OBITUARIES
Dot B. Sutton
Feb 2, 2019
Dorothy Brigman Sutton The daughter of farmers she was born near Rowland, NC October 30, 1931. As a teenager she was well known locally for singing in the church and her interest in music. She was often asked to sing for funerals and since her family didn’t own a car people would drive out from town to pick her...
Louise Roberts
Feb 1, 2019
Chapel Hill – Mrs. Louise Ray Roberts, 91, wife of the late David B. Roberts, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 1, 2019. Mrs. Roberts was born on November 17, 1927 in Burnsville, NC. She attended Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC. She was a longtime member of Orange United Methodist Church. Mrs. Roberts was the co-owner of...
Mary Hill
Feb 1, 2019
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” --Julia Child Mary Hill loved three things more than anything else: Watts Hill Jr., her children, and her dogs. Outside of her immediate family, Mary especially enjoyed cooking and traveling with friends. She died on Feb 1, 2019, after a full life. Born...
Elaine Pfeiffer
Feb 1, 2019
Mrs. Elaine Viola Hopp Pfeiffer, 89, died Friday, February 1, 2019. Arrangements incomplete. Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough
Avery Leroy "Lee" Howard
Jan 28, 2019
Avery Leroy “Lee” Howard, 81 of Graham, formally of Hillsborough, died peacefully at his home on January 28, 2019. Mr. Howard was a native of Cleveland county and retired from Blythe Construction as a highway Superintendent. Mr. Howard was proceeded in death by his parents Roy and Jessie Howard. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn Howard; Daughters, Vone...
Harold Strayhorn
Jan 28, 2019
Mr. Harold W. Strayhorn, 77, died peacefully on January 28, 2019, in Presbyterian Home, Hawfields. He lived his life in Hillsborough and was a long time client of Orange Enterprises. Harold was the fourth child of Herman H. and Lucille W. Strayhorn. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother-in-law, Burch Compton. He is survived by his sisters...
Beatrice Jones
Jan 27, 2019
Beatrice K. Jones passed away Sunday, January 27, 2019 in Hillsborough, NC. She had just celebrated her 92nd birthday on January 6th. Bea Bea, as she was affectionally known by family and friends, was retired from Kaiser Roth in Burlington, NC. She was a lifelong resident of Hillsborough and lifelong member of Eno United Methodist Church. She was also...
James Mccallum
Jan 23, 2019
Mr. James Richard “Dick” McCallum, a resident of Durham passed away at Duke Regional Hospital on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at the age of 94 years old. Dick was born in Ripley, TN on July 30, 1924 to the late R.B. and Bess McCraw McCallum. He worked for many years as a plaster contractor in the Durham area. Dick...
Felix Germuth
Jan 23, 2019
Felix Creighton Germuth passed away on January 23, 2019 having recently celebrated her 91st birthday with family and friends. Born in Winston-Salem, NC, she attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, NC as part of the first class of women. Among other things she was a mother, homemaker, pet owner, voracious reader of history and politics, and a competitive...
Jill Galloway
Jan 22, 2019
Jill Foltz Craver Galloway, 81, died peacefully at her home on January 22nd 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, due to cancer. She was born on December 7th, 1937 in Winston-Salem, NC to Sarah and Schallert Foltz. She was the second of their three children. She was a graduate of Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina and...
Bratcher Evans
Jan 22, 2019
Mr. Bratcher Warren Evans, 95, died Tuesday, January 22, 2019. He was a native of Orange County and attended St. Mary's School. He first worked with a saw mill and next with Bellevue Mills and retired from Western electric in Burlington. He started the Council of Aging and was the bus driver which he really enjoyed. His greatest joy...
Josephine Moura
Jan 21, 2019
Josephine Laura Moura (Jo) passed away peacefully of natural causes on January 21, 2019 at the youthful age of 95. In 2007, at the age of 84, and in order to be closer to family, Jo and Art moved from Venice, FL (where they had retired to from Brazil) to Fearrington Village, NC, and created yet another beautiful, comfortable...
Joseph Pilarski
Jan 20, 2019
Mr. Joseph Carl Pilarski, 61, died Sunday, January 20, 2019. He was a native of Orange County and attended the Chapel Hill Schools. He was a beekeeper and sold honey. He enjoyed working with the bees and his family. Surviving are his father, Jerome M. Pilarski, Sr., two sisters: Karen P. Herndon and Katherine P. Scott, and his brother,...
Frances Mears
Jan 19, 2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Frances R. Mears, an Associated Press reporter, editor and bureau chief during a journalism career that spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday. She was 66. Mears had been ill with cancer, said her husband, Walter R. Mears, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political writer and retired AP vice president. After more than a decade in...
James Wilson
Jan 18, 2019
Professor James Frank (“Jim”) Wilson, aged 85, died Friday, January 18, at the Hock Memorial Pavilion of Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, after a long, joyful and successful life. Jim was born in Buffalo, New York, on May 26, 1933, the first son of Elma Peck and James Thomas Manning (“J. T. M.”) Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. As...
Frieda Summers
Jan 17, 2019
Mrs. Frieda Maria Summers, 82, died January 17, 2019 at her daughter's residence in Raleigh. Funeral services will be held in Augusta, Georgia, at a day and time to be announced. A full obituary will be published as soon as it is completed. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assiting the Summers family.
Charmyne Keary
Jan 17, 2019
Charmyne T. Keary died on 17 Jan 2019. The cause of death was cancer of the lung. Born in Clewiston, FL she moved with her family to Cali, Colombia in South America where she went to school in both Spanish and English and later was a simultaneous translator. She also taught Spanish and English in schools around the world....
Patricia Ann Drumheller
Jan 15, 2019
Patricia Mitchell Drumheller Pat completed her six year long battle with a severe form of dementia in the late evening hours of January 15, 2019 at home in Mebane surrounded by family and caretakers at the age of 63. She was born on October 28, 1955 in Watts Hospital in Durham to DeWitt and Belle Mitchell. Pat graduated from...
Larry Copley
Jan 14, 2019
Mr. Larry Carrington Copley, 79, died Monday, January 14, 2019. He was born in Durham to Mary and Thomas Copley. He attended the Durham County Schools. He farmed and was employed at Erwin Mills. He married Myrtle Copley and lived in Durham until they moved to Hillsborough in 1985. He worked for Earl Latta and later retired from N.C....
Marvin Seagroves
Jan 14, 2019
Marvin Lewis Seagroves Durham Mr. Marvin Lewis Seagroves, 81 died in his home and made his journey to his heavenly father Monday January 14th. He was born the son of the late Marvin (Dandy) and Virgie (Mema) Seagroves on June 27th 1937 in Durham. He is survived by his wife Helen Seagroves of Durham; one son Johnny Ware of...
