OBITUARIES
Robert Peter Guizzetti
Mar 8, 2022
Robert (Bob) Peter Guizzetti, 96, passed away on March 8, 2022. He was born on January 10, 1926. He is survived by his wife of nearly 17 years, Barbara (Bobby) Morrill Callahan Guizzetti, and his four daughters: Robin Jeffers (Dick), Christine Begley (Bobby), Janet Mallon (Rick), Patricia Guizzetti (Therese Quinn) and 4 step-children: Kathleen Callahan, Diane Perez (Charlie), Sharon...
Priscilla Corintha Ray
Mar 7, 2022
Priscilla Corintha Clayton Ray entered Heaven’s gates on March 7, 2022 in Gainesville, Georgia after a brief illness. She was born in Hillsborough, North Carolina to Rainey Banes Clayton and Alcy Mae Johnson Clayton. After receiving her Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee, she taught high school in Ringgold and Loganville, Georgia and middle school in Waynesville,...
Donald Mclean Helton
Mar 7, 2022
Donald McLean Helton passed away on March 6th, 2022. Don is survived by his wife, Susan Helton, his mother, Barbara Helton, his daughter Jenny Hester and her husband Daron, his son Donald Helton Jr. and his wife Shana, his sister-in-law Marion Helton, and his grandchildren: Helen, Sarah, and Rosa. Don was preceded in death by his father Clifton, his...
Lizzie Charity Chikwanda
Mar 5, 2022
Lizzie (Liz) Charity Chikwanda beloved mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend and colleague passed away Saturday, March 5 , 2022 at her home in Chapel hill. Liz was born in Lusaka, Zambia on January 27, 1976 to Godwin N. Chikwanda and Winifreda P. Chikwanda. Liz graduated from Kabulonga Secondary School in lusaka in 1993. She relocated to the United States...
Della Louise Fredericksen Hudson
Mar 4, 2022
Della Louise Fredericksen Hudson, beloved wife, mother and friend, passed in her sleep on Friday, March 4th. She had battled Alzheimer’s for over a decade. Born March 2nd, 1942 in Oak Park, Illinois to Edward and Jesse Fredericksen, Della spent most of her childhood on a 160 acre farm in central Illinois. As a teacher for the Defense Department...
Samuel Bradford Mcknight
Mar 4, 2022
Samuel Bradford “Brad” McKnight, 63, died peacefully at home on March 4, 2022 after a long battle with cancer. He was born on October 29, 1958 in Chapel Hill, NC to Anzenette Andrews and the late Preston Lloyd McKnight.. Brad attended Parkwood Elementary School, Lowes Grove Junior High School, Jordan High School (all in Durham, NC), Randolph-Macon Academy (Front...
Walter Robert Mears
Mar 3, 2022
Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. “I could produce a story as fast as I could type,” Mears once acknowledged — and he was a fast typist. He became the AP’s Washington bureau...
Armp Lenwood Strum
Mar 3, 2022
Rev. Armp Lenwood Strum, age 94, formerly of Hillsborough die March 3, 2022 in Burlington. He was born September 7, 1927, in Orange County. The son of the late Fletcher and Mary Viola Brown Strum. He was preceded in death by brothers, Oscar Strum, Melvin Strum, sisters, Stella Adams, Mandy Wheely, and Hazel Wagner. He was a veteran of...
Eunice Crane
Mar 3, 2022
Eunice Durham Crane, 89, of Mebane, passed away on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at Alamance Regional Medical Center. She was born on May 16, 1932, to the late Charles Cicero Durham and Ruth Woods, both deceased. She was married to Mr. Ira Boggs Jr and Mr. William Crane, both deceased. She was a care giver for many years for...
Jeanette Ross
Feb 28, 2022
Jeanette J. Ross, 77 of Efland, went to be with the Lord unexpectedly, on February 28, 2022 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Born October 05, 1944 in New Bedford Mass, oldest daughter of James Benjamin Johnson and Hazel Reid Johnson six children, James B Johnson Jr, Barbara Ann Williams, Joyce Sheila Ireland, Kenneth B Johnson and...
Claude Winfred Wade
Feb 28, 2022
Graham, NC - Claude Winfred Wade passed away Monday, February 28, 2022 at Duke Regional Hospital. He was born on November 23, 1944 in Lenoir County and was raised in Snow Hill, NC. He graduated from Greene Central High School. After graduating he followed his dream to become a North Carolina State Highway Patrolman. He faithfully served the state...
Herman Paul Hoecke
Feb 27, 2022
Herman Paul Höecke left this Earth on Sunday, February 27th, 2022. Herman, who preferred to go by Paul, was the son of Paul Höecke and Valerie Gubonov, and he was born in Berlin, Germany in 1937. His parents had moved there after meeting and marrying in Belgrade while they were students at university. They lived in the Berlin and...
Leo William Weisbecker
Feb 25, 2022
Leo William Weisbecker, 93, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina passed away on February 25, 2022. One of six children, he was born in 1929 in Omaha, Nebraska, son of Alan and Cecilia Weisbecker. He attended Creighton Prep and his post-secondary education included a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree from...
Byron Anthony Dalton
Feb 24, 2022
Byron Anthony “Tony” Dalton was born June 6, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, and died peacefully on February 24th, 2022 at Duke Hospital after a lengthy illness. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Suellyn Lehman Dalton; his brother, David Lee Dalton (Kaye) and their children Kelly Suhre (Steve) and Patrick Dalton (Regina) all of Louisville Kentucky and...
Marilyn Louise Tracy
Feb 23, 2022
Miss Marilyn Tracy, 81, longtime resident of Hillsboro, Ohio and loyal friend to Diana Sunstrum, Mary Jane Beechen, Mary Root and Jan Manning passed away on February 23 at her niece’s home in Chapel Hill. A devoted elementary teacher of 43 years, Miss Tracy dedicated her life to helping others, asking for nothing in return. Compassionate and caring, teaching...
Patricia Ann Wilkerson
Feb 23, 2022
It is with great sadness that the family of Patricia Ann Wilkerson announce that on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at the age of 75, she went home to be with the Lord. Pat will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 60 years, Willie “Mack” Wilkerson. Her sisters, children, grand children and all 9 great grand babies. Her family...
John William Lingerfelt, Jr.
Feb 22, 2022
John, "Johnny" Lingerfelt, Jr., age 75, passed away peacefully after months of being in the wonderful care of Liberty Hospice of Durham while he was living at Parkview Nursing and Rehab., Legion Road, Chapel Hill, NC. His sister, Judy, was his caregiver and his Healthcare power of Attorney for over 30 years.
Johnny was born...
Wendy Leigh Borland
Feb 22, 2022
Wendy “Pooh” Borland, 53, earned her beautiful wings and joined her parents in her heavenly home on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.
Wendy is preceded in death by her parents, Sam and Gertrude Borland of Cedar Grove. She was the youngest of seven siblings; Dianne Glosson (Larry), Sammy Borland (Betty), Steve Borland, Betty Borland, Bobbi Cabe...
Johnny Edward Harrison
Feb 20, 2022
Johnny “Chico” Edward Harrison passed away peacefully at a place he loved the most, the Durham VA medical center after a battle with cancer on February 20, 2022, at 1800 hours. Johnny was preceded in death by his birth parents George and Evon Harrison Sr., Mom and Daddy Homer and Mattie Riley of Hillsborough, Brother Howard “Rocky” Harrison and...
