Obituaries
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...
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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