OBITUARIES
Murry Ferguson
Sep 26, 2016
Murry Wister Ferguson, Jr. of Carolina Meadows, Chapel Hill, NC, and Blowing Rock, NC died September 26, 2016. He was born in Mebane, NC and lived there until moving to Wilmington, N.C. in 1967. He was a custom home builder and developer in that area until his retirement in 1997. He was preceded in death by his parents, Murry...
Ann Queen
Sep 25, 2016
Ann Queen, 72, of Hillsborough, NC, passed away on September 25, 2016. A family service was held at Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough September 29. Pastor Buddy Wright officiated. Ann was born in Durham on November 28, 1943. She graduated from Hillsboro High School and continued on to receive a nursing degree from Watts. Ann worked as a nurse...
Toula Bockting
Sep 25, 2016
Toula Protos Bockting, age ninety, died of heart failure on September 25, 2016, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was born on March 25, 1926, in Washington, D.C. to James Protos and Sophia Manolas Protos. She attended Roosevelt High School. As a young woman, she worked for the State Department and the CIA. After earning her Bachelor's Degree in...
William Carver
Sep 22, 2016
William Austin Carver, Jr. passed away on September 27, 2016. He is survived by his wife Beverly B. Carver, and mother, Helen B. Carver. He was preceded in death by his father, William A. Carver, Sr. He was a member of Cherry Point Baptist Church and graduated from Havelock High School. He also attended Dalton College in Dalton, Georgia....
Shelleymarie Clarke
Sep 22, 2016
ShelleyMarie Jillene Clarke, 64, of Durham, passed away Thursday, September 22, 2016 at the home of her brother Todd, in Chapel Hill, NC. ShelleyMarie was born February 23, 1952 in St. Paul MN to the late Orville J. and Lorraine E. Flaherty Meath, and was the wife of the late Gerald G. Clarke. She was a Business Manager with...
Victor Slade
Sep 21, 2016
Victor Leonard Slade, 59, passed away in the comfort of his home in Chapel Hill on September 21, 2016, after a long journey with cancer. He was a loving husband and father, dear friend and coworker, devoted tender of butterflies, and talented origamist. Victor was born in Amityville, New York, on March 3, 1957, the youngest son of his...
Barbara Jones
Sep 20, 2016
Chapel Hill, NC - Barbara Neville Jones, age 95, died Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Cedars of Chapel Hill. Mrs. Jones was born April 12, 1921 in Chapel Hill, NC; in the home she grew up in on Mallette St.; to the late Andrew and Alma Dean Neville. She married her true love, John Daniel Jones, Jr. in...
Frances Day
Sep 19, 2016
Frances Hawkins Day, 93, died on Monday September 19, 2016, at Granville Medical Center in Oxford. Frances was 93 at the time of her death. Frances, also known as Nanny, is survived by one remaining son, Phillip (Cheryl), five grandchildren, Jason, Jonathan (Ashley), Nick, Kaitlyn, & Libby. In addition she is survived by a number of great grandchildren, cousins,...
Ricky Parker
Sep 18, 2016
Mebane, NC - Ricky Paul Parker, 56 of Durham, NC passed away Sunday, September 18, 2016 at Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC. Ricky was born in Pearson County, NC to the late Richard Parker and Lucille Carver Parker, whom survives. He was a self-employed electrician. Ricky is survived by his wife Debra Post, his mother, Lucille Parker of Mebane,...
Randy Mcconnell
Sep 18, 2016
Randy Thorne McConnell, scientist, husband, father, and friend, passed away peacefully at home in the early morning of Sunday, September 18, 2016, following a courageous battle with cancer. He was 66. Randy was born to Mary Lee and John Marshall McConnell in Mooresville, NC. His mother taught him piano at an early age. This was the beginning of an...
Wylie Cole
Sep 17, 2016
Hillsborough - Mr. Wylie Stephen Cole, 72, died September 17, 2016. He was a native of Orange County. He was a graduate of Hillsboro High School and received his associate degree from a technical school. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later worked for Burlington Mills until retirement. He was married to Faye Carroll for many years....
Nancy Wilson
Sep 16, 2016
Nancy Wilson, 65, of Chapel Hill, passed away on September 16, 2016, at Alamance Caswell Hospice House in Burlington, North Carolina. Nancy was born on May 18, 1951, the daughter of William Harold and Willie Lee (Pickett) Clark. She later married Henry Wilson, Jr. whom survives. She retired from the University of North Carolina, where she worked as an...
Bobby Tatum
Sep 15, 2016
Mebane, NC - Bobby Young Tatum, 64 of Mebane, NC passed away Thursday, September 15, 2016 at Alamace-Caswell Hospice in Burlington, NC. Bobby was born in Person County on May 9, 1952 to the late Charlie and Carrie Riley Tatum, and at a young age his parents moved to Orange County. He attended Orange County Schools and served in...
Beverly Mcbride
Sep 14, 2016
Hillsborough - Mrs. Beverly Sue Johnson McBride, 63, died Wednesday, September 14, 2016. She was a native of Orange County and grew up in Chatham County where she attended Chatham School. She was employed at the Chapel Hill Country Club for 20 years and retired due to health problems Surviving are her daughter, Robin M. Ligon (Don), her son,...
Neldo Sibrian
Sep 14, 2016
Carrboro, NC - Neldo M. Sibrian, age 61, of Carrboro passed away Wednesday, September 14, 2016 with his family by his side. Mr. Sibrian was the husband of Isable del Trancito Marin. He was the son of the late Fernando Sibrian and Demesia del Carmen Eche Verria whom survives. Funeral services will be held 8:00 P.M, Thursday, September 15,...
Elwood Coley
Sep 10, 2016
Dr. Elwood B. "Woody" Coley died peacefully at the Dubose Health Center in Chapel Hill on September 10, 2016. Born on March 31, 1927, he grew up as one of six siblings on a farm in Wilder's Grove, NC. Raised in the height of the depression by his mother, Mrs. C. L. Wrenn, who lost her husband when he...
George Wood
Sep 10, 2016
George Wilber Wood died on Saturday, September 10th at his home in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He was born on September 30, 1927 in Hertford, NC to the late John Elmer and Beulah Benton Wood. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Martha Gulledge Wood, children Mike Wood and Martha Wood Brown (Andy Brown). He also has 6...
Penny Parker
Sep 9, 2016
Penny Wright Parker went to be with the Lord on September 9, 2016 at her home in Cedar Grove, NC. She was born on December 22, 1950 to the late Melvin and Margaret Wright. She is survived by her husband of 47 years, Tommy Parker, children, Watt Parker (Erica Farmer), Terri Parker, and her beloved lab, Rosie. She is...
Mary Terry
Sep 2, 2016
Mary Sue Roberts Terry, age 87 passed away at Presbyterian Home of Hawfields in Mebane, NC on September 2, 2016 following a long journey through Alzheimer's Disease. Sue was born in Orange County and lived in Hillsborough all of her life. She is the daughter of the late Charles L. and Eunice (Anderson) Roberts. She was preceded in death...
