Obituaries

Our dear sweet mother, Doris Thomasson Brown, age 91, of Durham NC, passed away Thursday evening, the 6th of February, while holding her hand. She blessed us so very much throughout our lives. We are so very grateful that she is now in the hands of our Lord. She was an angel who blessed so many people with her genee...

DURHAM ??? Louis Carl Fras, age 83, died oneebruary 5, 2020. He was born on neember 4, 1936 to Lewis Fras and Sophia Wojtylko Fras in River Rouge, Michigan. Louis attended the Uneersity of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he earned a degree in pharmacy. He joined the Navy and was a member of Public Health Service from 1964-1970. He...

CHAPEL HILL ??? Diane??Zaccardi (nee Heizenroth),??70,??of Chapel Hill passed away on Sunday,??July 8,??2018 at UNC??Hospital. Diane was a most loving wife, mother, sister, friend, aunt, and grandmother. She was a generous host and neighbor, and aneenthusiastic baker. Diane was an expert bridal pattern maker ineer beloved New York City. Above all, she knew how to make people feel special and...

Ruth Joan Smith Ewing (known as Joan, pronounced JoAnn) was a complex, intelligent, loyal and faithful person. An obituary will not capture the fullness of her life and the life she gave to others. Joan died peacefully at Carol Woods from complications of Parkinson???s Disease. A native of Emporia, Kansas, Joan grew up in a moderately Republican family where she...

Doris Woods Gervais Our much beloved Mom, Grammie, and Great Grammie left us on July 24, 2016 to joineer late husband of 68 years, Frederick B. (Ted) Gervais. He is tipping his hat, extending his hand, aneescorting her into the loving arms of our heavenly Father. Her grandson, Jordan, is excited to show her "just everything.??? They have been patiently...

Lucinda McMichael Paris, much loved wife, mother and friend, died at Duke Hospital on August 4. She is survived by her husband John Staddon, her sister Charlotte Pelon of Durham, and two children: Charlie Paris who lives near Boulder, CO, and Anne Paris, who lives with her husband Barclay Collins and two daughters in Arlington VA. Cindy was born on...

Oxford, NC Richard Lee Goldthwaite, 70, died at his residence with family oneeptember 1, 2018. Born in Biddeford, Maine to the late Edward Wilbur Goldthwaite and Annette Regina Jette on a cold February day. Richard retired to Oxford to be closer to family. He worked ineesearch Trianee for several years and grew to love the area. Richard was an avid...

Fred Smith passed away at Croasdaile Village in Durham NC oneeptember 1, 2018, surrounded by his loving family. He was preceded ineeath by his parents, Fred George Smith and Agnes Melville Smith, his wife, Lurene (Laurie) Roman Smith, to whom he was married for 56 years, and his son Richard Smith. He is survived by his children Randall Smith and...

Margaret Lucille Tippett Dixon, 91, of Oxford died July 3rd of 2018.?? She was born in Granville County on Jan. 1st, 1927, daughter of the late Farris Bragg Tippett and the late Joe Peace Tippett. Lucille is survived by her sons,??Harry Dixon and his wife Sharon of Raleigh and Frank Dixon Jr. and wife Marietta of Asheville as well as...

Robert Patrick Donovan (Bob) passed away on neember 5, 2019 at Grand Oaks Assisted Living ineenseneeach, FL. He was 89 years old. Bob was born oneeptember 3, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Richard Patrick aneedith Harley Donovan. Robert grew up in Norristown, PA. He attended Girard College in Philadelphia, PA from first grade through high school, graduating in 1947. He...

Nicholas Parris passed away on Monday, neember 11, 2019 after a long battle with dementia. He was 81 years old. Nick spent most of his life in the Philadelphia area. He was the son of Greek immigrants from Asia Minor and served in the U.S. Army in Korea in the late 1950s. While working full-time, he put himself through college...

Oxford, NC Joan Marie Booth Courtois, age 87, died oneebruary 9, 2020. She was born to the late Alonzo Charles Booth, Sr. and Daisy Ruth Dickinson Booth in Smethport, Pennsylvania on neember 26, 1932. Joaneegan a lifetime career serving her country in the Uneed States Army (Women???s Army Corps). After an Honorable Discharge, she transitioned into Civil Service, through the...

Juliette Davis Johnson, a long time Durham resident, died peacefully surrounded by her loving family, oneecember 14, 2019 at age 94.?? Judy was born to Clifton Farriar Davis aneestelle McLendon Davis in Burgaw, North Carolina, and was reared by her loving aunt, Callie Davis Bordeaux. Judy lived a very active and fulfilling life, playing in various bridge groups, tending her...

Allison Rose O???Toole, age 28, died suddenly in a car accident oneecember 15, 2019. She was born on March 15, 1991 in Durham, NC. Allison was an outstanding student and a voracious reader. She graduated from Durham School of the Arts in 2009 with an art focus in photography. She received her Bachelor???s Degree in Psychology from The Uneersity of...

DURHAM ??? Juliette Johnson Trask, a Durham native, died oneecember 12 surrounded by her family. Julie was a loving wife, sister and mother, and a proud and active grandmother. Julie is survived by her husband, Tallman Trask III; mother, Juliette Davis Johnson; siblings, Marcia Johnsoneelford and William Hutchins Johnson, Jr.; daughter, Kellie McDonald; stepchildren, Merrill Trask-Price and Tallman Trask, IV;...

Oxford Cheryl Brown Hawkins, age 74, died peacefully surrounded by family oneecember 8, 2019. She was the daughter of the late Wesley Thomas Brown, Jr. aneeva Hobgood Brown.?? She was born in Granville County on April 29,1945 and resided in Granville County for many prosperous years with her loving husband, Phillip. Cheryl had an eneepreneurial spirit, which led to owning...

Robert Holden Wilkinson, Jr. MD., age 87, died at Duke Hospital on neember 28, 2019. He was born on October 11, 1932, to the late Robert Holden and Gladys Duvall Wilkinson He graduated from High School in Northern Virginia. He then attended the College of William and Mary and received a B.S. in Biology in 1954. He earned his medical...

Marion Laird, 90, of Chapel Hill died on neember 12, 2019.?? She was born in Atlanta, GA to Savelle and Margaret Price Bonavita and grew up in Columbia SC.?? She graduated from Coker College in Hartsville, SC where she cultivated her beautiful singing voice, studied languages and was known fondly as ???Googie???.?? She sang in public venues and on radio...

Oxford, NC Lucius Leon Barker, Jr, age 85, died on neember 29, 2019. ??He was born to the late Lucius Leon Barker and Marie Tillotson Barker on April 28, 1934 in Vance County. Lucius was a strong man who was a tobacco farmer, a devoted man and a good father. His wife of 61 years, Nancy and he raised three...

Maria (Mary) Burak Szadek, 93, went home to be with her Heavenly Father on neember 21, 2019. She was born in Buraczki, Poland oneecember 10, 1925. After WWII ineecember 1951, Mary and her late husband, Joseph John Szadek, came to the Uneed States. On June 6, 1958, she became a citizen of the Uneed States of America in the US...