Obituaries

Mary Catherine Hines Roberson

Mary Catherine Hines Roberson

Dec 7, 2013

Our sweet Mary Catherine Hines Roberson spread her angel wings at her residence on Saturday, December 7, 2013 after over a year of being diagneed with paneeatic cancer. She was born to Edgar Miller Hines and Sarah Jane Borland on June 11, 1931, in Orange County, NC. She was known for her sweet and selfless soul. She always had a...

Clyde Leslie Strickland

Clyde Leslie Strickland

Dec 6, 2013

Clyde Leslie Strickland BUTNER Clyde Leslie Strickland, age 89 of 311 16th Street died Friday December 6th 2013 at E.E. Toney Rest Home in Oxford NC. Clyde was born October 9, 1924 in Vance County to the late William Nathaniel and Maggie Bell Grissom Strickland. Clyde was a member of First Baptist Church in Butner, NC. He was retired with...

Genevieve Annette Weisbecker

Genevieve Annette Weisbecker

Dec 5, 2013

Genevieve Annette Weisbecker: 83, died Thursday, December 5, 2013. She was born oneebruary 8, 1930 to Daniel and Anna Louise Klink Murphy in Omaha, Nebraska. She attended Duchesne Academy in Omaha, Nebraska, and received a nursing degree from St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. After raising five children, Genevieve worked for 17 years as a Registered Nurse in the Medical...

Mary Carol Johnson

Mary Carol Johnson

Dec 2, 2013

DURHAM-Mary Carol Johnson, 67, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2013 at Hock Family Pavilion in Durham, NC. Born on April 24, 1946, Ms. Johnson was the daughter of the late Albert Richard aneedith Arnold Johnson. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church and a long-time resident of Durham. Carol is survived by her brother, Al Johnson and wife...

Joseph Lake Mclaurin

Joseph Lake Mclaurin

Nov 27, 2013

Oxford, NC: Joseph Lake "Joe" McLaurin, 62 of Oxford died Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013. A native of Surry County, son of the late Daniel Archie McLaurin, Jr. and Mary Margaret Templeton McLaurin. An active member of the Oxford Uneed Methodist Church, a retired employee of Wesco Heating and Air, he was president of the Trianee Chapter of the Bladder Cancer...

Clifford Charles Smith

Clifford Charles Smith

Oct 31, 2013

Clifford Charles Smith, PhD, 69, died peacefully on Thursday evening, October 31, 2013, at Hock Family Pavilion within the services of Duke Home Care & Hospice in Durham, NC, following a long battle with prostate cancer. Cliff was born in Cuyahoga County, OH to the late Charles J. and Lois Hopkinson Smith on October 14, 1944. Cliff was a three-time...

Willie Ray Adcock

Willie Ray Adcock

Oct 31, 2013

OXFORD: Mr. Willie Ray Adcock, age 90, died Thursday, October 31, 2013 at his home. He was a native of Granville County and the son of the late Emmett Abson and Nettie Howard Adcock and his step-mother Teresa Resa Pruitt. Willie Ray was a member of Hester Baptist church, where he served on many church committees, including deacon, Trustee and...

Catherine Gowing O'Foghludha

Catherine Gowing O'Foghludha

Oct 30, 2013

Catherine Gowing O'Foghludha, 88, of Durham, N.C. and Cloneeagh, Dublin, Ireland, died on October 30, 2013 in Durham, surrounded by her loving family. Known to her friends and relatives as Kit, she was born neember 15, 1924 in Killeen House, near Daingean, Co. Offaly, to John Christopher Gowing and Margaret Brereton. She was educated in the Loreto Convent in Bray,...

John Fletcher Mann

John Fletcher Mann

Oct 29, 2013

Mr. John Fletcher Mann, 88, of River Road in Pittsboro died October 29, 2013 at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. Mr. Mann was born in Chatham County on March 23, 1924, the son of Wardeneesley Mann and Daisy Dean Thompson Mann. He attended Bynum School, and theneent to work at UNC. He later went to work with Carolina Telephone Company,...

Cynthia Mackie Wright

Cynthia Mackie Wright

Oct 28, 2013

Cynthia Mackie Gottberg Wright passed away on October 28, 2013. Cindy was born on neember 17, 1962 in Portland, Maine to Jacqueline and the late Thomas Mackie. After graduating from Kennebunk High School, she moved to Florida to attend college. Having returned to NC, she met and married Darren Wright. Cindy then earned a Paralegal degree from Central Carolina Community...

