OBITUARIES
Wilma Hardee
Apr 16, 2015
ORANGE Wilma Merritt Hardee CHAPEL HILL - Wilma Merritt Hardee, widow of Elbert L. Hardee, died April 16, 2015. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m., April 18, 2015 at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Interment will follow in the church cemetery directed by Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill. The family will receive friends...
Priscilla Gilbert Otto
Apr 15, 2015
Obituary: Priscilla Ann Gilbert Otto (8-28-1945 to 4-15-2015) Priscilla Ann Gilbert Otto died peacefully at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill on April 15, 2015 following prolonged illness. Priscilla was born in Newport, RI on August 28, 1945 to Patricia O'Brien Gilbert and Robert Linwood Gilbert, Jr. She is survived by her husband, David Otto, of Carrboro, NC; brother...
Carrie Lee
Apr 15, 2015
Carrie Jane Lee (née Clayton), 91, passed away peacefully at the Hock Family Pavilion in Durham, NC, on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Indianapolis, IN on May 11, 1923. A longtime resident of Crete and South Chicago Heights, IL, in later years Carrie lived in Hillsborough and Durham, NC. During World...
Pauline Batton
Apr 11, 2015
Orange County Hillsborough - Pauline Elizabeth Burton Batton, 92, died Saturday, April 11, 2015. She was born in Orange County and attended the Orange County schools. She worked at Cone Mills until she retired. She was the organist for 40 years for the Church of the Nazarene in Durham and Orange Counties. She loved her family. Surviving are her...
Donald Rhew
Apr 7, 2015
Orange County Hillsborough - Donald Kirkland Rhew, 51, died Tuesday, April 7, 2015. He was the youngest of five boys and the only one that was a Tarheel fan. He attended Orange County schools. He was a people person. He loved to pull pranks on people. He also loved to play golf, play basketball, ride dirt bikes, spend time...
Virginia Price
Apr 5, 2015
Mebane - Virginia Arlene Riddle Price, 69, died April 5 , 2015. She attended Orange County schools and was employed by Byrds Foods and Lloyds Citgo. Surviving are three daughters: Laura Williams (Kevin), Lisa Williams, and Deborah Clark (Barry), three sisters: Edna V. Schwabe (Earnest), Shelby Jean W. Bower (Hank), and Brenda V. Sigmon (Dan), one brother, James Riddle...
Nancy Riggs
Apr 4, 2015
Nancy Jane Riggs, 72 of Cedar Grove joined our heavenly father on April 4, 2015 at UNC. She was born January 10, 1943 in Kanawha County, WV to the late Margaret Manahan and Albert Tury. She loved her garden, painting and watching the birds and deer in her backyard. She was warm, kind, generous and loved her family unconditionally....
Avis Dunagin
Apr 3, 2015
Efland - Mrs. Avis Pauline Dunagin, 88, died Friday, April 3, 2015. She was born November 2, 1926 to the late Nannie Mae and George Washington Dunman. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her loving husband of 56 years Delma Dunagin; step-son, Donnie Dunagin, two brothers and one sister. Surviving are her children: Calvin...
Willie Gates
Apr 2, 2015
CHAPEL HILL - Willie Andrew Gates Jr., passed away on April 2nd, 2015 at the age of 60. He is preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Helen Gates, and a brother, Harold Gates. He was known to people in the community as Billy, and to friends and family as "Babo," a name given to him by his...
John Herion
Mar 31, 2015
-CHAPEL HILL- John C. Herion, 87, retired Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, died at home on March 31 after a brief illness. He was born in Salisbury, NC, the eldest child of John H. and Helen Seaford Herion. He grew up in a modest home in Mount Pleasant, NC, and after high school enlisted in...
