OBITUARIES
Dr. Richard Scearce
Dec 7, 2017
Dr. Richard Ward Scearce August 6, 1929-December 7, 2017 Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Attended two years at the University of Kentucky. Graduate of USNA, Class of '53. Medically retired two years later. PHD of Biomedical Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill, 1976 Out of the Navy, Richard began his career as an engineer with Chrysler. We can thank him...
Charles Gibbs
Dec 6, 2017
Charles Olian Gibbs, Jr., ("C. O.") of Durham, NC, 81, passed away on December 6, 2017. C. O. was born in Engelhard, Hyde County, NC, to Charles Olian Gibbs and Caddie Delle Pledger Gibbs on January 6, 1936. C. O. graduated from John Nichols High School, Oxford Orphanage in 1955. His senior yearbook, The Log, records his mantra as,...
Joyce Harper
Dec 5, 2017
Chapel Hill, NC- Mrs. Joyce Marie Harper, 73, died Tuesday December 5, 2017 at the SECU Jim & Betsey Bryan Hospice Home in Pittsboro, NC. Joyce was born to the late Walden Howard Swenson and Pauline Fenton Swenson on July 16, 1944 in Concordia Kansas. She was raised in rural Kansas where the heartland values of honor, honesty, and...
William Porterfield
Dec 4, 2017
William Forrest “Bill” Porterfield died peacefully at home on December 4, 2017. Bill was born on September 19, 1932 in Northern Orange County. He was the son of William Herman Porterfield and Eva Taylor Porterfield. He graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1950. In February 1951 he began a 39 year career with Western Electric-AT&T. Bill was promoted to...
Charles Hodson
Dec 2, 2017
Charles Bernard “Chuck” Hodson II, 64, of Mebane, NC died December 2, 2017 surrounded by friends and family at Hock Family Pavilion in Durham. A native of Chapel Hill, Chuck served in the US Army before dedicating 30+ years to UNC Hospitals as a lab technician. Retirement afforded him the time to pursue his great love of music, playing...
Anthony Linthicum
Nov 26, 2017
Anthony Todd Linthicum lived and loved with his whole heart, demonstrating a generosity of spirit that knew no bounds. He passed away unexpectedly, at the age of 55, on November 26, 2017 at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. Anthony was born on November 17, 1962, in Durham, NC, to the late Hill Edward (Ed) Linthicum, Jr., and...
Rose Kiehart
Nov 24, 2017
Rose “Kitty” Moschowsky Kiehart passed away on November 24, 2017 at home surrounded by family, a little more than two months shy of her 101st birthday. Born January 31, 1917 in New York City, she attended Manhattan public schools and graduated as an RN from New Rochelle School of Nursing. She married Paul Peter Kiehart in 1940. She was...
Adeline Reed
Nov 23, 2017
Adeline Reed, 89, died Thursday November 23, 2017 at The Arbor, Galloway Ridge in Pittsboro. Arrangements are pending.
Eleanor Kobza
Nov 23, 2017
Mrs. Eleanor Virginia Kobza, 97, died Thursday morning, November 23, 2017 at UNC Hospital - Hillsborough. Mrs. Kobza is survived by her dauther, Sharon Bunzendahl, and her husband, Hartwig, of Chapel Hill. Mrs. Kobza's ashes will be entombed next to her husband at St. Adelbart's Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI.
Hugh Westray, Jr
Nov 22, 2017
Ty Westray died peacefully at the VA Medical Center Hospice Unit on November 22, 2017 due to inoperable cholangiocarcinoma. He was 68 years of age. Ty was born to Hugh and Margery Westray on September 5, 1949 in Goldsboro, NC. The family moved to Chapel Hill in 1960, where Ty attended Phillips Junior High and Chapel Hill High School,...
Steven Walls
Nov 22, 2017
Steven Michael Walls, artist, father and friend, died in a car accident on November 22, 2017 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the age of 46. He was born May 21, 1971 to Judith Walls-Fair and David Walls in Palo Alto, California. Steven’s impact on this world is undeniable, and there is evidence of this everywhere. His big heart,...
Milton Blackwood
Nov 20, 2017
Chapel Hill - Mr. Milton Evander Blackwood passed away on November 20, 2017 at his home. Milton was the son of the late William and Elizabeth Blackwood. He was born on a family farm in Chapel Hill on September 14, 1926. He entered the US Navy in 1944, and served in the Pacific during World War II. He later...
Coleen Barbour
Nov 19, 2017
Humble, generous, and one of God's most devoted and faithful servants, Coleen Parker Barbour, age 80, went to be with the Lord on November 19, 2017 after a courageous journey with cancer. She was born on February 2, 1937 in Orange County and was the daughter of the late Ira Lee Parker, Sr. and Ruby Combs Parker. Mrs. Barbour...
Vernon Hill
Nov 17, 2017
Vernon Ivalee Hill, 86, of Raleigh passed away Friday, Nov 17, 2017 and has been taken home by his precious Lord and Savior. Born in Carrboro, NC on March 5, 1931 and the youngest of six brothers and sisters, he was the son of the late Herbert and Velna Hill of Carrboro. He is survived by a brother, William...
Shirley Clark
Nov 12, 2017
Shirley Tillman Clark was a native of Durham. She was born on September 13, 1927 and was the daughter of late Cleveland Wilson Tillman and Lillie Horner Tillman. She passed away November 12, 2017 at the Presbyterian Home of Hawfields after several months of declining health. As well as being a mother, she worked for many years in retail...
Roberta Black
Nov 11, 2017
Roberta Callison Black passed away peacefully at 3:30 am on November 11, 2017 in her home amidst her family. She was born in Albany, New York on April 30, 1939 to Eugene H. Callison, architect, and his wife Theodosia Burr, landscape architect. Her early years were spent in and around Hamden, Connecticut. After graduating from Hamden High School, she...
Beverly Rodgers
Nov 10, 2017
Beverly Rodgers, 80, passed away November 10, 2017, after bravely enduring the slow march of dementia. She is survived by her son, Jeff Bray (Claudia), daughter, Marsha Bray Krzyzewski (Ken), grandson, Jake Krzyzewski, sister, Irma Gesche (LeRoy) and nieces Donna Marzolf and Jenny Gesche. She was predeceased by her parents Claudius Bernard Scott and Reba Lea Mitchell Scott, husband...
Bradford Jensen
Nov 7, 2017
Bradford Lee Jensen, 66, of Chapel Hill died Tuesday November 07, 2017. Arrangements pending.
Leita Crabtree
Nov 4, 2017
Leita Crabtree passed away peacefully at home with family on November 4, 2017 just shy of her 100th birthday. She lived the last 9 years with son Barry Crabtree, wife Laurie, grand-twins Wyatt and Kit along with Herbie and Mochi. Leita was born in Atlanta GA in 1918, raised in Norlina and her adult life in Carroboro. Before retirement...
James Dostert
Nov 4, 2017
James Howard Dostert, age 75, died of heart failure on November 4, 2017 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Jim was born on February 14, 1942 in Spokane, Washington to the late John and Ruth Dostert. Jim graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane in 1960 and attended Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, earning a Bachelor's Degree...
