OBITUARIES
Betty Manning
May 7, 2017
Betty Bullard Manning of Chapel Hill, NC passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 7th in Concord, California where she was relocated closer to family to recover after suffering a stroke. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 23rd at 11:00 at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill to be followed by a reception. Betty was born...
Naomi Wilson
May 6, 2017
Cedar Grove Naomi Faith Wilson passed away peacefully May 6th. She was born in Durham, June 11, 1922, to Cluster Eugene Dabbs of Clay County, Alabama and Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Hester Dabbs of Durham. The eldest, Naomi was called at an early age to care for her four younger siblings. These were difficult years, but it was with pride...
Rena Terrell
May 4, 2017
Hillsborough RENA TAYLOR TERRELL, daughter of the late Ollin Taylor and Emma Maynard Taylor was born August 14, 1928. In the early hours of May 4, 2017, God called Rena home to eternal rest. Rena was a graduate of Chapel Hill High School. She attended and graduated from Croft Secretarial and Accounting School in Durham, NC. She was employed...
Elizabeth Whinna
May 3, 2017
Elizabeth (Betty) Jackson Whinna, 93, of Hillsborough, North Carolina died peacefully at home on Wednesday May 3, 2016. Betty was born in Collingswood, New Jersey, May 2, 1924 to F. Herbert Jackson. and Cora Nace Jackson. She graduated from Collingswood High School in New Jersey in 1942 and went on to nursing school at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia with...
Richard Ennis
May 2, 2017
Richard C. Ennis III, known as "Trey" at the young age of 15, died on May 2nd, 2017, at Duke University Hospital as a result of complications due to leukemia treatments. Trey was born on August 14th, 2001, in Durham, North Carolina to Mary and Rick Ennis. Trey was a student at Charles E. Jordan High School and an...
Caroline Klein
Apr 27, 2017
Caroline Marie Klein, M.D., Ph.D., of Chapel Hill, NC, age 56, passed away on April 27, 2017, at the Hospice Home in Burlington, NC, following a courageous six year battle with cancer. Dr. Klein was born on August 5, 1960, in Rochester, NH, to the late Grover Hugh Klein and Sara Elizabeth Edwards Klein. A native of Asheville, NC,...
Roger Atkins
Apr 26, 2017
Roger Vick Atkins of Hillsborough, North Carolina and Little River, South Carolina passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife, Judy Atkins, son Roger Atkins II (Stephanie) and daughter Caroline Lemire (John). He is also survived by five wonderful grandchildren: Connor Alexander, Alexa Camille and Addison Catherine Atkins...
Peggy Utsman
Apr 26, 2017
Hillsborough - Peggy J. Utsman, loving mother and grandmother, passed peacefully at her home on April 26, 2017. She was born April 5, 1936. She was preceded in death by her husband Maynard C. Utsman, mother, grandson Kendall, two brothers and a baby daughter. She is survived by three daughters: Emma Hester (Mark), Sue Jolly, Lynn Canada (Steve), five...
Dot Gunnells
Apr 25, 2017
Dorothy "Dot" Davis Gunnells, 88, of Chapel Hill passed away on April 25, 2017 in Burlington, NC. Dot was born on October 11, 1928, in Memphis, Tennessee to the late Floyd and Katherine Davis. She was married to Jack H. Gunnells. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in business from Memphis State University. Known to many as Coach Gunnells, she...
Susan Stock
Apr 24, 2017
Hillsborough - Mrs. Sue Ellis Stock, 70, died Monday, April 24, 2017. She was born, raised and attended school in Middlefield, CT. She was a graduate of Middletown High School (1964), and Central CT State College (1968). She went to officer training school at the Lackland Air Force Base, Texas (1968) and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the...
David Work
Apr 22, 2017
David Roger Work was born on June 14, 1939 in Clinton, IA and died on April 22, 2017, in Wilmington, NC. David graduated from Clinton High School in 1957, earned a B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Iowa in 1961, and a J.D. from the University of Denver in 1968. After working at Blue Cross & Blue Shield...
Faye Brockwell
Apr 20, 2017
Some people walk softly through this world and yet their gentle spirits awaken the best in all others around them. Faye Brockwell born Allie Faye Swink on March 14, 1928 in Cass, WV was exactly one of those people. Losing her father Charles Swink at a young age, her mother Ruth Tallman Swink and grandfather John Henry Tallman raised...
Frank Fearrington
Apr 20, 2017
Chapel Hill Frank Wynne Fearrington, 90, of Chapel Hill, died peacefully Thursday morning, April 20, 2017. A native of Chapel Hill, Frank was the son of the late Lenna Holleman Fearrington and George Edward Fearrington. He entered the U.S. Navy at age 18, was discharged as a Seaman First Class, and then returned home to work in storerooms and...
Judith Ryder Cowan
Apr 19, 2017
Judith Harcourt Ryder Cowan, 85, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at Edgewood Place in Burlington, N.C. Judy is preceded in death by her parents, Raymond and Marion Ryder; her brother, Bill; her sister, Nancy; and her husband, James. Judy is survived by her four children and their spouses: Catherine Becker and her spouse, Paul; Cynthia Bennett and...
Dorothea Lank
Apr 18, 2017
Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is serving the Lank family. Service information and obituary are incomplete at this time.
Judith Carrigan
Apr 17, 2017
Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is serving the Carrigan family. Obituary and service information is incomplete at this time.
Mavis Cagle
Apr 16, 2017
Durham - Mavis Miexell Cagle, 90, of Pickett Rd. Durham, NC passed away April 16, 2017 at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC. Mrs. Cagle was a native of New York, born December 16, 1926 to the late James and Mildred Miexell. She graduated from Bethany College in Bethany, WV and began working as a Social Worker in Southern...
John Blackwood
Apr 14, 2017
Chapel Hill - John William Blackwood, 75 of Chapel Hill passed away Friday, April 14, 2017 at his home with his family by his side. John was born January 22, 1942 in Orange County, NC to the late John Hocutt and Rachel Nalls Blackwood. He was the husband of Diane Suitt Blackwood of the home, whom survives. John was...
Katherine Buckner
Apr 12, 2017
Katherine (Kit) Kern Buckner died at age 102, just 22 days shy of her 103rd birthday. She died at her home in Chapel Hill on April 12, 2017 after an extended illness. She was born in 1914 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Paul Bentley and Lucy Campbell Kern. She spent her childhood in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas. She graduated...
