OBITUARIES
Robert Goyer
Feb 21, 2017
DURHAM - Robert A. Goyer, age 89, died on February 21, 2017 at the Hock House Hospice at Duke. Robert was born on June 2, 1927, in Hartford, Connecticut to the late Andrew Goyer and Cecilia Castonguay Goyer. Robert was married to Mary Ellen Wilke. He went to Canton High School in Canton, Connecticut where in October, 2003, his...
Nolan Davis
Feb 18, 2017
Infant son of Justin Davis and Alyssia Phanethay. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is honored to serve the Davis family.
Sabrina Chavalier
Feb 17, 2017
Chapel Hill - Sabrina Marie Chevalier, 48 of Conner Dr. Chapel Hill passed away peacefully, Friday, February 17, 2017 at Signature Heath. Sabrina was born October 4, 1968, in Rock Hill, SC to the late Clawson Brandon and Martha Ann Kidd. She was of the Pentecostal faith. The true loves of her life was her daughter, Krista and her...
Peggy Crabtree
Feb 16, 2017
Hillsborough - Peggy H. Crabtree, 87, earned her wings Thursday, February 16, 2017, at Brookshire Nursing Center following an extended illness.. She was the daughter of Morris Holden and Ada Cates Holden Hurley. She was born in Orange County and attended the Orange County schools. She retired from Whites Furniture Company. She liked to crochet, cross stitch, and was...
Leonard Lacock
Feb 16, 2017
Rev. Leonard Lacock, 86, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina passed away, Thursday, February 16, 2017 at Westchester Manor with his family by his side. Rev. Lacock was born February, 17, 1930 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and was the husband of the late Bobbie Lou Buck Lacock. He pastored several Church of God churches in North Carolina and Tennessee....
Dorothy Meierdiercks
Feb 11, 2017
Graham- Dorothy Marie Mitchel Meierdiercks, 77, died Saturday, February 11, 2017. She was a native of New York where she graduated from the New York school system and attended the College of Nursing. She married Al Meierdiercks, Sr., In 1980 they moved to North Carolina to work at Walker's Funeral Home in Chapel Hill until retirement in 2001. He...
Clarence Daniel
Feb 10, 2017
Clarence R. Daniel, 91, died February 10, 2017. Mr. Daniel was born October 27, 1925 in Pittsylvania County, Dry Fork, VA. He was a son of Charlie Harvey Daniel and Lizzie Goard Daniel. Clarence served in the United States Marine Corps first division during World War II. His unit was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. In the battle of...
Celeste Castillo Lee
Feb 9, 2017
Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is honored to serve the Lee family.
Ida Friday
Feb 6, 2017
The indomitable Ida Howell Friday passed away peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones, Monday, February 6, 2017. She had a wonderful life for 97 years and exemplified the best of the Greatest Generation. Ida was strong, determined and accomplished and lived her life with grace and compassion. She influenced countless lives, transformed her community, and leaves a legacy...
Virginia Dodson Davis
Feb 6, 2017
Virginia Dare Dodson Davis, passed away on February 6, 2017 at Signature Healthcare in Chapel Hill, NC. She was born in Orange County on September 20, 1930 to the late Hiram Boyd Dodson, Sr. and Mary Williams Dodson. Virginia was a native of Orange County and graduated from Hillsborough High. After her children were old enough to go to...
Mary Medearis
Feb 4, 2017
Mary Ellen (Molly) Marble Medearis died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Saturday, February 4, 2017, at the age of 83. She was a devoted family member, a civic-minded volunteer, a student of history and of cities, and a lover of music and the outdoors. As a girl, she loved playing soccer and canoeing. She shared her love of...
Albert Fisher
Feb 3, 2017
It is with great joy and profound sadness that we celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Albert Fleet Fisher who died peacefully on February 3, 2017, in the company of loved ones. Born to the late Albert Ashton Fisher and Bessie Lee Smith Fisher on January 3, 1929, in Garland, North Carolina, he was raised in Fairmont,...
Margaret Hatcher
Feb 2, 2017
Margaret Crowe Hatcher, 82, died Feb. 2, 2017, in Pittsboro, North Carolina, after a brief illness. She was born in Talladega, Alabama, on Feb. 16, 1934, to the Rev. William Crowe and Catherine Graeber Crowe. She grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Duke University. She was married to Thurston R....
Dixie Plummer
Jan 31, 2017
Our beautiful loving mother, Dixie Mae Brockwell Plummer, passed from this physical world into the ethereal heavens on January 31, 2017. Born in Carrboro in 1934, Dixie was the youngest of seven children born in the depression era to Aldophus and Willie Brockwell. She married the love of her life, Paul Morris Plummer, Sr. on Christmas Eve in 1948...
George Weiser
Jan 27, 2017
George Thomas (Bud) Weiser, 85, passed away peacefully in his sleep in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on January 27, 2017. He was born September 17, 1931 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but lived in the Washington, DC area for most of his life. Mr. Weiser is survived by his wife of 62 years, Joyce Ann Weiser; his son, William Edward...
Betty Mccall Russell
Jan 26, 2017
Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough is serving the Russell family.
Mary Lowder Love
Jan 25, 2017
Mary Evelyn "Mel" Lowder Love, 91, passed away on Wednesday January 25th, 2017 of natural causes in Chapel Hill. She was born in Norwood, NC, June 12, 1925, the daughter of Emma Henshaw and Maude Lowder. Mel attended Phifer College, receiving her degree in home economics in 1946. She is preceded in death by her husband, Harold R. Love...
