OBITUARIES
Kate Frances Womble
Sep 26, 2022
Kate Frances Womble, 86, formerly of Mebane passed away on September 26, 2022 at The Bryan Center of Yanceyville, North Carolina. She was born on January 6, 1936 to Mr. Lonnie and Martha King Womble, both deceased.
A service to celebrate her life will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at Walker’s Funeral Home...
Jerry Alvin Hawkins
Sep 25, 2022
JUNE 21, 1942 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Jerry died on September 25, 2022, in Duke Hospital after a brief illness. He was born to parents Alvin and Elma Laws Hawkins on June 21,1942, in Hurdle Mills, NC. He graduated from Aycock High School in Cedar Grove, NC in 1960. He attended...
Kathi Grady Daly
Sep 23, 2022
Kathi Grady Daly, age 60, died peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on Friday, September 23, 2022 after a 10 year long, hard fought battle with ALS. A native of Wilson, NC, Kathi graduated from Fike High School in Wilson in 1980. She was the head cheerleader there and always led with enthusiasm and by example. Kathi...
Deborah Sparks Lee
Sep 23, 2022
Deborah Sparks Lee of Mebane, NC passed peacefully, but unexpectedly, Friday, September 23, 2022 at home. Deborah was born in Greenville, SC to Frank Sparks and Hilda Alford on June 10, 1956, but resided in Durham, NC most of her life until moving to Mebane.
Deborah is survived by her husband...
Ernest Archie Dollar, Sr.
Sep 23, 2022
On September 23, 2022 Ernest Archie Dollar Sr. passed away after a long battle with cancer in West Jefferson, North Carolina. He was a native of Chatham County born July 31, 1936 to Ernest and Helen Dollar. Archie graduated from Chapel Hill High School in 1955 and went on to serve in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958...
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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