OBITUARIES
Margaret Packard
Oct 14, 2017
Margaret Susan Davis Packard died peacefully at Hospice Home in Burlington, NC on October 14, 2017 at the age of 91. She is survived by sons Michael (Cherie) Packard, Billy (Gladys) Packard, daughter Pat (Fred) Conner, Grandchildren Elizabeth (Todd) Conner Jones, Laura May Conner (Neil Doss), Emily Williams (Allison Kendall), Catherine (Matt) Helm, Billy and Chris Packard and great-grandchildren...
Margaret Gibson
Oct 12, 2017
Mrs. Margaret Montgomery Gibson (Peg), wife of the late Col. Baylor Price Gibson Jr., died October, 12th, 2017. Mrs. Gibson was born March the 26, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pa. to the late Brigadier General and Mrs. Edward A. Montgomery of Augusta, Georgia. Margaret (Peg) grew up as "a Marine brat" moving as her father moved from duty station to...
Eric Gibson
Oct 12, 2017
Eric Dana Gibson died unexpectedly on October 12, 2017 in Chapel Hill. Eric was born in 1963 to the late Col. Baylor Price Gibson, Jr., and Margaret Montgomery Gibson. He received his BA in Teaching and his Masters in History from Northwestern University. Shortly after he completed his education, he became disabled. He has a passion for Art and...
William Ray
Oct 11, 2017
Obituary for William Calvin Ray William Calvin Ray, 90, of Cedar Grove, NC, passed away on October 11, 2017. He was born in Red Springs, NC on April 22, 1927 and grew up in Pender County. Bill moved to Orange County in 1948 to work as a fixer in Efland Hosiery Mill. He started dairy farming in 1954 and...
Charles Galatioto
Oct 10, 2017
Mr. Charles Anthony Galatioto died Tuesday morning at Beacon Place in Greensboro, NC. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, on Friday, October 13, 2017 at 2:00 pm. The family will receive visitors Thursday evening from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at Walker's Funeral Home in Chapel Hill. A full obituary will be...
Ronald Tanner
Oct 9, 2017
Ronald L Tanner, 72, died Monday October 9, 2017 in Pittsboro. Arrangements pending. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is serving the Tanner family.
Whitney Darrow Jackson
Oct 8, 2017
Chapel Hill - Ms. Whitney Meeran Darrow Jackson, 29, died unexpectedly in Whiteville, NC on Sunday, October 8, 2017. Whitney was born in Pusan City, South Korea. She was the daughter of Craig R. and Deanne D. Jackson, and the sister of Jonathan Jackson. She attended Chapel Hill High School and was currently working towards her CNA certificate and...
Anne Dibartolo
Oct 7, 2017
Mrs. Anne Teresa DiBartolo, age 74, died on October 7, 2017. Funeral services will be at 10:00 AM on October 10, 2017 at St. Thomas More Catholic Church. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is honored to serve the DiBartolo family.
Corena Johnson
Oct 4, 2017
Corena Maileece Johnson was born January 20, 1998 and passed on October 4, 2017 as a result of a car accident. She was a full time student at ACC working toward becoming a pediatric neurological psychiatrist, since before completing high school. I often often compared her intellect to that of Einstein. She could have taken a full ride at...
Jack Chestnut
Oct 2, 2017
Jack Steven Chestnut, 72, of Hillsborough, NC, died on the morning of October 2, 2017. Jack was born and raised in Ohio. He moved to Missouri for his senior year of high school to live with his older brother, Charlie. While working at a department store, he met the woman he would later marry, Merry. After high school, Jack...
Kwong Ling
Oct 2, 2017
Rose Ling Kwong Tiu, age 82, was called home by the Lord on Oct 2, 2017 in Carrboro, NC. Rose was born on Aug 1, 1935, in Southeast Asia (Sibu, Sarawak) to Ling Ung Chong and Loi Hong King. She was married to Thomas Ha in 1961 for 3 years before she was widowed. She is survived by her...
Patricia Compton
Sep 29, 2017
Patricia Mize Compton Patricia "Pat" Mize Compton died on September 29th, 2017 surrounded by her beloved family. She was eighty years old. Pat was born in Daytona Beach, Florida to Ardelia and R. H. Mize. She attended Seabreeze High School, and High Point College where she received a BA in Music. A life long learner, she later earned a...
Rosalind Harrell
Sep 27, 2017
Rosalind Knott Harrell was born on May 23rd, 1929 just after her twin sister, Rebecca (McKinley), on a farm in Granville Country, near Oxford, North Carolina. Her father, Sam Lee Knott, and mother, Lois Daniel Knott worked very hard during those years of the Depression to provide for their four children, including brothers Fred and Sam Jr.,a.k.a."Chet." They provided...
Joseph Vitali
Sep 27, 2017
Chapel Hill - Mr. Joseph Steven Vitali passed away peacefully at the age of 80 after a long illness. Joseph was born to the late Joseph Luciano and Marie Carmella Camerino on December 26, 1936 in Rome, New York. Joseph was employed with the US Air Force as a Radar Repairman, based at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome,...
Frederick Porter
Sep 25, 2017
Obituary Frederick Ross Porter Frederick Ross Porter, 76 of Chapel Hill, NC passed away Monday, September 25, 2017. He was the son of F. Ross Porter (Assistant Superintendent of Duke Hospital) and Margret Porter of Hillsborough, NC. Most people referred to him as Eric. Eric headed up the technical administrative side of Duke Hospital's radiology department for 40+ years....
William Witherspoon
Sep 24, 2017
Bill was born in Branchville, SC on September 27, 1939 to Joyce and William Witherspoon, Sr. He graduated from Branchville High School in 1957. He attended Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC where he received a baseball scholarship and he was a pitcher for the Terriers. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. Upon graduation, he was recruited...
Martha Davenport
Sep 23, 2017
Martha Manning Davenport, age 88, died after several years of declining health on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at UNC Hospice in Pittsboro, NC. Martha was born in Plymouth, NC to the late James Roy Manning, Sr. and Sarah Chesson Manning. She was preceded in her death by her husband, Edwin W. Tenney, Jr. of Chapel Hill, NC; daughter, Janet...
John Headley
Sep 22, 2017
John Miles Headley, age 87, passed away peacefully on September 22, 2017 at his home with his devoted caregiver Joyce M. and family and friends in constant attendance during his final days. Born on October 23, 1929 in New York City to his late parents Peter Sanford Ross Headley and Beatrice Miles Headley, he was preceded in death by...
Nellie Parrish
Sep 21, 2017
Mrs. Nellie Hughes Fields Parrish, 83, died Thursday, September 21, 2017. She was a native of Vance County where she attended school. She was the wife of the late Charles E. Parrish. She lived most of her life in Hillsborough until she moved to Spencer, NC, to be near her family. Surviving are her son, Charles Parrish (Christy), her...
Katharine Campbell
Sep 20, 2017
Kay Webb Campbell, 64, of The Woodlake Community, Durham NC, beloved wife of Duane J. Campbell died Wednesday (September 20, 2017) at Duke University Hospital in Durham. She was born January 2, 1953 in Richmond VA, daughter of the late William and Edith (Fenton) Webb, and lived in Durham since she and Duane retired in 2011. Kay attended Simsbury...
