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Sarah Stewart
Feb 4, 2020
Sarah Rood Stewart died Tuesday, February 4 after suffering from dementia for many years. She was 77. Sarah was born in Athens, Ohio to Robert and Kathryn Rood. Her family moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1953 and Sarah was a graduate of the East High Class of 1960. She attended the Ohio State University and after graduating, she moved...
Mary Price
Feb 4, 2020
Chapel Hill's love affair with Mary Jane Price ended on February 3rd, 2020, as she passed away peacefully at the Dubose Center in Chapel Hill at the age of 83. Mary Jane lived her life as if she were in a hurry to make as many friends as possible. Fiercely supportive of her sons, Tripp and Ken, and her...
Norman Murray
Feb 2, 2020
Norman Earl Murray, 82 of Durham passed away in Durham on February 2, 2020. Mr. Murray was a member of the U.S. Army and he loved to sing and perform with friends and colleagues. Norman was born to Gattis Herbert Murray and Mittie Mabel Simpson. He is survived by his wife and best friend: Lou Hunt Murray; Sisters: Janet...
Delois Jones
Feb 1, 2020
DeLois Jean Jones died Saturday, February,1st at the ICU Burn Center at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She is survived by her sister, Joyce Jones Smith of Burnet, Texas, and Waldo Clyde Jones, Richmond, VA., and her son Madison, of Columbia, SC. The Family plans a private Memorial Service for her as soon as arrangements are completed. Memorials may...
Robert Mason
Jan 31, 2020
Robert “Bob” Grant Mason died on January 31, 2020 in Durham, NC due to complications following pneumonia. He was 91 years old. Mr. Mason was born in 1929 in New Jersey. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1946. He graduated from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science in...
Thomas Murray Isley
Jan 30, 2020
Liberty, NC – Thomas (Thom) Murray Isley passed away to his heavenly home on January 30, 2020, with his family by his side. Mr. Isley is survived by his wife of 43 years, Rena Maness Isley of the home and the son of the late William “Bill” Jackson Isley and Betty Jean Nicholson Isley. Mr. Isley was a former...
Edith Johnson
Jan 30, 2020
Mrs. Edith K. Johnson, a resident of Durham, North Carolina passed away on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the age a 78. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough is assisting the Johnson family.
Erline Terrell
Jan 30, 2020
Mrs. Erline Harrison Terrell of Hillsborough, NC, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the age of ninety-five. She passed away at her residence surrounded by her family. She was born on March 30, 1924, to the late Claude and Ada Harrison in Atalla, Alabama. She was preceded in death...
Mary Robinson
Jan 30, 2020
Mary Alice Lloyd Robinson passed away suddenly at her home on Thursday, January 30th 2020. Mary Alice was born on May 13, 1932 and was raised in the Turner Strudwick house in downtown Hillsborough, NC and spent her entire life in Hillsborough. Most of it on the same block on which she was born. Mary Alice was born to...
Pearl Daisy Edwards
Jan 27, 2020
Pearl Daisy Shanklin Edwards, 95 of Efland passed away on January 27, 2020. Pearl was a member of the Quarter Century Club at Dixie Yarns and a lifetime member of Lebanon United Methodist Church in Efland. She was preceded in death by her parents, Murdock and Lula Shanklin; husband, Alexander G. Edwards; brother, Willie Shanklin; brother in law, Hubert...
Jane Parr
Jan 26, 2020
Jane Bolstad Parr died with grace at Carolina Meadows on January 26, 2020 at the age of 97. Born in New London, Minnesota in 1922, she met her husband, Robert G Parr (d. 2017) at the University of Minnesota when they were graduate students. They successfully navigated 72 years of marriage, living in Pittsburgh and Baltimore before choosing Chapel...
Gina Carroll
Jan 26, 2020
Gina Lynn Carroll, 51, left a crater in the hearts of many when she departed this world Sunday morning, January 26, 2020 at her home in Graham, North Carolina. Through this grief, let us take some time to honor this once bright light that has faded too soon. Gina was born at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill and graduated...
Samuel Borland
Jan 24, 2020
Samuel W. Borland, Sr., 94, of Cedar Grove, passed away in the comfort of his home Friday, January 24, 2020, following a brief illness. Sam was preceded in death by his wife, Gertrude Parker Borland, as well as his parents, Wallace and Mary Boland, brothers, Hughes Boland and John Boland and great-granddaughter, Christy Brown Johnson. During WWII, he proudly...
Sydney Mabe
Jan 22, 2020
Sydney Nichole Mabe, 23 unexpectedly passed away, Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at her home in Hurdle Mills. She was born in Chapel Hill, the daughter of the late Anita Simmons and Frank Simmons. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her grandparents, Roy and Linda Blackwood. In addition to her father, she is survived by...
Elinor George
Jan 21, 2020
The Lord must have needed another angel. Elinor A George died of cancer on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. She was 83. Ellie’s entire life revolved around the quiet good things…raising sons, loving grandkids, gardening and reaching out to anyone who needed her touch. To her family, she made the simplest things special, whether it was childhood owl cookies or...
Norma Stock
Jan 21, 2020
Norma York Stock passed away on January 21, 2020 of natural causes in Chapel Hill. She was born Norma Aline York on 25 August 1924 to the late D.D. York and Ethel Kuykendall York in Haywood County, North Carolina. Norma grew up in the North Carolina mountains with three sisters and two brothers during the Great Depression. After graduating...
Cheslava Mann
Jan 17, 2020
Czesia (aka Jessie) Mann died peacefully at her home in Chatham County on January 17, a few weeks short of her 96th birthday. She leaves an extended family behind to mourn her passing, as well as many neighbors and friends who over time became her family as well. Born Czeslawa Idzikowska in Makowarsko, a village in the Pomerania region...
Samuel Wilburn, Jr.
Jan 16, 2020
Samuel Webster Wilburn Jr. died on January 16, 2020 at UNC Hospital. He was 90 years old. Sam was born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, the youngest of four to Iris and Samuel Wilburn. He joined the Navy as a medical corpsman and was stationed in Annapolis, Maryland and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 1953, he completed studies in bacteriology at...
Richard Smith
Jan 15, 2020
Mr. Richard Fenton Smith, age 69, passed away at his home in Chapel Hill on January 15, 2020. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assisting the Smith family.
Edith Tyndall
Jan 14, 2020
Edith Marie Carroll Tyndall, age 73, died Tuesday, January 14, 2020. She was a native of Durham and a retired employee of Orange County Schools. She was the owner and operator of ‘Kids Unlimited Daycare Centers’ for ten years. Wife of the late Curtis L. Tyndall, Jr. to whom she shared her life with for 47 years. She is...