Jennifer Edwards
Mar 27, 2015
Jennifer Michelle Edwards, 37, of Burlington passed away at home on March 27, 2015. She was born on July 8, 1977 to Arthur Edwards and Donna Lampley Edwards. She was preceded in death by maternal grandmother Ruby Lampley; paternal grandparents Myrtle and Marcus Edwards, Sr., and father-in-law, Maurice Horner. In addition to her parents those left to cherish her...
William Dodson
Mar 25, 2015
William Fulton Dodson, 82, of Hillsborough passed away March 25th, 2015 at Brookshire Nursing Center. Born in Orange County, April 4, 1932, he was the son of the late Marshall Duke Dodson and Lillie Catherine Pickett Dodson, and was also preceded in death by a sister, Betty Mae Dodson, and an infant sister, Callie Dodson. William was a graduate...
John Couch
Mar 24, 2015
HILLSBOROUGH - John Edward Couch, 87, of Hillsborough, NC, peacefully passed away March 24, 2015 in Brookshire Nursing Facility in Hillsborough from natural causes. He was the son of Blanche and Gordon Couch of Durham and the husband of Dorothy R. Couch who passed July, 2014. He was also predeceased by his youngest son James Keith Couch in January...
Jean Mcdade
Mar 23, 2015
Cedar Grove - Jean Liner McDade died Monday, March 23, 2015. She was the daughter of the late Maude and John Henry Liner. Surviving are two daughters: Karen McDade Martin (Bill), and Betty McDade Khan (Shoaib), one son, Donald R. McDade, and one granddaughter, Callie McDade Hill (Ralph), two great granddaughters: Emery Hill and Carol Hill, numerous nieces and...
Charles Dorrity
Mar 22, 2015
Carrboro - Charles Brent Dorrity Charles Brent Dorrity, 80, of Carrboro passed away at Brookshire Nursing Center on March 22, 2015. He was born in Orange County, NC on January 25, 1935 to the late Bessie Dorrity Blake. In addition to his mother he was preceded in death by aunts, Annie Dickey, Louise Aldrich; step-father, Paul Blake; cousins, Harold...
Pamelia Green
Mar 19, 2015
Efland - Pamelia Ann Green Pamelia Ann Green, 54, of Efland passed away March 19, 2015. She was born in Durham, NC on August 7, 1960 to Betsy Ann Nichols Green and the late Alton Garner Green. She attended Brodgen High School. Those left to cherish her memory include daughters, Crystal Noel Cruz of Hillsborough, Angel Ann Green of...
Michael Rubish
Mar 15, 2015
CHAPEL HILL - Mike Rubish, a former UNC football player and local golf professional, passed peacefully Sunday afternoon, March 15, 2015, at his home in Chapel Hill. Rubish, 90, was born in Weirton,West Virginia, and was the son of Johan and Anna Rubish. At age 16, Rubish joined the 7th AirForce and served in Hawaii. He was at Hickam...
Jean Blackwood
Mar 12, 2015
Chapel Hill Jean Wilson Blackwood passed away on March 12, 2015 at her home in Chapel Hill, surrounded by her family. Jean was the daughter of the late Marvin and Sudie Wilson. She was born in Raleigh on April 30, 1929. She married Milton Evander Blackwood in 1958. They made their home in Chapel Hill. She took particular joy...
Charles Snipes
Mar 12, 2015
Charles William Snipes , 89, passed away at Alamance Regional Hospital in Burlington, on Thursday, March 12, 2015. Charles Snipes was born July 12, 1925 to James Mason Snipes Sr. and Carrie Teer Snipes. He was a life long resident of Orange County- the Orange Grove Community. He was a proud and dedicated farmer. He spent his life working...
Phillip Whitaker
Mar 11, 2015
Phillip Stewart Whitaker of Hillsborough NC died on March 11, 2015. He was born in Durham NC on December 10, 1942 to the late Lendo Edgar Whitaker, Sr. and the late Clarice Shambley Whitaker. He was predeceased on February 22, 2015, by his only sibling, brother Lendo E. Whitaker, Jr. Phil was educated in the Durham Public Schools and...
