Obituaries
Harold Franklin Goodman
Apr 28, 2009
Harold Franklin "Frank" Goodman, 81, of Rock Springs Church Road, Pittsboro, died April 28, 2009 at UNC Hospitals following several years of declining health. Frank was born in Iredell County on April 13, 1928, a son of Harvey Goodman and Nora Josey Goodman. He was retired from the construction industry, where he had worked as a truck driver. Frank was...

Daniel "Dan" Taylor Hester
Apr 26, 2009
OXFORD: Daniel "Dan" Taylor Hester, age 42, died Sunday, April 26, 2009 ineeVey, Switzerland. He was a native of Granville County and graduated from Webb High School in 1986 and attended Vance-Granville Community College. He was the son of Joan Powell Hester and Duward Hester of Oxford. Dan lived in Washington, DC and VeVey, Switzerland with his partner of 13...
Stanley Joseph Mihelick, Jr.
Apr 24, 2009
Stanley Joseph Mihelick, Jr., 79, passed away at Uneersity of North Carolina Medical Center Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Friday, April 24, 2009. He was preceded ineeath by his father, Stanley Joseph Mihelick Sr. and his mother, Anna Marie Osolnick Mihelick. He is survived by his wife Barbara Mae Mihelick, brother John Mihelick, his son Douglas Mihelick, his...
Ruth Auger
Apr 24, 2009
Ruth I. Auger, 99, of Pittsboro, North Carolina, passed away peacefully at home on April 24, 2009. For the first neety-two years of her life, she lived in the Maneester, New Hampshire area. She was born in Goffstown, New Hampshire on April 6, 1910, the daughter of Maurice B. Campbell and Addie Clarabelle Mudge. Until her retirement in 1971, she...
Nell Gilbert Freeman
Apr 23, 2009
Nell G. Freeman, 94, died on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Nell was born in Wake County to the late Lessie and Fletcher Gilbert oneeptember 24, 1914. Nell is survived by her daughter Bonee Nichols; grandson John B. Nichols, III; sister Joyce G. Gilbert of Winston-Salem. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 26, 2009 from...
Flora Belle Wilkinson
Apr 22, 2009
Flora Belle Garrell "Flo" Wilkinson, 83, died oneednesday, April 22, 2009. Flo was born in Wilmington, NC on neember 19, 1925 to James Albert Garrell and Lena Agnes Reece. Flo was a devoted wife and loving mother who delighted ineer family. Her father died when she was five and she spent the next seveneears at Oxford Orphanee with her brother...
Christopher Wayne Marlow
Apr 21, 2009
Mr. Christopher Wayne Marlow, 30, formerly of Chapel Hill, died unexpectedly at his residence in Columbia, SC on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Chris was born in Chapel Hill on March 26, 1979, the son of Jimmy Wayne Marlow and Deborah Lynn Williams Marlow. He was a 1997 graduate of Oak Ridge Military Academy, and served in the US Marine Corps...
Joanna Karolina Park
Apr 19, 2009
Joanna Karolina Zielinska Park died suddenly on April 19, 2009. She was born in Poland on June 26, 1974 to Barbara and Wojciech Zielinski. The family emigrated to the U.S. in 1981 settling first in Riverside, CA , then later ineeno, NV. Joanneearned her PhD in Environmental Science from the Uneersity of North Carolina School of Public Health and she...

Mary Ola Mcalister
Apr 19, 2009
Franklinton: Mary Ola McAlister, age 85 a resident of Franklinton, formerly of Bostic, N, passed away on Sunday April 19, 2009 at her home in Franklinton after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Mary was born on July 13, 1923 in Ellenboro, NC , a daughter of the late Leroy aneessie Dobbins. She was preceded id death by her husband...

Arvie David Matthews
Apr 17, 2009
A.D. MATTHEWS OXFORD- A. D. Matthews, age 77, a resident of Oxford, died Friday April 17, 2009. He was a native of Person County and was the son of the late Willie Stephen and Alma Setzer Matthews. He was preceded ineeath by his wife Mildred Jones Matthews. He was a former member of Knotts Grove Baptist Church. He retired from...

