Obituaries
Hazel Gray Baucom
Aug 17, 2007
Hazel Gray Baucom, age 85, died Friday, August 17, 2007, at the Carolina House in Durham. The daughter of Estes L. And Nell Stevens Baucom, Miss Baucom was born in Cary, NC and moved to Durham as a child. She was a graduate of Durham High School and Peace College in Raleigh, NC. She was employed for 42 years at...
Eric Lee Tilley, Jr.
Aug 13, 2007
Eric Lee Tilley, Jr., 80, of Cole Mill Rd. died Monday, August 13, 2007. A Durham native, he was born to the late Eric L. and Lillian Aneews Tilley. Following his graduation from Durham High School and the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He retired as district maneer...
Michael Lance Wieringo
Aug 12, 2007
DURHAM - Michael Lance Wieringo died suddenly Sunday evening, August 12, 2007 in his home in Durham, NC. He was 44 years old. Mike was born in Vicenza, Italy on June 24, 1963. Mike graduated from Rustburg High School in 1981 and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virgina Commonwealth Uneersity with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Illustration. Beginning...
Lucinda Kathleeneeen Frazier
Aug 9, 2007
Lucinda Kathleen Frazier died Thursday morning, August 9, 2007 at Louisburg Nursing Center. She was 79 years old. A native of Franklinton, NC, Mrs. Frazier was born July 13, 1928 to the late Lummie C. and Bessie Ross Bridges. She was a long-time member of Union View Baptist Church. Mrs. Frazier is survived by her brother, Rudy Bridges and wife,...
Robert Stephen Bolejack
Aug 6, 2007
Robert Stephen Steve Bolejack, 67, of Pittsboro, died August 6, 2007. He was born June 6, 1940 in Guilford County, the son of Robert Pierce and Ruby Martha Causey Bolejack. Steve was an avid hunter and golfer; he was a retired manufacturers representative for the tool and dye industry. Steve is survived by his wife, Jackie G. Bolejack of Cary;...
Todd Bailey Johnson
Aug 4, 2007
Todd Bailey Johnson, 41, passed away at Duke Hospital in Durham on Saturday, August 4, 2007 after a brief illness. He was born in Orange County, NC oneeptember 16, 1965 to Robert and Patsy Bailey Johnson. In addition to his parents, Todd is survived by his wife Annette; brother, Robert Shon Johnson and wife Melanie, niece Elizabeth, nephew Nicholas all...
Charles Franklin Stewart
Aug 2, 2007
Charles Franklin Stewart, Jr. died Thursday evening August 2, 2007 in Nags Head, NC. He was 89 years old. Mr. Stewart was born ineebane, NC to the late Charles and Lula Ann Wray Stewart. Prior to his employment at Liggett Myers for nearly 35 years, Mr. Stewart proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII. Mr. Stewart is...
Lorenee. Bennett Parker
Jul 30, 2007
Lorenee. Bennett Parker, 93, died July 30, 2007 in Brookfield, WI. She was borneecember 23, 1913 ineest Durham and was the daughter of the late James W. and Nancy F. Bennett. Oneecember 19, 1931, she married James C.
Alexander Kerr Thomas
Jul 24, 2007
Alexander Kerr Thomas, native and longtime resident of Philadelphia, PA, and since 1997 of Chapel Hill, died Tuesday afternoon, July 24th, 2007 following a sudden and unexpected health crisis after several years of decline. He was 83. Son and only child of Murdock and Isabelle Thomas of Philadelphia, Moore County, NC, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was born in...
Jane Holt Foushee
Jul 24, 2007
Mrs. Jane Holt Foushee, 86, passed into eternal peace on July 24, 2007. She was born in Miller, SD on July 21, 1921 to Albert E. Holt and Clara Morgan Holt. In 1943, while working as an instructor to Army Air Corpsmen in Sioux Falls, SD, she met and later married her partner in life, Elton Foushee, a native of...
