OBITUARIES
Stacy Blank
Apr 29, 2014
Stacy Lynn Murdy Blank Stacy Lynn Murdy Blank, age 42, passed away surrounded by family and friends at N.C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. She was born June 19, 1971, in Centerville, Iowa, to Jim and Elaine (Moore) Murdy and was the older of two children. Graduating from high school as a National Honor...
Leo Rycasky
Apr 28, 2014
Leo Felix Rycasky November 5, 1916 to April 28, 2014 Mr. Rycasky, veteran of World War II, U. S. Navy, died Monday at The Pines, the medical division of Carolina Meadows, in Chatham County, North Carolina. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children of Elizabeth Wnorowska and Nicholas Rykaczefski, Mr. Rycasky's three siblings: Sister Jessie , and...
Ann Shearer
Apr 27, 2014
Durham Ann Frances Shearer (née Martin) died on Sunday, April 27, 2014 at home. She was 78 and had been in compromised physical health for many years due to complications from breast cancer treatment. She died seated on her couch near the books and magazines that supported her rich artistic interests and vibrant intellectual life. Born and raised in...
Robin Britt
Apr 25, 2014
CHAPEL HILL Robin Noel Britt died peacefully at home on April 25, 2014. She was born in Richmond, VA. on July 14, 1951. She lived in the Tidewater, VA. area before moving to N.C. with her family in her late teens. Robin graduated from Meredith College with an art degree. She was married to Bob Britt for 32 years,...
Pauline Dickerson
Apr 21, 2014
Orange County Hillsborough - Mrs. Pauline Laura Riley Dickerson, 92, of 2023 Dimmocks Mill Road, died Monday. A native of Alamance County, Mrs. Dickerson was a member of the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle Church for 50 years and a retired weaver from Cone Mills. Surviving are her daughter, Gail D. Hill of Mebane and son, Paul L. Dickerson, Jr. of...
James Dick
Apr 14, 2014
Alamance County Walker's Funeral Home of Mebane 304 W. Center St. Mebane, NC 27302 919-563-9211 Mebane - Mr. James "Jimmy" Albert Dick, 83, passed at his residence Monday, April 14, 2014. He was the son of the late Grace and Robert C. Dick. He graduated from Mebane High School and attended UNC Chapel Hill. He retired from Duke Power...
Elizabeth Hotong
Apr 14, 2014
Elizabeth "Bettie" Wilhelmina Dorathea HoTong April 16, 1962 - April 14, 2014 Chapel Hill, NC Bettie HoTong, beloved wife and mother, passed away on April 14, 2014 at home in Chapel Hill NC, surrounded by those who deeply loved her after a courageous battle with cancer. She lived and died with beauty and grace. Bettie was born in South...
Carl Brow
Apr 14, 2014
Carl Stanley Brow, III February 18, 1967-April 14, 2014 Born to Patricia Jane Phillips and Carl S. Brow, II in Charleston County, South Carolina, Carl was the second of four children. He joined the Navy in 1986 and served his country in the military for over 22 years, first as a Hospital Corpsman and later as a Navy Nurse...
Dorothy Duke
Apr 12, 2014
Durham Dorothy Osborne Duke June 26, 1920-April 12, 2014 Born to Ina Minatra Osborne and Foster Osborne in Giles County, Tennessee, the ninth of eleven children, Dot was an excellent student, and played on her high school basketball team. She often told her family about country life in Giles County, such as leading their red cow to the creek,...
Margaret Phelps
Apr 12, 2014
Obituary for Margaret W. Phelps Margaret Walker Phelps, 99, of Hillsborough, died Saturday April 12, 2014. Mrs. Phelps was at home with her family at the time of her passing. Margaret was born in Orange County on April 3, 1915 to J. Edward and Sudie Dameron Walker. Margaret was the surviving sibling, being predeceased by two siblings, Harold Walker...
