr.

Jun 29, 2018

Henderson Clinton "Pete Weldon Capps, Jr., age 90, of Henderson, died peacefully at home on June 29, 2018.He was born in Warren County on June 20, 1928, son of the late Lucy Shearin Capps and the late Clinton Weldon Capps, Sr. Pete was a heavy equipment operator by trade, an Army Veteran of the Korean War, and a proud 62-year...

Clinton "Pete" Weldon Capps, Jr.

Clinton "Pete" Weldon Capps, Jr.

Jun 29, 2018

Henderson Clinton ???Pete??? Weldon Capps, Jr., age 90, of Henderson, died peacefully at home on June 29, 2018.??He was born in Warren County on June 20, 1928, son of the late Lucy Shearin Capps and the late Clintoneeldon Capps, Sr. Pete was a heavy equipment operator by trade, an Army Veteran of the Korean War, and a proud 62-year Master...

William Lee Rodgers

William Lee Rodgers

Jun 29, 2018

William Lee Rodgers, 88, of Durham, passed away on June 29, 2018 following a lengthy illness. ???Bill??? has made Durham his home since retiring in 1968 after serving??23 years in the U.S. Navy and 10 years in the Naval Reserve.?? Upon moving to Durham he??established??the Dental Prosthetics Curriculum at Durham Community College??and coordineed that program for 26 years.????During that time...

Sheila Bohn Anderson

Sheila Bohn Anderson

Jun 29, 2018

Sheila Ruth Bohn Anderson passed away peacefully at home on June 29th, 2018, at the age of 71. She was borneeptember 19th, 1946 in Dubuque, Iowa, to Robert H. Bohn, Sr. aneeileen Lanaghan Bohn.?? After graduating from Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa, with a degree ineedical Technology in 1968, she worked in laboratories in Atlanta, Chicago, aneeurope, where she met...

Charles Edward Buckley Iii, M.D.

Charles Edward Buckley Iii, M.D.

Jun 29, 2018

Charles Edward Buckley III, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Duke Uneersity, passed away at the age of 88 on June 29, 2018 in Durham surrounded by his loving family. Ed was born in Charleston, WV oneeptember 2, 1929 to the late Charles Edward Buckley Jr. and Gladys Kuh Buckley. He graduated from Charleston High School at the age of...

Stanford "Stan" Owen Hulsey

Stanford "Stan" Owen Hulsey

Jun 28, 2018

Oxford, NC Stanford "Stan Owen Hulsey, 73 years old, unexpectedly died on June 28, 2018. He was the son of the late Lemuel O. Hulsey and Lola F. Hollingsworth Hulsey. Stan was born in Hattiesburg, MS and moved to Alabama at a very early age. He met and married his wife, Judy there and they were married in Birmingham, Alabama...

Stanford "Stan" Owen Hulsey

Stanford "Stan" Owen Hulsey

Jun 28, 2018

Oxford, NC Stanford ???Stan??? Owen Hulsey, 73 years old, unexpectedly died on June 28, 2018.?? He was the son of the late Lemuel O. Hulsey and Lola F. Hollingsworth Hulsey. Stan was born in Hattiesburg, MS and moved to Alabama at a very early age. He met and married his wife, Judy there and they were married in Birmingham, Alabama...

Richard Lawrence Walter

Richard Lawrence Walter

Jun 27, 2018

Richard Lawrence Walter died in Durham, NC oneednesday, June 27, 2018; he was at home surrounded by loving family. Richard was the youngest of five children, born to Marie Ann Boehmer and Lawrence Barnabus Walter on neember 1, 1933 in Chicago, IL. Richard grew up in Elmhurst, IL and attended Saint Procopius College (now Benedictine Uneersity) in Lisle, IL where...

James Fischer Trotter, Jr.

James Fischer Trotter, Jr.

Jun 23, 2018

James Fischer Trotter, Jr. October 23, 1938 to June 23, 2018 James Fischer Trotter, of Chapel Hill, passed away June 23 at his home. Born and raised ineeidsville, N.C, James was the son of the late James Fischer Trotter and Martha Neal Trotter.?? Educated in the Reidsville public schools, he graduated from Reidsville High School in 1956 and attended Hargrave...

Raymond Wayne Elliott

Raymond Wayne Elliott

Jun 23, 2018

Raymond Wayne Elliott, 65, of Oxford, NC died Saturday, June 23, 2018. He was the son of the late Raymond H. Elliott and Mozelle Hill Elliott. He was born in Granville County and has resided in Oxford where he worked as a Maintenance Mechanic with Ideal Fasteners for more than 42 years. Wayne grew up on the family farm and...

Raymond Wayneelliott

Raymond Wayneelliott

Jun 23, 2018

Raymond Wayneelliott, 65, of Oxford, NC died Saturday, June 23, 2018.?? He was the son of the late Raymond H. Elliott and Mozelle Hill Elliott.?? He was born in Granville County and has resided in Oxford where he worked as a Maintenance Mechanic with Ideal Fasteners for more than 42 years. Wayne grew up on the family farm and became...

Mary Alice Critcher Howard

Mary Alice Critcher Howard

Jun 20, 2018

Mary Alice Critcher Howard of Oxford, NC died peacefully oneer 93rd birthday, June 20, 2018 surrounded by family.?? She was born June 20, 1925 at the family home in Vance County, NC to the late Casper Percy Critcher and Lillian Fuller Critcher. Mary Alice is predeceased by her husband, Coolidge Hobgood Howard; and her sister, Charlotte Critcher Harris. Mary Alice...

Josie Roten Abernethy

Josie Roten Abernethy

Jun 20, 2018

Josie Roten Abernethy passed away peacefully on June 20, 2018 at 6:25 am. Josie was born on January 19, 1918 on a snowy winter morning in Glendale Springs, NC.?? She grew up in the North Carolina mountains and loved them her whole life.?? She graduated from Glade Valley High School and moved to Greensboro as an adult.?? There she met...

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