Obituaries

Jun 4, 1915

Alice Lee Canada Gearhart Evans, Age 91, died peacefully Saturday evening, December 9, at Forest View Healthcare Center in Durham. She was born June 4, 1915 to the late Leamond and Lolllie Stansbury Canada in Durham, where she lived her entire life. Mrs. Evans was a diligent worker who retired after 34 years of employment at Liggett Myers Tobacco Company....

Aug 30, 1914

Jonas McCoy Austin, age 90, died Friday in Durham Regional Hospital. He was born August 30, 1914 in Alexander County, NC to Oma Elizabeth Hall and Jonas Partee Austin. He attended school ineethlehem Community, then as a young man joined the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp Butner during WW II. Mr. Austineegan his career as an electrician, and later became...

May 5, 1914

Henry Battle Abernethy died peacefully on Oct. 10 after a very brief illness. He was 95 years old, born May 5, 1914 in East Durham and lived his entire life in the Durham area. He was the last surviving member of a family of eight brothers and sisters. Mr. Abernethy served in the Army during WWII, and was retired for...

Aug 20, 1913

William James Berry, Jr., age 92, died Thursday evening at Croasdaile Village where he resided. He was born in Durham to the late William James Berry, Sr. and Lilah Stone Berry on August 20, 1913. A genee and kind man who adored his family and his work, Mr. Berry enjoyed many accomplishments throughout his life. He attended prep school at...

Apr 27, 1913

OXFORD: Lizzie Currin, passed away Thursday, April 11 at the age of 99. Miss Currin, a twin, was born on April 27, 1913. She was one of 10 children born to Mary Pitts Currin and William A. Currin. Miss Currin was a lifetime resident of Oxford, a graduate of Oxford High School, and lifelong member of Corinth Baptist Church. In...

Jan 30, 1913

Ermadene Wilson Martin, 96, of Durham, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ August 28 at Carolina House in Cary. Born January 30, 1913, she grew up ineebb City, Missouri, the daughter of Samuel Leon and Clara Reed Wilson. She was preceded ineeath by her husband Raymond Leith Martin, sisters Veda Wilson McCullough and Loretta Wilson,...

Oct 22, 1912

Durham ??? Mrs. Goldie Lewis Lougee Peeler, 104, died Sunday afternoon at Brookdale of Chapel Hill. Mrs. Peeler was born in Nash County on October 22, 1912.?? She relocated to Durham as a teeneer, where she was educated in the Durham public schools.?? She was a beautician, having her owneeauty shop ineer home for many years. Mrs. Peeler enjoyed gardening...

Aug 7, 1912

Virgie S. Pleasant, 95, died Friday, August 17 at her home on Woodland Dr., Durham.She was born to John Bailey and Jerusha Stinson on August 7, 1912 in Goldston, NC. She was predeceased by her husband, Major Y. Pleasant. Mrs. Pleasant was employed with Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company for 37 years, retiring in 1970. She will be remembered by...

Jul 15, 1912

Adele Medure, 95, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend, died on Thursday, September 20 at the Forest at Duke Health Care Center. Adele, born in Brooklyn, NY on July 15, 1912, was the daughter of Camillo aneelisa Fosco. She lived most of her life in the Bronx, NY moving to Maryland in 1996 and then to Durham in...

Jul 4, 1912

Emil L. "Dunk" Preddy of Franklinton died Wednesday night at Brantwood Nursing Center in Oxford. He was 98 years old. Dunk was born in Granville County to the late Joseph and Carrie Blackley Preddy on July 4, 1912. A long-time member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Franklinton, Dunk spent most of his life farming his land. Whenee wasn't farming,...

Jan 1, 1912

Mary Elizabeth Lunsford Whitfield, 95, former resident of Durham, went to be with God, Saturday night, in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Whitfield was born in Durham on January 1, 1912 and was the daughter of the late Dennis Tilley Lunsford aneeva Mae Jones Lunsford. She was a graduate of Durham High School and attended East Carolina Uneersity. Mrs. Whitfield was with...

Aug 20, 1911

Mary Ella Sloan, 94, resident of Spring Arbor of Durham, died Tuesday morning in Durham Regional Hospital. Mrs. Sloan was born in Columbus, Georgia on August 20, 1911. She was the daughter of the late Lehmaneee Cain and Mary Florence Gilbert. She was predeceased by her husband, Paul R. Sloan. Surviving are three sons; John Sloan of Chattahoochee, Fl, Richard...

May 5, 1911

Minee Hall Wilson Mangum, 93, died Saturday, April 16, at Croasdaile Village, where she lived for the past 11 years. Minee was born in Alamance County to the late James C. and Harriett Walton Dickens Hall on May 5, 1911. Minee moved to Durham in 1930 and worked at American Tobacco Co. for 35 years until her retirement in 1977....

May 6, 1910

Lee Robert Smudz, age 97, died Sunday, June 17, at Carolina House of Durham. Born in Cleveland, OH to the late Michael and Josephine Pater Smudz on May 6, 1910, he moved to Durham more thaneeveneears ago. Surviving are his four childreneelaine Munley and husband, Bill, of Durham; Thomas Lee Smudz, Timothy Lee Smudz and Terry Robert Smudz, all of...

Durham ??? Mrs. Marcella Theresa Bohl Swanson, 88, died Tuesday morning at Duke Regional Hospital. Mrs. Swanson was born oneeptember 23, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY to the late John M. and Mary Grace Bohl.?? She was educated in the New York public schools, and later graduated from Croft Business College.?? She married her late husband, Kenneth Swanson and relocated several...

David Ainsworth Onees, 79, a long time professor of Medicine at UNC, lost his battle with cancer on May 7, 2017. He was an excellent student, graduating with Highest Distinction from the Uneersity of Kansas as a part of their Honors program; attending Oxford Uneersity as a Rhodes Scholar and graduating in the First Class, Final Honors School of Physiology,...

Raleigh ??? Mrs. Betty Imogene Williams Hunter, 89, died Sunday April 9 at Transitions Hospice in Raleigh after a brief illness. Betty was borneeptember 1, 1927 in Coats, North Carolina to the late Almon and Betty Turner Williams. She was preceded ineeath by her seven siblings. Mrs. Hunter was a 1975 graduate of Douglas College, Rutgers Uneersity. She is survived...

Butner, N.C. - Eddie L. Smith, age 81, died August 25 in nursing facility in Lawrenceville, Ga.He was a native of Telfair Co. Ga. and was the son of the late Rev. A. O. and Anee Mae Oneal Smith. Mr. Smith, a minister, educator and author retired from the Federal Prison System, Department of Education in Butner. He was a...

Chapel Hill, NC ??? John Ronald Sendek died at the Livewell Residence in Chapel Hill, NC oneecember 4, 2016. Born in Wineer, PA in 1930, he was the loving husband of Rose Mary (Stein) Sendek, to whom he was married for 58 years. Rose passed less than a month ago, and so John clearly went home to be with her...

Durham ??? Mrs. Rosabell Dorsey Absalom, 91, wife of Worthy Carver Absalom, Jr., died??Tuesday??evening at Roxboro Health Center in Roxboro, NC.?? Born neember 17, 1925 in Swiss, WV to James Edwin aneemma Schwartz Dorsey, Mrs. Absalom earned her Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia Tech in 1947, and completed her formal education at Watts Practical School of Nursing in...