OBITUARIES
Glenn Anthony Yount, Jr.
Aug 18, 2020
Glenn Anthony (Tony) Yount, 70, of Chapel Hill, passed away after a period of declining health on August 18, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date in Chapel Hill. Tony was born in Concord, North Carolina to Rev. Glenn and Doris Yount on March 15, 1950. He attended high school...
Donna Cheek Quay
Aug 17, 2020
Chapel Hill – Mrs. Donna Cheek Quay died on August 17, 2020 at UNC Hospitals. She was 68. Mrs. Quay was born on June 26, 1952 in Durham, NC to her parents, the late Frances Bowden and W. Toy Cheek. She was a graduate of Chapel Hill High School, and upon graduation, attended Hardbarger Business College in Raleigh, NC....
Daniel Edward Straub
Aug 16, 2020
Daniel “Danny” Straub, 78, passed away at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill on August 16, 2020. Danny was born on October 5, 1941 in Somerset County, NJ. He graduated from Bound Book High School, NJ in 1959. Danny moved to NC in 1959 to attend UNC Chapel Hill. After 2 years of college, he pursued a career with the...
Roger Eugene Robinson
Aug 14, 2020
Roger Eugene Robinson Roger Eugene Robinson passed away at home in his sleep on August 14, 2020, ten days before his 86th birthday. He was born the eldest son of Letha Dean Huber and Carl Eugene Robinson in Carmi, Illinois, on August 24, 1934. While serving in the Air Force, Roger married his sweetheart, Beverly Coale. They had three...
V. Gloria Myers
Aug 14, 2020
V. Gloria Myers, also known as Glo, Nana, and Googie, died on Friday, August 14, 2020 at her home in Fearrington Village. She was born in Plainfield, NJ to Joseph Lucchesi and Maria Gambi Lucchesi. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Larry, who died in 2012. She is survived by 3 sons: Larry and...
Bobby Lou Gentry
Aug 10, 2020
Mr. Bobby Lou Gentry, age 83 passed away on Monday, August 10, 2020, at UNC Hospice in Pittsboro, N.C. He was born on April 2nd, 1937 in Roxboro, N.C. to Lovie Sue Clayton and Willy Louis Gentry. Mr. Gentry owned his own roofing company. He retired in 2008. Mr. Gentry is survived by two daughters Glenda Hoffman (Marty) of...
Joann Davis Kelly
Aug 9, 2020
Joan Ann Davis High Kelly died peacefully at her home in Hillsborough on August 9, 2020 after a brief illness. She was a daughter of Edward J. Davis, Jr., and Katherine Hanna Davis, and wasborn September 18th, 1931 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She grew up in High Point, North Carolina where she met and married Lacy Thacker High. They...
Wayne Bernard Averette
Aug 9, 2020
Wayne Bernard Averette (Buckie), age 71 of Person County, born on a Sunday August 29, 1948 passed away peacefully on Sunday August 9, 2020 at the Hospice Center in Burlington, NC. Wayne was a hard working provider for 21 years at Hillsborough Textiles and a successful business man with his own cleaning service before he fell ill in the...
Dewey Harry Pope
Aug 7, 2020
Dewey Harry Pope, 86, of Cedar Grove, NC passed away peacefully at home on August 7, 2020. Harry was born July 3, 1934 to the late Dewey and Mabel Pope. He was born in Durham, NC but spent 81 years as a member of the Cedar Grove community. He graduated in 1952 from Aycock High School, attended Croft Business...
Zachary James Taylor
Aug 5, 2020
Zachary James Taylor, 33, died unexpectedly at his home on August 5, 2020 in Chapel Hill, NC. Zac was born on June 15, 1987 in Durham, NC to Cindy Mayes and Ron Taylor. He graduated from Chapel Hill High School, and attended Durham Technical Community College, UNC Charlotte, and The Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham. He was self-employed. Zac loved...
Woodrow Samuel Flack
Aug 5, 2020
Woodrow Samuel Flack was born on April 27th, 1954. He passed away on August 6th, 2020 at Duke Regional Hospital after a long battle with multiple health issues. He grew up in Union Mills, NC. He graduated from R S Central Highschool in 1972. One of his proud accomplishments was joining the United States Army. He served from 1972-1976....
Denise Harrison Sills
Aug 5, 2020
Denise Harrison Sills, 56, passed from this life on Wednesday, August 5, 2020, at her home in Chapel Hill, NC. Denise was the oldest of three daughters born to Dennis R. Harrison and Dixie Warren Harrison of Durham, NC. She graduated from Northern Durham High School in 1982 and from North Carolina State University in 1986 with a BS...
Patricia Webster Smith
Aug 5, 2020
Mrs. Patricia Ann Webster Smith, 79 died Wednesday, August 5, 2020. She was the widow of Robert (Bob) Ellis Smith who died in 2016. Pat and her husband were avid Coca-Cola Collectors, belonging to the local Tar Heel Chapter as well as the national Coca-Cola Collectors Club. They traveled nearly all 50 states making friends and memories all along...
Claire Louise (Gingell) Stone
Aug 4, 2020
Claire Louise (Gingell) Stone passed away on Aug 4th at her home in Chapel Hill. Claire was born on June 11th, 1965 in Shoreham, Kent, England, to Michael Gingell and Ann (Stray) Gingell and soon moved to Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. She attended High Wych Church of England Primary School and Leventhorpe Secondary School. In 1979, Claire moved to the United...
Elward Arnold Horton
Aug 4, 2020
Mr. Elward Arnold Horton, 76, husband of Patricia Ann Horton, died Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at UNC Hospital, due to complications from COVID-19. Mr. Horton was born and raised in Chatham County to the late James Brack and Cara Belle Horton. He was employed with IBM for many years, retiring in 1994. He was a longtime and active member...
Cheryl Lynn Cook Blackard
Aug 3, 2020
Cheryl Lynn Cook Blackard, age 60, died peacefully on August 03, 2020 after a battle with cancer. She was a graduate of Person County High School, and served 30+ years as a guidance secretary at Bartlett Yancey Senior High School. She is survived by her parents, Raymond and Sally Cook, her brother and sister-in-law Jeff and Gail Cook (their...
Stanley Harry Roman, Jr.
Aug 1, 2020
Mr. Stanley Harry Roman, Jr., age 65, passed away on Saturday, August 1, 2020. Arrangements are incomplete now. Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough is assisting the Roman family.
Richard Warren Levy
Jul 31, 2020
Richard W. Levy, MD. Physician, art benefactor, dies at 95 Richard W. Levy, former neurosurgeon and art benefactor, died on July 31, 2020 in Pittsboro, North Carolina of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Levy lived a long and full life. Over the course of his 35-year career as a neurosurgeon he saved thousands of lives and brought relief to...
Donna Louise Baker
Jul 31, 2020
Donna St. John Baker was born March 17, 1956, to Carl and Louise St. John of Wilmington, NC, who later became residents of Georgetown, South Carolina. Donna was the second of two children and is survived by her brother, Gary St. John, and his wife, Karen, of Huntersville, NC. Donna graduated from Winyah High School in Georgetown and with...
Rex Allen Bowling
Jul 31, 2020
Rex A. Bowling, 65, of Mebane, NC, passed away comfortably at home, surrounded by loved ones, on July 31, 2020 after a long battle with cancer. After growing up in Kentucky, Rex moved to Florida and became a commercial construction superintendent. Construction of all forms was his calling for many years and he moved to North Carolina to work...