Estelle Strum Blackwelder
Apr 11, 2014
Orange County Hillsborough - Mrs. Estelle Strum Blackwelder, 96, died April 11, 2014. She was a life time resident of Orange County. Mrs. Blackwelder was born October 5, 1917 to the late Dick and Lizzie Strum. She was also a caring mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She is in death predeceased by her husband Charlie Blackwelder and brother, Matthew...
Colleen Hall
Apr 8, 2014
Colleen "CoCo" McCrea Hall, age 63, died April 8, 2014 in her home in Chapel Hill, NC after courageously battling cancer for more than 27 years. CoCo was born September 29, 1950 in Baltimore, MD to Betty Carl McCrea and the late Edward Wesley McCrea. In 1968, she graduated from Towson High School where many lifelong friendships began. On...
Henry Pope
Apr 5, 2014
Orange County Hillsborough - Henry Thomas Pope Senior, 84, of 415 North Cameron Street, Hillsborough, passed away on Saturday April 5, 2014, at home with his family at his bedside. A lifetime resident of Orange County, he was born in Durham on January 18, 1930, the son of Sallie Lee and Charlie Bunn Pope, Sr. He spent the first...
Louis Vine
Apr 3, 2014
Dr. Louis L. Vine, 91, passed away April 3, 2014 in Myrtle Beach, SC. He was born May 19, 1922 to Bella and Paul Levine in Brooklyn, NY. At 16, he went to undergraduate at Cornell University (and played third base for the baseball team)Then on to Middlesex University Veterinary College, now part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass....
Edith Walker
Apr 1, 2014
Edith "Allene" Walker Born February 11, 1941 Died April 1, 2014 Allene Walker was diagnosed on March 21, 2014 with advanced lung cancer. It was her wish to have hospice care at her daughter Susan's home, where she had lived the last four years. She was surrounded by family at her passing. She was pre-deceased by her parents; Edmond...
Doris Gill
Mar 29, 2014
Chapel Hill Kind and tenderhearted. A champion for the underdog and the downtrodden. An extraordinary self-less and humble person, always thinking of the other person first, even after Parkinson's Disease had crippled her body. An exceptional volunteer. Her life was grounded in her strong belief in God, and her greatest love after God was her family and helping others....
Patricia Kropp
Mar 29, 2014
Patricia Kropp died on March 29 at Carol Woods Retirement Community surrounded by her family. She and her husband Paul are long term residents of Chapel Hill. She was the mother of David of Columbus, OH and Sonia of Chapel Hill. She had 5 grandchildren and 4 step grandchildren. She experienced many adventures in life as a stewardess for...
Kathleen Brooks
Mar 28, 2014
Kathleen Ridgeway Brooks 11/13/24-3/28/14 passed away peacefully at WhiteStone/The Masonic and Eastern Star Home in Greensboro NC, surrounded by loved ones. Kathleen was born in Honea Path, SC., was preceded in death by her husband Clyde Kenneth Brooks, Jr. and her parents Robert Talmedge Ridgeway and Ruth Ridgeway of Princeton SC . Also two brothers, Bill and Joe Ridgeway,...
Elsie Ellis Dodson
Mar 28, 2014
Hillsborough - Mrs. Elsie Mae Ellis Dodson, age 89, a resident of Dairy Land Road died on March 28, 2014. Mrs. Dodson was born in Chatham County on October 24, 1924 to the late Lula Tripp Ellis and John Ellis. Elsie retired from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She was also a caring mother and grandmother....
Donna Johnson Andrews
Mar 27, 2014
Efland - Mrs. Donna Christine Johnson Andrews, age 60, died on March 27, 2014 at 1403 Blue Jasper Lane in Efland. Mrs. Andrews was born in Davidson County on December 1, 1953 to the late Carl Johnson and Mary MeLinda Coffee Johnson. Donna married Frank Andrews, Sr. and moved to Orange County in 1970. She was a homemaker and...
