OBITUARIES
James Clay Rhodes
Sep 22, 2022
Full Obit to be posted when it is available.
Services are provided by Walker's Funeral Home in Mebane
Ann B. Cockrell
Sep 22, 2022
Ann Baines Cockrell passed away on September 22, 2022 in Chapel Hill, NC. She was 82. She was born on June 26, 1940 in Washington, DC and raised in Kensington, Maryland. Family and many friends knew her as “Penny.”
She attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, and graduated from Duke University in 1962, where...
Magdalena Maria Gebska-Wojdynska
Sep 20, 2022
MAGDALENA GEBSKA-WOJDYNSKA OBITUARY
Magdalena Gebska-Wojdynska
September 20, 2022
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Dr. Magdalena Maria Gebska-Wojdynska of Chapel Hill passed away in late September due to complications from cancer. A beloved physician, wife, mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother, her kindness and ability to delight in life's small wonders will be...
William Brown
Sep 18, 2022
William Joseph Brown, 87, passed away on Sunday, September 18 in Chapel Hill, NC. Originally from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Bill graduated from West Catholic High School and Villanova University. After a two year service in the US army, he worked as a copywriter for advertising firms in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. After retirement, he moved to Florida...
Mark Veety
Sep 17, 2022
Mark Donald Veety, 69, died on September 17th, 2022 at Chatham Hospital in Siler City, North Carolina surrounded by his family. Mark was born on April 17th, 1953 in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Donald Veety and Arline (Huggler) Soderbloom.
Mark graduated from Middletown High School in Middletown, New York in 1971, enlisted in the United States...
Charlotte (Dunlap) Briggs Solomon
Sep 14, 2022
Charlotte (Dunlap) Briggs Solomon of Carrboro, NC, Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at UNC Hospitals. She was preceded in death by her parents, Vester and Bessie (Wall) Dunlap of Madison; brother, Larry Dunlap of High Point, and former husbands, James B. Briggs of Yanceyville and George Solomon of Roxboro.
Survivors are one daughter, Amanda Briggs (Cindy)...
Dorothy Elizabeth Crabtree
Sep 14, 2022
Dorothy “Beth” Crabtree went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on September 14, 2022; she was 58 years old. Beth was born in Washington, DC on November 1, 1963 to the late Harold Andrew and Kenna Sue McKenzie. In 1981 she graduated from Athens High School in Athens, W.V. She went to Concord College in Athens for a...
Eric Christian Stachnik
Sep 11, 2022
Eric Christian Stachnik, our beloved son, passed away on Sunday, September 11, 2022. He was born in Rome, NY on June 11th, 1990 and attended Rome Catholic and public schools, graduating from Rome Free Academy in 2008.
He moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 2010 and began a successful career as a sales manager. He...
John Davis Reynolds
Sep 5, 2022
John “Rusty” Davis Reynolds, 74, of Chapel Hill, passed away on Monday, September 5, 2022. He was born in Buncombe County, NC, the son of the late John Mackey Reynolds and Nancy Davis Reynolds. He was a loving husband to Sandra Fromm Reynolds, a dedicated step-father to Derek Jarr, and devoted “Papa John” to grandsons Jack and Kashton.
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Bruce Bagwell
Sep 5, 2022
Bruce Bagwell passed away Monday, September 5, 2022 at his home. Although Bruce had ongoing post-Covid effects after a year and a half, his sudden death was both heartbreaking and unexpected.
Bruce is the son of the late T.C. and Dorothy Bagwell. Garner was Bruce’s home through his school years-- and after graduation, he proudly...
Joann Marie Westfall
Sep 3, 2022
Joann Marie Westfall, 64, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, unexpectedly passed away on September 3, 2022, with her mother at her side. Joann was born on February 20, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York.
Following a successful career that began in the field of advertising in New York City, Joann later moved to North Carolina, where...
Sue
Sep 3, 2022
Annie Sue Hayes Riley
Mrs. Annie Sue Hayes Riley, age 86, of Hillsborough passed away on September 3,2022 ,at her residence surrounded by her family. She was born in Hillsborough NC to the late William Anderson and Daisy Wilkins Hayes. Sue graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1955. She retired from Wilmore Electronics in 1998....
Derek Ross Sterling
Aug 30, 2022
May 4, 1981 – August 30, 2022
Derek Ross Sterling, 41 of Durham, NC, passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, in Durham, NC.
Derek was born to Michael Ross Sterling and Jane Winecoff Levin in Sanford, NC, in May 1981. He lived his early life in...
Alexander Reid Callaham-Bishop
Aug 30, 2022
Alexander Reid Callaham-Bishop, age 28, passed away on August 30, 2022, in his hometown of Chapel Hill.
Alex and his twin brother Sergei moved to the US at six years old from Kazakhstan. Alex never lost his love of his Russian heritage. While still in high school, he explored Russian language and culture at the...
Robert Devane Croom Iii
Aug 24, 2022
Robert DeVane Croom, III
August 8, 1938 - August 24, 2022
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Robert DeVane Croom, III, first son of Robert D. Croom, Jr. and Rosa Currie Croom, died peacefully in his home in Chapel Hill on August 24, 2022.
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Jeannette Kathryn Musil
Aug 23, 2022
Jeannette Kathryn Musil, age 97, passed peacefully surrounded by her family on August 23, 2022 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was born October 6, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska to the late John James and Helen Opocensky Matcha and was married to the late Bernard James Musil. Over the years she and Bernie lived in Omaha, Nebraska, Orlando, Florida,...
Lyndal Smith Perry
Aug 23, 2022
Lyndal Smith Perry of Carrboro passed away peacefully at Parkview Health & Rehabilitation Center August 23, 2022. She was 94. A lifelong resident of Carrboro and member of the Carrboro United Methodist Church, Lyndal devoted her life to family. She took pride in not just caring for her granddaughter but also her four great grandchildren, Madelyn, Alexander, Nicholas and...
Verghese John Chirayath
Aug 22, 2022
Dr. Verghese J. Chirayath passed away at Carolina Meadows Health Center on August 22, 2022 at the age of 80. Arrangements are incomplete and an obituary will be posted when available. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assisting the Chirayath family.
James Webb Cheshire, Jr.
Aug 20, 2022
James Webb Cheshire, Jr. died August 20, 2022 in Burlington, North Carolina after a fall in his skilled nursing facility. He was a month away from his 99th birthday.
Jim was born in Raleigh and moved to Hillsborough at the age of twelve with his parents and two younger brothers. He graduated from high school...
Michael Malone
Aug 19, 2022
Michael Malone was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1942. He died on August 19, 2022 at his home in Clinton, Connecticut. He will be buried in Hillsborough, NC in the cemetery of St. Mathews Episcopal Church. He is survived by his wife, Maureen Quilligan, his sister Sheila Waller, his brother David Malone, his five nieces and one nephew,...
