Obituaries

Julius Samuel Adcock, Jr.

Julius Samuel Adcock, Jr.

Mar 15, 2013

Julius Samuel Adcock Jr., 83, of Durham died Friday, March 15, 2013. A native of Durham he was borneecember 19, 1929 to the late Julius Samuel Adcock Sr. and Ruby Godwin Adcock. Mr. Adcock was educated in the Durham City Schools and was a graduate of the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a veteraneerving in the...

Frederick Spencer Wiggins

Frederick Spencer Wiggins

Mar 12, 2013

Fredrick Spencer Wiggins, 66, died at Durham Regional Hospital on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A native of Durham, NC, Freddie was born August 9th, 1946, son of the late Joseph Spencer Wiggins & Thelma Doby Wiggins. As a boy, he achieved Eagle Scout status. Those skills would greatly assist him as he honorably served as an aircraft mechanic in the...

James Jim M. Schmidt

James Jim M. Schmidt

Mar 12, 2013

DURHAM-James Michael "Jim" Schmidt, 69, died Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at his residence. Born oneept. 24, 1943 in Louisville, KY he was the son of the late Albert Michael Schmidt and Helen Catherine Dieckman. Jim graduated from Trinity High School in Louisville, KY in 1961, and Bellarmine Uneersity, also in Louisville, in 1972. He continued his education at Duke Uneersity...

George Ivey Day

George Ivey Day

Mar 11, 2013

Mr. George Ivey Day, age 66 of Oxford, died Monday, March 11, 2013 at Brantwood Nursing Center. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late George Robert Day and Janie Bowling Day. George Ivey was a member of Salem Uneed Methodist Church, a retired veteran of the U.S. Army, the National Guard and DBW Construction Co....

Dorothy Nicholson Rogers

Dorothy Nicholson Rogers

Mar 11, 2013

OXFORD: Dorothy Nicholson Rogers, of Oxford, died Monday, March 11, 2013 in Wake County. A native of Newport News, VA, she was the daughter of the late G. C. Nicholson and Zora Allen Nicholson and widow of Eugene Rogers. Dorothy was a member of Oxford Uneed Methodist Church where she served as secretary. She was also a member of the...

Essie Lee Edwards

Essie Lee Edwards

Mar 7, 2013

Essie Lee Edwards, 82, died Thursday, March 7, 2013 at her residence. Essie is survived by her daughter, Danita Edwards of Durham; her grandson, Reggie Edwards and his fianeeacute; Kristin Vaughan of Durham; her granddaughter, Phylice Edwards of Durham; and her great grandson, Harlan Cortez Vaughan-Edwards; as well as a host of family and friends. A Mass of Christian Burial...

John Michael Yates

John Michael Yates

Mar 6, 2013

Dr. John Michael Yates, age 76, of Chapel Hill, NC, formerly of Shelby, NC, died on March 6, 2013. Born oneecember 20, 1936, in Malton, Yorkshire, England, he was the son of the late John and Joaneeslie Yates. He is survived by his loving wife of forty eight years, Eilean Donan Yates, and daughters and their spouses, Julie Yates and...

Ronee Lee Mason

Ronee Lee Mason

Mar 6, 2013

Mr. Ronee Lee Mason, 56, of Apex, died March 6, 2013 in his home as his family surrounded him in prayer. Ronee was born in Orange County on July 9, 1956, the son of Brodie Lee Mason, Jr. aneelizabeth "Lib" McCoy Mason. He was a faithful Christian man, and attended New Hope Church as long as his health permitted. Ronee...

Waverly Hobgood Barnes

Waverly Hobgood Barnes

Mar 4, 2013

OXFORD: Waverly Hobgood Barnes, Sr. died March 4, 2013 at Duke Medical Center. He was a native of Granville Co. and was the son of the late George Robert and Mamie Hobgood Barnes. Waverly was a retired farmer and dairy operator, and former employee of Hilltop Lumber Company. He was a member of Tabbs Creek Baptist Church, former deacon and...

Kathleen "Kathy" Munson

Kathleen "Kathy" Munson

Mar 2, 2013

Kathleen "Kathy" Munson, 64, died on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Kathy was born in Camp LeJeune, NC to John Duane and Agnes Boyle Case on neember 17, 1948. Kathy had an abiding interest in astrology, a love of home and office organization, and an eneess generosity of spirit. She was known for her intense, intimate conversations aimed at making a...

