Obituaries
Ruth Ellen Staggers Bristow
Jul 25, 2009
Ruth Ellen Staggers Bristow, age 84, died Saturday, July 25, 2009 at Croasdaile Village in Durham, NC. She was born neember 1, 1924 in Waynesburg, PA to the late Thomas W. and Charity Ann Morrow Staggers. Mrs. Bristow was a life-long member of the Methodist Church. Her home church was Clarendoneethodist in Arlington, VA, where she was married in 1946...
Jyotsna Moy Dutta
Jul 25, 2009
Jyotsna Moy Dutta, 74, passed away on Saturday, July 25, 2009. Jyotsna Moy was born in Comilla, Bangladesh to the late Sudhir and Prativa Dutta on 1/11/1935. Jyotsna Moy came to the Uneed States in 1963 as a Fulbright scholar to the Uneersity of Illinois at Urbana Champagne as a Masters student in Physics. Dr. Dutta went on to complete...
Carl Erman Yates, Jr.
Jul 23, 2009
STEM: Carl Erman Yates, Jr. age 62, a resident of Stem, NC died Thursday, July 23, 2009 at his home. He was born March 18, 1947 in Wilson County, son of the late Carl Yates, Sr of Burgaw, NC and the late Doris Walters Yates of Granville County. Mr. Yates graduated from Ralph L. Fike High School in 1965 and...
Vena Gilliam Edwards
Jul 23, 2009
Vena G. Edwards, age 67, of Fairfax, VA, passed qway July 23, 2009. She was a native of Marion, NC and a resident of Faifax, VA for many years. Vena is survived by five sisters and one brother. Mrs. Edwards served ineeveral aspects of Department of the Army personnel operations starting in 1965. She retired from the Office of the...
Mary Johnson Adolf
Jul 23, 2009
Mary Johnson Adolf, 53, died Thursday, July 23, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital. Born in Lowell, MA on July 23, 1956, she was the daughter of Robert W. Johnson and Mary McCue Johnson and was a longtime resident of Durham, NC. Mary loved art and music, but most of all she loved being a mother to her four children. In...
Wilma Carpenter Roberts
Jul 22, 2009
Wilma Carpenter Roberts, age 89, died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital. Wilma was born on August 29, 1919 to the late Luther N and Susie Beam Carpenter. Wilma worked for more than 30 years at General Telephone now Verizon, and for many years as a voluneer interpreter at the Bennett Place Historic Site in Durham. Wilma is...
David Evan Bowman
Jul 22, 2009
Mr. David Evan Bowman, 56, of Thomas Mill Drive, Pittsboro, died July 22, 2009 at WakeMed in Cary. Born April 28, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA, he was the son of Paul Lee Bowman and Frances Ann Watts Bowman. Mr. Bowman was at computer programmer with UNC-Chapel Hill. Survivors include his wife, Christina S. Bowman; son and daughter-in-law, Aaron David...
Charles Wilson Knowles
Jul 20, 2009
Charles Wilson Knowles, age 90, died Monday July 20, 2009 in Durham, NC. He was born in Chapel Hill to the late Charley Brown and Mary Elizabeth Knowles on neember 1, 1918. Mr. Knowles was valedictorian of his 1934 graduating class from Bells High School, in Chatham County, and a long time member of Yates Baptist Church in Durham, NC....
Jeanmarie Farrell Devinney
Jul 18, 2009
Jeanmarie Farrell Devinney died peacefully at home with her loving family by her side after a courageous battle with appendicile cancer on Saturday July 18, 2009. Jeanmarie was borneebruary 6, 1968 and spent her childhood years in Charleston WV, Jacksonville, FL and Raleigh, NC. She graduated from Millbrook High School and Louisburg Jr. College. In 2003 Jeanmarie married Tim and...
Bertha Hopkins Jones
Jul 17, 2009
Bertha Hopkins Jones died peacefully Friday morning, July 17, 2009 in Duke Medical Center. She was 94 years old. Bertha was born in Statesboro, GA oneeptember 6, 1914 to the late Olmstead Key and Sara Barr Hopkins. Bertha spent her early years in Cuba with her parents who were Methodist missionaries, which lead to a lifelong devotion to the Spanish...
