Obituaries

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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...

DURHAM Joyce Mauldin Fife, age 76, left this earth to joineer Savior ineeaven on Monday evening, March 15, 2010 at Duke Uneersity Hospital. Born in Atlanta, GA oneebruary 7, 1934, she was the daughter of the late Aubrie H. Mauldin and Bessie Gresham Mauldin. Joyce was a member of Grey Stone Baptist Church. Joyce and her beloved husband Bob celebrated...

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...

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Marion "Mae" Turner Bowen, 85, died Thursday at Durham Regional Hospital. Born in Durham, she was the daughter of the late Robert O. Turner and Carrie Byrd Turner. She was a member at Carr Uneed Methodist Church and the Nell Morris Sunday school class. Through the church, Mae and her husband, the late William W. Bowen, Jr., voluneered with Urban...

Oxford Jerry Wayne Dunn, 62, of Oxford died on Saturday July 23 at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill after a long battle with cancer. Jerry is the son of the late Johnnie William and Mary Elizabeth "Pete(Burnette) Dunn. He is survived by two children; his son, William Farrington Dunn and wife Lindsay of Wilson, NC and his daughter, Kelsey Dunn...

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Earl Warreneessee, 84, of 2113 Lodestar Drive, Raleigh, died Monday morning at his home. Mr. Hessee was born in Durham to the son of the late Eugene aneevelyn Chadwick Hessee. A 1939 graduate of Durham High School, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corp and served his country during WW II. After the war he graduated from N.C. State Uneersity...

Ruby Elizabeth Walker Smith, 99, died Thursday in Duke Hospital. A Durham native, she was the daughter of William Thomas and Mary Holt Rhew Walker. She was raised in the Bahama area, and attended schools in Orange and Durham counees, graduating from Mangum High School. Mrs. Smith worked for many years as a seamstress making window treatments for Belks Dept....

DURHAM: Dollye W. Nordgren, 78, died at home Tuesday. A native of Greenville, Miss., she attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Mrs. Nordgren lived most of her adult life in the Chicago area, where she raised her four children, and owned and operated her own travel agency. She had been a Durham resident for the last 15 years. Mrs....

Freda K. Gowan died Friday in Durham Regional Hospital oneer 78th birthday. A native of Southamptoneengland, she came to the US as a newlywed following WW II. Freda was a fixture at the former Ivy Room Restaurant on Durham

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Bahama, NCMrs. Shirley Barbee Sanford, resident of 8803 Quail Roost Road, Bahama, died Thursday night. She was the daughter of the late W. Claude and Lucy Vickers Barbee and grew up in the Lowes Grove Community. Mrs. Sanford retired in 1984 from GTE, having worked in the Accounting and Business Relations Departments. Active ineer community, she was a member of...

Oneeptember 10, 2007 Polly N. Kearney died peacefully at age 87. Polly was a nurse in the Baltimore area for over 43 years. She spent her retirement traveling, reading and taking care of her growing family. Her last five active years were in Rose Manor Assisted Living in Ellicott City. She is survived by her loving son Thomas Tony W...

Carlton Shuler Loftis, age 85, died Sunday evening at Duke Hospital following an extended illness. Surviving is his wife, Dorothy B. Loftis, a son, Christopher B. Loftis of Durham, a daughter, Lesley Weaver and husband, Bill of Durham; two grandchildren, William Loftis Weaver aneelizabeth Weaver Dehmer and husband Jeff; two brothers, Alvitt Loftis of Durham and Garland Loftis of Atlanta,...

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Pat Rowe was a recogneed international practitioner ineeadership selection and performance.?? An Australian native, his particular expertise had been acknowledged by The Financial Times and other news media and journals. With extensive international experience working in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and South America, he brought to his clients the working knowledge of line leadership, coupled with a strong practitioner background...

Sarah Lackey Ferrell, age 91, former resident of 107 W. Lynch Street, died Thursday evening at Duke Medical Center. Mrs. Ferrell was born in Alexander County, NC ands was the daughter of the late George W. and Flossie Head Lackey. She worked as a nurse at Duke Hospital, at Durham Veterans Hospital for 32 years and with Durham Regional Hospital...

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...