Edna Dollar Wood

Edna Dollar Wood

Mar 1, 2013

Edna Dollar Wood, 86, died on Friday, March 01, 2013. Edna was born in Wake County, NC to the late Ruby Dollar Whitaker West and Junius C. Dollar on January 17, 1927. Mrs. Wood had been a Durham resident for most of her life. She was a graduate of Durham High Class of 1945, member of Aldersgate Uneed Methodist Church,...

Joseph Walker Garrard

Joseph Walker Garrard

Feb 28, 2013

Joseph Walker Garrard II, 97, died at 1:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at his home. Mr. Garrard was born in Durham County oneebruary 11, 1916, a son of Isaac Marion Garrard and Lonie Grey Sanford. He was preceded ineeath by his wife, Minee Boddie Green, his son, Isaac Marion Garrard, II, his sister, Lucille G. Dunnagan, his two...

Rev. David Q. Garrison

Rev. David Q. Garrison

Feb 24, 2013

Rev. David Q. Garrison, 74, of Durham, died peacefully on Monday, February 24th 2013, surrounded by his family. A native of the Steele Creek community near Charlotte, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Salutatorian of the 1961 class of the Uneersity of North Carolina, where he was also President of the Westmineer Fellowship. While attending graduate school for mathematics at...

Ana Maria Kennedy

Ana Maria Kennedy

Feb 23, 2013

DURHAM-Ana Maria Kennedy, 61, of Durham died Saturday, February 23, 2013 at home. Ana was the daughter of the late Antonio Beamud and Anita Piera Beamud. Born in Queens, New York, she earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Spanish from the State Uneersity of New York at Albany and a Ph.D. in Golden Age Literature from Duke Uneersity. She taught...

William Obie Harmon

William Obie Harmon

Feb 17, 2013

Mr. William Obie Harmon, 85, of Old Graham Road, Pittsboro, died February 17, 2013 at UNC Hospitals following a period of declining health. Born in Pittsboro oneeptember 21, 1927, Obie was the son of James Wesley Harmon and Dollie Battle Lilly Harmon. Obie served in the US Army in Korea; and, worked as a foreman at Kayser-Roth hosiery at the...

Mamie Herring Mullins

Mamie Herring Mullins

Feb 16, 2013

RALEIGH: Mamie Herring Mullins, age 89, of Raleigh, died on Saturday, February 16, 2013. A native of Granville County, she was the daughter of the late Robert Roscoe and Anee Bryaneerring. Mamie was a member of Hayes Barton Baptist Church where she was a member of the Townsend Class. She was a former school teacher and a homemaker. Graveside memorial...

Stephen Scott Taylor

Stephen Scott Taylor

Feb 15, 2013

Stephen Scott Taylor, 53, of Durham, North Carolina went to be with the lord after a long courageous battle with cancer, on Friday, February 15, 2013 at Duke Hospital with his family by his side. Mr. Taylor was born ineeston, West Virginia, oneeptember 27, 1959 to the late Austin Taylor and Lois E. Taylor of Fort Myers, FL. Stephen grew...

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee

Feb 13, 2013

Betsy Jane Lawrence Huckabee died Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at Durham Regional Hospital. A Durham native, she was born June 28, 1926 to Telphor Hinton Lawrence and Lottie Riley Lawrence. She lived in Richmond Virginia from 1952 to 1970 when she and her loving husband of fifty years, Edgar Bowen Huckabee, returned to Durham. Mrs. Huckabee graduated from Durham High...

Wayne D. Tingen

Wayne D. Tingen

Feb 7, 2013

BULLOCK: Wayne Tingen, age 63 of Bullock, died Thursday, February 07, 2013. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late Wilton H. and Coreen Faucette Tingen. Mr. Tingen was a member of Marrow's Chapel Uneed Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conduct at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Marrow's Chapel Uneed Methodist Church...

Wilma Burns Hearn

Wilma Burns Hearn

Feb 7, 2013

Mrs. Wilma Gray Burns Hearn, 85, died February 7, 2013 at the Laurels of Chatham. Mrs. Hearn was born August 7, 1927 in Chatham County, the daughter of Garland Burns and Kate Brown Burns. Mrs. Hearn was a homemaker, but had also worked at UNC Hospital; as well as providing home health care. She was a member of Gum Springs...

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