Obituaries

On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, Barbara Ann Marciniak Naples, 62, died at UNC Hospitals. Born in Buffalo, NY, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Raymond and Rosalie Gino Marciniak. Barbara was an avid UNC Football fan who spent many Saturdays cheering for the Tarheels with family and friends. She was a member of Hope Community Church and was...

Eleanor Louise Cheneeth, age 82, resident of 1114 Donphil Road, entered into eternal rest Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Born in Elkins, WV, Eleanor was the daughter of the late Blair Silas McQuain and Gladys Brock McQuain. She was a graduate of Davis Elkins College. Eleanor and her family moved to Durham in 1967. She retired from CCB after many years...

God needed many beautiful flowers in his garden, so he picked the most beautiful of all on January 24, 2010 when Augusta Wilson "Gus" High, 95, passed away. Gus was born in Durham, NC daughter of the late George W. and Nancy Mangum Wilson and the widow of the late J.H. "Jimbo" High, Sr. She retired from Burlington Mills and...

Steven Forris Kimbrough died Tuesday, January 5 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born neember 7, 1958 in Birmingham, Alabama. He began school in Princeton, NJ, but moved with his family to Germany whenee was twelve years old. Steven attended both German and American schools in Bonn aneexcelled in his studies and athletics. After completion of high...

Herman L. Connell of Clayton, age 82, died peacefully at home on January 10 with his loving family by his side. He was predeceased by his parents, Eugene and Lois Connell of Granville County and four brothers, Nick, Nelson, Clarence and Crawford Connell, and two sisters, Helen Haskins and Lena Connell. Surviving are his wife, Blanee Connell , his son,...

OXFORD: Martha Crowell Hight passed surrounded by her loving family on the 15th of March, 2010. Mrs. Hight was the daughter of the late William Watson Crowell and the late Lillian Spencer Crowell. She was born in Statesville, NC on the 25th of July 1926, but moved at a very young age to Oxford, NC, which was ineer words "Next...

Mr. Wallace Lee Rowland, 82, died at his home on River Forest Road in Pittsboro oneebruary 11, 2010. A native of Cambridge, Ohio, Mr. Rowland was born April 21, 1927, the son of Ivor Charles Rowland and Lura Lavaria Yountz Rowland. Mr. Rowland attended both Duquesne Uneersity and Duke Uneersity. He was a Seaman First Class in the US Navy...

Helen Sunas Dennos, 88, died Saturday in Duke Hospital following a brief illness. She was born in Bronx, NY and moved to Durham as a young girl of 8. Helen was the daughter of the late Gus and Zoe Leon Sunas. A graduate of Durham High School, she returned briefly to New York City to work in the Theatre Industry....

Miss Evie Kathryn Judge, 7 year old daughter of Adam aneemily Thomas Judge, of Pittsboro, went from being an earthly angel to a heavenly angel on Sunday night, February 28, 2010 after waging a courageous fight against brain tumors. Evie was born in UNC Hospitals on January 19, 2003 and had bravely and fearlessly fought cancer since her first brain...

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Rev. Crate Harrison Jones, Jr., 87, entered into Heaveneednesday morning at Duke Medical Center. He was born in Louisville, KY and was the son of the late Crate Harrison Jones, Sr. and Ina V. Crenshaw Jones. He was a graduate of Mars Hill College, Wake Forest Uneersity class of 1946 with a BA Degree and the Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville,...

Betty Arnold Hodges, 83, a veteraneewswoman who worked for Herald-Sun Papers in Durham for 43 years, died on Easter Monday, April 5, at the Hock Pavilion. She was born in Waynesboro, VA, and was preceded ineeath by a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and by her husband Louis Edward Hodges Jr., who died last December. The Hodges were married for 55 years....

Thelma Doby Wiggins, age 93, former resident of Forest Rd and Croasdaile Apartments, completed her earthly journey on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at the Hock Family Pavilion and passed into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, surrounded by her family. Mrs. Wiggins was born in Cheraw, SC to the late Joseph Wood Doby and Pattie Thompson...

Gary Shelden Wilson, 69, died at home Monday after an extended illness. He was borneebruary 17, 1940 in Spokane, WA, the first child of the late Helen and Kenneth Wilson. Gary finished high school ineeattle and graduated from Washington State Uneersity in 1962. He spent two years as a Lieutenant in the US Army, serving in Korea. Gary received the...

OXFORD: Marvell Hilton, age 86, died Tuesday, neember 03, 2009. Hilton was a native of Granville County, NC. She was born May 31, 1923, to the late Claudia Kinton Currin and John David Currin of Northern Granville County. She is survived by a beloved daughter, Martha Hilton-Willett and cherished granddaughter Claudia McCullough Willett. Hilton was preceded ineeath by her devotional...

Oxford: Robert H. B. neent, age 89 a resident of Oxford died neember 1, 2009. He was a native of Ruston, La. And was the son of the late Matthew Colombus and Mary Belle Hinton neent. He was a 1938 graduate of Ruston High School, attended La Tech, a veteran of the Navy serving in WWII, a member of the...

Mr. James Steven

Robert L. Oakley, 90, of 2311 Oriole Drive, Durham, NC died on Tuesday, December 29that the Brianeenter Health and Rehabilitationeenter. He was born 3/15/19 in Alamance County, NC, son of the late Joseph D. aneethel Kimbro Oakley. He moved to Durham in 1951 and for many years was a route salesman for Jewel Tea Company. He enjoyed his relationship with...

Hughes Ernest Wilkinson III, of Washington D.C. left this life in his sleep on July 5, 2009. He was born on May 26, 1941 to Hughes Ernest Wilkinson Jr. and Anee June Faust Wilkinson in Durham and preceded ineeath by them. Hughes graduated from Northern High School in 1959 and Watts Hospital School of Radiology. He received his Radiologic Technologist...

DURHAM: Sharon Hammond McAlister, 49, died peacefully Thursday, May 28th in the Hock Family Pavilion-Duke Hospice following a struggle with breast cancer. She was borneebruary 9, 1960 in Durham. After graduation from Jordan High School, Sharoneent to Queens College in Charlotte, from where she graduated with a B.A. degree in English. She went on to pursue a career in marketing...