Carolyn Dement Thaxton

Carolyn Dement Thaxton

Oct 28, 2013

OXFORD:  Carolyn Thaxton died on October 28, 2013 after a brief battle with cancer. A native of Granville County, she was born on Christmas Day in 1933 to William Edward and Sophia Ivey Dement on their first wedding anniversary. 

Carolyn spent her entire life living and working in Oxford and retired from Oxford Heating and Cooling, a business she owned and...

Robert "Bob" Lewis Tesh

Robert "Bob" Lewis Tesh

Oct 26, 2013

OXFORD: Robert Lewis Bob Tesh, died October 26, 2013 at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham. He was a native of Guilford Co. and was the son of the late Russell Lewis and Katherine Hunter Tesh. He was of the Lutheran faith. Mr. Tesh retired from the NC Army National Guard after 35 five years of service. He worked from 1959...

Stephen Clifford White

Stephen Clifford White

Oct 21, 2013

Stephen Clifford "Steve" White, Jr. 67 passed away on October 21, 2013 at the North Carolina Jaycee Burneenter at the Uneersity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC after 80 days in a coma brought on by burn wounds suffered in a tragic accident at his family farm on August 3, 2013. Steve battled through burns over 30% of his...

Nancy Noble Mcneill

Nancy Noble Mcneill

Oct 19, 2013

Nancy N. McNeill, of Durham, died peacefully on Saturday, October 19, 2013 in Croasdaile Methodist Retirement Home at age 91. The native of Dayton, Ohio, was the daughter of Dr. Charles G. Noble, M.D. and Alice B. Noble. After graduation from Flushing High School ineew York, she graduated from Hunter College, and served as a Wave during WWII where she...

Steve Brent Morton

Steve Brent Morton

Oct 17, 2013

Steve Brent Morton, 60, passed away on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at Hospice of Wake County. Steve was born in Granville County to the late Elmo and Thelma Dickerson Morton on August 20, 1953. Steve was a hard worker, a wonderful brother, a special unee to Scott, Dusty and Kim and loved to grow vegetables and share with his special...

Willie E. Ellis

Willie E. Ellis

Oct 16, 2013

Mr. Willie Eugeneellis, 87, formerly of Sanford died October 16, 2013 at The Laurels of Chatham in Pittsboro. Mr. Ellis was born in Chatham County on April 9, 1926. He was one of eleven children born to John aneedna Johnson Ellis. Mr. Ellis retired from Federal Paperboard Company now International Paper. Following his retirement, he worked part-time for Hardees. He...

Weldon Ray Crabtree

Weldon Ray Crabtree

Oct 15, 2013

Weldon "Ray" Crabtree, age 65, died Tuesday, October 15, 2013. A Durham native, Ray was born to the late Earsey W. and Heleneeneen Crabtree oneecember 30, 1947. He was employed by Duke Hospital before his retirement several years ago. Ray is survived by his two sons, Justin Crabtree and wife, Ashley, of Bahama, NC; Eric Crabtree of Hillsborough, NC; and...

Mary Coley Ingold

Mary Coley Ingold

Oct 15, 2013

Oxford: Mary Coley Ingold of Stem, NC passed away on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. She was born neember 2, 1930 in Stem to Nelson L. and Salena Flowler Coley who preceded her ineeath. Her loving husband, Sidney Ingold also preceded her ineeath. Mary Frances is survived by a sister like friends; Wilma Tunstall, Patricia Elliott and Iris Farabow are long...

Addie Dease Hobgood

Addie Dease Hobgood

Oct 14, 2013

OXFORD: Addie Dease Hobgood, age 76, died at her home surrounded by her family, on Monday, October 14, 2013 after an extended illness. She was a longtime resident of Oxford, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and a great grandmother. A native of Halifax, VA, she was the daughter of the late Lynwood and Maggie Dease. Addie was a member of...

William Boydeneesperman

William Boydeneesperman

Oct 9, 2013

William Boydeneesperman, 84, died October 9, 2013 at Cambridge Hills Assisted Living in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He was born to the late John Thomas Boydeneesperman and Katherine neella Moose Fesperman, February 18, 1929, in Rocky Mount, NC. Bill graduated from J.W. Cannon High School and received a B.S. from Davidson College and went on to receive a Masters from Springfield...

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