Edith Fowler Averett
Apr 12, 2009
Butner Edith Fowler Averett, 79 formerly of Butner, a resident of Brantwood Nursing Home died Sunday April 12, 2009 at Granville Medical Center. She was a native of Granville County, daughter of the late Mack & Lillian Fowler. Widow of Jerome T. Averett, she was a member of Providence Baptist Church, a retired employee of John Umstead Hospital for 29...
Marjorie Stallcup Watkins
Apr 11, 2009
Marjorie Stallcup Watkins, age 92, died Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Croasdaile Village. Mrs. Watkins first came to Durham as a student at Duke Uneersity where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. In 1940 she received her Master's in Botany from Wellesley College. After raising her family, Mrs. Watkins returned to Duke Uneersity as curator of the...

Laura Jean Adams West
Apr 9, 2009
OXFORD- LAURA JEAN ADAMS WEST, age 75 a resident of Oxford died Thursday April 9, 2009 in Duke Medical Center with loving family by her side. She was a native of Vance Co. and was the daughter of the late Wesley Thaddeus Adams, Sr. and Alton Roosevelt Rooker Adams of Henderson. She was preceded ineeath by her husband, Morris W....
Raymond Hershel Dash
Apr 8, 2009
Raymond H. "Ray" Dash, 48, died at his home in Pittsboro on April 8, 2009 as a result of complications from a prolonged illness. Ray was born in Bryson City, NC on July 4, 1960, the son of Raymond H. Dash, Sr. and Pat Pruitt Dash. He was a graduate of Hunter College, a part of the City Uneersity of...
Louise S. Cooper
Apr 8, 2009
Louise Sullivan Cooper, age 93 died April 8, 2009 at Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. Mrs. Cooper taught American History for a number of years at Durham High School. She was a member of the Tillman Bible class at Watts Street Baptist Church. A charter member of the Theta chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, she was also the Maryland state...

Leah Avery Porterfield
Apr 7, 2009
OXFORD: LEAH AVERY PORTERFIELD- age 3, the daughter of Barry Wayne Porterfield and Barbara Smith Porterfield died Saturday in UNC Children's Hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday April 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM in the New Horizons Baptist Church by the Rev. Cam Ford. Burial will be ineeadowview Memorial Park. Surviving in addition to her parents are, two brothers...

Louise Young Shearin
Apr 6, 2009
OXFORD: Louise Young Shearin, age 82, a resident of Oxford, died Monday, April 6, 2009. She was a native of Franklin County and the daughter of the late James D. Young and Mary Elizabeth Mullin Young. She was the widow of Wilbur Davis Shearin. Mrs. Young was a member of Hester Baptist Church and retired as a secretary for DOT....

Mary Ruth Nelms
Apr 6, 2009
OXFORD: Mary Ruth Nelms, of 126 Pine Cone Drive, died Monday, April 6, 2009. She was a native of Granville Co., attended Louisburg College and she retire as Clerk of Granville County Superior Court after 42 years. She was the daughter of the late Edmund and Blanee Adcock Clark. She was a member of Oxford Baptist Church. Surviving are her...
Grace Winemiller Chambers
Apr 5, 2009
Mrs. Grace Winemiller Chambers, 94, died at her home at Pittsboro Christian Village on Sunday, April 5, 2009. Born in Harrisburg, PA on June 24, 1914, she was a daughter of Joseph and Bertha Shoop Winemiller. Mrs. Chambers was a retired teacher, and was the widow of Oliver Fulton Chambers. She was a member of Pittsboro Bible Assembly. The funeral...

Mary Helen Younge Smith
Apr 5, 2009
Oxford: Mary Helen Younge Smith, age 89, died Sunday, April 5, 2009. She was a native of Granville County and the daughter of the late Edward Ossie and Lizzie Culbreth Smith. She was the widow of Edward E. "Smitty" Smith and a member of Amis Chapel Baptist Church. Graveside service will be held Tuesday, April 7 at 11:00 A.M. at...
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