Obituaries

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Clara J. Crabtree, 79, resident of Croasdaile Village, Apt. A165, died Monday morning at Durham Regional Hospital. Born in Durham, she was the daughter of the late Clarence L. and Lillian Smith Jenkins. She was a graduate of Oak Grove High School, received her B. S. Degree from East Carolina Uneersity and a Master's Degree from the Uneersity of North...

Billy Arnold Martin, 75, died Tuesday in Durham Regional Hospital following an extended illness. A Durham native, he was the son of the late Vernon aneelizabeth Currin Martin. Billy spent his career with the Crowneellerbach Co. where he was a supervisor. He retired in 1981, after which he moved to Carolina Beach. Billy made the most of his retirement, becoming...

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Miss Frances Jenks Wagner, 79, of Thompson Street, Pittsboro, died neember 13, 2007 at her home. Frances was born June 21, 1928 in Chatham County, a daughter of Wilson Wagner aneethel Jenks Wagner. She was a retired switchboard operator from Chatham Mills, and was a member of Pittsboro Baptist Church. Frances is survived by a sister, Dorothy Farrell, of Pittsboro;...

Marjorie Deaneebb, 83, died Saturday in Duke Hospital following a period of declining health. A native of Wake County, she was the daughter of the late Walter E. and Maggie Scarboro Dean. A graduate of Peace College, Mrs. Webb spent over 30 years working in the business office of the V.A. Medical Center. She was a devoted member of Epworth...

Nina Woods Garriss, 85, of the Methodist Retirement Community, died Monday in Duke Hospital following an extended illness. Mrs. Garriss, a native of Orange County, was the daughter of the late Samuel Woods and Lonie Tilley Woods. She graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1938 and attended Crofts Secretarial and Accounting School. She was retired from the American Tobacco Co....

Rodney E. Godwin, 59, died Sunday. A Durham native, he was the son of the late Abner and Gladys Godwin. Rodney was a 1966 graduate of Durham High School. As an eneepreneur, Rodney started several businesses, eventually leaving Durham and residing and working in the Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC metropolitan area, where, in 1982, he founded American Exteriors, Inc....

Durham, North Carolina Alexander C. Ney, 29 years old, born in Washington, DC. Alex passed away unexpectedly oneednesday, the 16th of April at his home in Durham. Alex was a PhD candidate at Duke Uneersity working on neel breast cancer research. Prior to beginning his research at the McDonnell Lab at Duke, Alex was a decorated officer of the 82d...

Oneebruary 19, 2008, so it was that the Comforter came to take my beloved wife to that eternal silence as she breathed her last earthly breath on Tuesday afternoon, February 19, 2008 at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham, NC. Haleema Rebecca Dunegan Morris, the daughter of the late Jonah and Cora Dunegan, was born on March 13, 1945 in Durham,...

Frances Pickett Worthington, age 91, resident of 1820 Dimmocks Mill Road, Hillsborough, died Sunday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Worthington was the daughter of the late Hubert W. Pickett, Sr. and Buna Leigh Pickett. She was born in Durham and was a homemaker. Mrs. Worthington will be remembered as a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was a charter member...

Mr. Francis K. Frank Wismer, 93, died peacefully at the home of his daughter Betty Phillips in Pittsboro, NC oneeptember 26. Born in Norristown, PA, Frank received a degree in structural engineering in 1936 from Penn State Uneersity, where he played on the varsity football team for three years, and received academic honors in The Tau Beta Pi honorary fraternity....

Hattie Lou Knight, age 80, died Tuesday at Carver Living Center. Hattie was the daughter of the late John N. Lasater, Sr. and Hattie Lou Howard Lasater. She was a native of Durham and a member of Temple Baptist Church. Surviving are her sons, John Knight and wife Teresa and Thomas Knight, all of Durham; her sister, Shirley Seawell, of...

Beverly Corlett Allen, 92, died Thursday, neember 29, 2007 in Bahama, NC. She was born oneebruary 22, 1915 in Battle Creek, Michigan, the daughter of the late Meryl and Aimee Browning Corlett. A resident of Gull Lake, she was known as a homemaker and gourmet cook who had a love for life and passion for animals. She spent the last...

Carletta Stancil Sawyer died Friday evening, August 3, at Brookshire Nursing Center in Hillsborough. She would have celebrated her 91st birthday on August 9. Carletta was born ineenly, NC to the late John A. and Pinetta Edwards Stancil. A long-time member of Calvary Uneed Methodist Church and the Anee Bowen Sunday School Class, Carletta was employed for many years as...

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Thomas Cooke Mandeville, 56, died neember 25, 2007. Tom was born neember 21, 1951 in Stamford, Connecticut. He was the firstborn child of Mary Knowlton Cooke Mandeville and Michael Lloyd Mandeville. His father's business interests took the family abroad for a time to Madrid, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland when Tom was a child. Eventually the family moved back to Stamford...

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