Obituaries

Frances Bumpass Daniel

Frances Bumpass Daniel

Jun 29, 2009

OXFORD: Frances Bumpass Daniel, age 90 of Oxford, died Tuesday, June 29, 2009. Mrs. Daniel was a native of Granville County and was the daughter of the late Wiley and Julia Timberlake Bumpass. She was a member of Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, a homemaker and a cosmetologist. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM from...

Ruthie Veasey Carpenter

Ruthie Veasey Carpenter

Jun 28, 2009

Mrs. Ruthie Veasey Carpenter, 94, formerly of Aneews Store Road, Pittsboro, died June 28, 2009 at Chapel Hill Health & Rehab. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Granville County on August 28, 1914, a daughter of Oren Judsoneeasey and Susie Anna Weaver Veasey. Mrs. Carpenter was retired from UNC where she worked as a nursing assistant at the campus infirmary. She...

Harold Joseph Joe Huber

Harold Joseph Joe Huber

Jun 22, 2009

Harold Joseph Joe Huber, age 54, died peacefully Monday morning, June 22, 2009 at the Hock Family Pavilion, Duke Homecare and Hospice in Durham. Born in Oneida, WI on April 2, 1955, Joe was the son of Leroy and Pearl Huber and the late Glorideaneeymour. Joe's passion for the outdoors brought him to Jordan Lake for neerous camping and fishing...

Doris W. Williams

Doris W. Williams

Jun 22, 2009

Doris Gray Whitaker Williams, 96, died Monday, June 22, 2009 at Britthaven of Chapel Hill. Born in Durham in 1913, she was the daughter of the late William Edgar Whitaker, Sr. and Anee Pearl Lasater Whitaker. After graduating Durham High School in 1930, Doris attended Duke Uneersity for two years. In 1935, she married Crawford Samuel Williams. In addition to...

Margaret Maggie Middleton

Margaret Maggie Middleton

Jun 18, 2009

Margaret Alice Middleton was born in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 1944 and died June 18, 2009. Since 1981 she resided in Carrboro, NC where she was a violist and played many concerts with various groups in the Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill area. Most notably she was a member of the orchestra for the annual Duke Uneersity Messiah performances....

Charles Warren Lanham, Jr.

Charles Warren Lanham, Jr.

Jun 17, 2009

Charles Warren Lanham Jr. 87 passed away unexpectedly oneednesday, June 17, 2009. He was a resident of Croasdaile Village Retirement Center in Durham. Charles was born in Cumberland, Maryland on January 18, 1922. He was the son of the Reverend Charles and Mary Rawlings Lanham. He spent most of his childhood in Baltimore, MD. In 1943 he graduated from Duke...

Albert Perry Roberts

Albert Perry Roberts

Jun 13, 2009

Albert Perry Roberts, age 44, died Saturday, June 13, 2009, at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Albert was born on March 2, 1965 in Vance County to Joyce Goswick Roberts and the late Arnold Roberts. A member of the Sons of the Legionnaires, Albert was a kind, genee and caring man who developed a strong passion for Chevrolet hot rods...

Mitchell Allen Lane

Mitchell Allen Lane

Jun 12, 2009

OXFORD: Mitchell Allen Lane, age 26 a resident of Oxford died June 12, 2009 in Vance County. A native of Oxford he was the son of Charles Allen and Gail Beal Lane. He was of the Baptist faith and worked in surveying. Funeral services will be held Sunday June 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM ineeace's Chapel Baptist Church by the...

Minee Mccormick Burns

Minee Mccormick Burns

Jun 8, 2009

Mrs. Minee Robert Dixon McCormick Burns, 90 of Bear Creek died June 8, 2009 at The Laurels of Chatham. Born April 4, 1919 at home in Chatham County, she was a daughter of Charles Franklin and Katie Mae Smith McCormick. Mrs. Burns was a retired seamstress, but had earlier operated Pickard's Department Store for a number of years. She was...

Col. John R. Dopler, Usmc Ret.

Col. John R. Dopler, Usmc Ret.

Jun 8, 2009

Col. John Robert Dopler, USMC Retired, died June 8, 2009 in his Fearrington Village home in Pittsboro, NC. Born neember 3, 1929 in East Liverpool, Ohio, Col. Dopler was the son of Harold E. Dopler and Anncille Minerva McDaniel Dopler. He received his degree in Accounting and Finance from Miami Uneersity, Oxford, OH in 1951. Col. Dopler enlisted in the...