Wineed Leroy Mann
Jul 17, 2009
Dateline: Pittsboro Deceased: Wineed Leroy Mann Surrounded by his family at his home, Wineed Leroy Mann, 79, peacefully went to be with the Lord on July 17, 2009. The son of Edna Mann and the late Seaton Mann, Wineed was born on October 23, 1929 in Chatham County. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Foy R. Mann;...
Robert Edward Lassiter, Sr.
Jul 16, 2009
Mr. Robert Edward Lassiter, Sr. 79, died Thursday, July 16, 2009 at the Laurels of Chatham following an extended period of declining health. A native of Robbins, Mr. Lassiter was born April 15, 1930 to W.C. Lassiter, Sr. and Desma Ballard Lassiter. In 1969, Mr. Lassiter relocated to Pittsboro, where he became owner / operator of the Piggly Wiggly grocery...
John Allan Owen
Jul 15, 2009
John Allan Owen, 90, died oneednesday, July 15, 2009. John is survived by his daughters Carol Owen and Janet Klispie; and sons Thomas Owen and Richard Owen. A Memorial Mass will be offered at 10:00 AM on Saturday, July 18, 2009 from Holy Infant Catholic Church, 500 Southpark Drive, Durham. Fr. Joe Brennan, OSFS will officiate. Interment will follow at...
Arthur R. Varga, Sr.
Jul 14, 2009
Arthur R. "Art" Varga, Sr., 85, died July 14, 2009 at his home in Moncure. Mr. Varga was born in Chittenden, VT oneecember 8, 1923, the son of Aneew aneesther Tarsci Varga. Survivors include his wife Barbara D. McKay Varga; sons and daughters, Sandra Levesque, Judith Lamberti, Ronald, Robert, and Arthur Varga; grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons and great granddaughters; and...
Eugene Holland Moore, Iii
Jul 12, 2009
Eugene Holland "Chip" Moore, III, age 57, died peacefully Sunday morning, July 12, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital. A Durham native, Chip was born to the late Beatrice Womble Moore aneeugene Holland Moore, Jr. on August 26, 1951. Chip graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and taught in the Durham Public Schools for 30 years. He played a significant role in the...
Eleanor Puryear Lunsford
Jul 9, 2009
OXFORD: Mrs. Eleanor Puryear Lunsford, age 96, died Thursday, July 9, 2009 at Granville Medical Center. She was a native of Granville County and the daughter of the late John and Betty Overby Puryear. Mrs. Lunsford was a member of Trinity Uneed Methodist Church and a homemaker. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Sunday, July 12, 2009 from...
Jenneer Robertsoneeza
Jul 8, 2009
Jenneer Robertsoneeza died Wednesday evening, July 8, 2009 at Duke Medical Center surrounded by her loving family after a valiant three year battle with cancer. She was 46 years old. Jenny was born in St. Joseph Missouri on July 27, 1962. She graduated from Northern High School in 1980 and was employed by Verizon for many years until her illness....
Stephen Patrick Russell
Jul 4, 2009
Stephen Patrick Russell Stephen Patrick Russell, 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina died in a drowning accident on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at Jordan Lake, North Carolina. Stephen was born on May 22, 1986 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada. He eventually moved from Newfoundland to Alberta, where among his other feats, he played AAA hockey. At the age of eighteen, his...
Charles Chuck Henry Jones
Jul 2, 2009
Charles H. "Chuck" Jones, age 83, died Thursday, July 2, 2009 at Durham Regional Hospital after several years of declining health. He was born in Kinston, NC to the late Ruben Samuel and Cledy Victory Russell Jones on May 15, 1926. Chuck spent most of his adult life in Durham where he worked for 35 years as a district representative...
Lucy Celia Cottrell
Jun 29, 2009
OXFORD: Ms. Lucy Celia Cottrell, age 65, died of cancer on June 29, 2009 at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, NC. Celia was born on January 2, 1944 to the late Sidney and Lucy Frazier Cottrell. As the only girl among three brothers, she held a special place ineer family as she grew up in rural Oxford. In 1987, Celia...
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