Ernest Frederick Licht
Jul 23, 2007
Mr. Ernest Frederick Ernie Licht, 80, of Pittsboro died July 23, 2007 at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford. Ernie was borneecember 14, 1926 in Wayne Co., MI to Ernest Jacob and Violetta Zimmer Licht. He served in the US Navy, and was a retired Sales Engineer for SKF manufacturer of ball bearings. He relocated to Pittsboro 21 years ago and...
Rebecca Beasley King
Jul 20, 2007
Rebecca Beasley King passed away Friday, July 20, 2007 at Croasdaile Pavilion. The daughter of Morris and Leonard Dunlop Beasley, Rebecca was preceded ineeath by her devoted husband of 62 years, Aubrey Burns King, who died in January 2005. She was raised in Durham and attended the Durham City Schools. Rebecca graduated with the Class of 1942 from Durham High...
James Walker Thomas, Jr.
Jul 19, 2007
Mr. James Walker JW Thomas, Jr., 89, of Mt. View Church Road, Moncure, died Thursday, July 19, 2007 at home while working in his garden. Mr. Thomas was born May 2, 1918 in Chatham County, the son of the late J. Walker Thomas, Sr. and Nora Ray Thomas. He was a lifelong farmer, and retired from working as a security...
Carolyn Carroll Distasio
Jul 17, 2007
Mrs. Carolyn Carroll Distasio, wife of Richard Distasio, Sr. died July 17, 2007 ineer home on Evergreen Drive in Pittsboro. She was 63. Carolyn was born in Wise County, VA oneeptember 19, 1943, the daughter of MJ Carroll and Nadine Thompson Carroll. She worked as a prodcut buyer for both Kmart and Strowd's Jewelers for a number of years, and...
Howard Franklin Claypoole
Jul 14, 2007
Howard F. Frank Claypoole passed away Saturday, July 14, 2007 at Duke Uneersity Medical Center in Durham, NC. Born May 19, 1935, he grew up in Toledo, Ohio where he was an all-city basketball player at Toledo Scott High School. He joined the Uneed States Army after high school and served in Korea in the 8178 Army Unit, before his...
Charlotte Corbin
Jul 13, 2007
Charlotte Corbin, 94, died on Friday, July 13, 2007. Charlotte was born in Danville, VA to the late George Wesley Corbin, Sr. and Lucy Lyon Corbin oneecember 3, 1912. Charlotte moved to Durham in 1928 at the age of fifteen and graduated from Durham High the following year in 1929. She theneent on to graduate from Duke Uneersity in 1935...
Adolph Bryant Duke
Jul 6, 2007
Bryant Duke 77, of Cary, died Friday, July 6, 2007 after an extended illness at Western Wake Hospital in Cary. Bryant was born in Oxford, North Carolina oneeptember 19, 1930 to Martha Beatrice aneernest Bryant Duke. He moved to Durham whenee started elementary school and lived there until graduation from Durham High School. Bryant then joined the Navy for the...
Ann Rose Finch
Jul 5, 2007
ANN SOUTHERLAND FINCH OXFORD- Ann Southerland Finch, age 81 a resident of 207 Belle St. died Thursday July 5, 2007. She was a native of Vance Co. And was the daughter of the late William Robert and Laura Southerland Finch. She was a retired bookkeeper for Union National Bank, a homemaker and was a member of the Oxford Uneed Methodist...
James Joseph Bowie
Jul 4, 2007
JAMES JOSEPH BOWIE OXFORD- James Joseph Bowie, age 57 a resident of 3600 Hwy 15 S. died Wednesday July 4, 2007. He was a native of Passaic Co. New Jersey and was the son of the late James T. and Catherine Reihl Bowie. Memorial services will be held Saturday July 7, 2007 at 1:45 PM in the Gentry-neell & Vaughan...
Dovie Medlin Sauls
Jul 2, 2007
Mrs. Dovie Medlin Sauls, of New Elam Church Road, New Hill, died July 2, 2007 at Randolph Hospital in Asheboro. She was 85. Born October 7, 1921 in Chatham County, she was the daughter of Jasper and Donna Hearneedlin. Mrs. Sauls was a graduate of Bells School, and was a member of New Elam Christian Church. A homemaker, she also...
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