Kiran Paul Zota-Stull

Kiran Paul Zota-Stull

Jun 7, 2009

A shooting star streaked beyond the earthly horizon on January 1, 2012, with the death of Durhamite Kiran Paul Zota-Stull. Kiran, age two and one-half, was the ever loving son of Sejal Zota and Brian Stull and steadfast companion of his five-year old brother Kabir. He died in a tragic accident travelling with his family in Mumbai, India. Born in...

Jerry Thomas Newcomb

Jerry Thomas Newcomb

Jun 5, 2009

OXFORD: Jerry Thomas Newcomb, age 71, died Friday, June 5, 2009 at his home in Kittrell. Mr. Newcomb was born in Granville County on March 8, 1938 and was the son of the late Wiley Fleming Newcomb and Mary Humphries Newcomb. He was a member of Gray Rock Uneed Methodist Church and a retired farmer and mechanic. Funeral services will...

Norma Neems Horton

Norma Neems Horton

Jun 4, 2009

Mrs. Norma Neems Horton, 66, of Farrington Point Road, Chapel Hill, died peacefully ineer home Thursday afternoon, June 4, 2009 following a period of declining health. A native of Orange County, Mrs. Horton was born in Hillsborough on June 24, 1942, the daughter of A. V. Neems and Texxie Squires Neems. Mrs. Horton was the owner/operator of Norma's Houskeeping cleaning...

Doris Poole Watkins

Doris Poole Watkins

Jun 4, 2009

OXFORD/RALEIGH Doris Poole Watkins, age 96, a resident of Springmoor's Stewart Health Center died June 4, 2009. She was born in Virgilina, VA on July 4, 1912. She was the daughter of the late Charles Grey Poole and Mae Gregory Poole. She attended St. Mary's Jr. College and UNCG, she then taught at the Uneersity of Alabama. After her marriage...

James William Bill Garrett

James William Bill Garrett

Jun 3, 2009

James William "Bill" Garrett, age 86, died Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at Wake Med Hospital. Bill was born in Vance County to the late Nolan and Mabel Morton Garrett on March 3, 1923. He proudly served his country during WWII in the U.S. Air Force. Bill was a member of Perry's Chapel Baptist Church and the Americaneegion Post 52. He...

Virginia Dare Tilley

Virginia Dare Tilley

Jun 3, 2009

Virginia Dare Tilley, 95, died peacefully Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at her residence in Croasdaile Village. Miss Tilley was born in High Point, NC, on August 25, 1913, to the late Adolphus P. and Fanee M. Malone Tilley. She was a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College, class of 1934. Miss Tilley was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority,...

Jerry Auburn Grady

Jerry Auburn Grady

May 31, 2009

Jerry Auburn Grady May 1, 1951 - May 31, 2009 Jerry died at home, Sunday Morning, surrounded by his family, and loved ones. Jerry had only been ill for the last four weeks of his life, with Stage IV Paneeatic Cancer. Jerry was born in Durham NC and attended the Durham County Schools. He joined the Air Force in 1969....

Karen Susie Kirkland

Karen Susie Kirkland

May 31, 2009

Karen Susanne "Susie" Kelly Kirkland, 48, passed away Sunday, May 31, 2009 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount after a valiant year-long battle with breast cancer. Born in Durham, NC, Susie was the daughter of the late Banks C. Kelly, Jr. and Mary Strickland Kelly. Susie will be remembered as a loving wife, devoted mother and sweet sister. Surviving...

Eugene Harry Thomas

Eugene Harry Thomas

May 29, 2009

Mr. Eugene Harry Thomas, 89, of Cardinal Ct., Pittsboro died May 29, 2009 at The Laurels of Chatham. Mr. Thomas was born ineedalia, MO on May 7, 1920, the son of Lester Thomas and Arlene Pearl Mettler Thomas. He graduated from Washington Uneersity in St. Louis, and served in the Pacific with the US Army during World War II. Following...

Hazel Wimberly Brown

Hazel Wimberly Brown

May 27, 2009

Mrs. Hazel Wimberly Brown, 85, of Pittsboro died May 27, 2009 at Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. Mrs. Brown was a Chatham County native, borneecember 6, 1923 to Charles Green Wimberly and Maude Hearn Wimberly. She was a homemaker who enjoyed gardening, reading, and sewing. She is survived by her daughter, Debbie Picket of Pittsboro; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a...

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