Obituaries
Betty Green Woodlief
Jan 20, 2016
Betty Green Woodlief, age 83, died Wednesday, January 20, 2016. She was born on June 8, 1932 to the late Augustus and Minee Green. Survivors include two sons, Ronald Woodlief, Norman Woodlief and wife, Joan; two daughters, Brenda Sheetz and husband, Robert, and Judy Warren; nee grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren. The Woodlief family will receive friends at the Tabernacle of Life...
Lillian Julian
Jan 18, 2016
Lillian Julian, age 88, died peacefully at Hillcrest Convalescent Center in Durham, NC on Monday, January 18, 2016. Lillian was born in Youngstown, OH on April 2, 1927 to the late George and Veronica Stanislaw Turek. She was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church in northern Durham. In October 2014, Lillian was honeed by the Catholic Daughters of the...
Virginia Frazier Tingen
Jan 17, 2016
Oxford: Virginia Frazier Tingen (90) went to be with the Lord on Sunday, January17, 2016 at Brantwood Nursing Home surrounded by her family. Virginia was a native of Granville County, born to Conley Thomas aneessie Blackwell Frazier. She was the wife of the late Herman T. Tingen, Sr. Surviving are her daughters Sylvia T. Phillips of South Boston, VA, Priscilla...
William G. Anlyan, M.D.
Jan 17, 2016
William G. Anlyan, M.D., chancellor and professor of Duke Uneersity and trustee of the Duke Endowment, died at the age of 90 on January 17, 2016. Dr. Anlyan was one of Duke???s most visionary leaders over his four decades and was instrumental in achieving many of the uneersity and its health enterprise???s most important milestones. During Anlyan???s tenee as medical...
Hope Campbell Sigora
Jan 14, 2016
Oxford: Hope Campbell Sigora, 48, of Oxford died Thursday, January 14, 2016. She was a native of Granville County, the daughter of Barbara C. Campbell and the late Donald A. Campbell. Hope was a graduate of J. F. Webb High School, Class of 1985; a graduate of Campbell Uneersity, Class of 1989; and a graduate of North Carolina Central Uneersity...
Priscilla "P" Brooks
Jan 13, 2016
Oxford: Priscilla Brooks, born neember 3, 1940, died January 13, 2016. She was 75 years old. She is survived by her daughter Lisa Jones of Oxford: three sisters Vera Ellington, Barbara Poole, aneella Schmit, all of Oxford: many nieces, great nieces, nephews, and great nephews. Priscilla was preceded ineeath by her parents Coon Pierce and Bazel Pierce. Most family members...
Del-Rae "Toby" Culbreth
Jan 13, 2016
Oxford: Del-Rae ???Toby??? Culbreth, 82, died Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Duke Medical Center. She was a native of West Virginia, the daughter of the late James H. and Tessie Walls Stone, the widow of Harold ???Pete??? Culbreth, and a retired nurse. The family will receive friends at Gentry ??? neell & Vaughan Funeral Home from 1:00PM to 2:00PM on...
Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Jr.
Jan 8, 2016
DURHAM- Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Jr. passed away peacefully on January 8, 2016 at his home, at the age of 92. Clarence was born in Kinston, NC oneebruary 5, 1923.?? He was the only child born to the late Clarence Lemuel Wetherington, Sr. and Ruth Maybelle Bryd Wetherington. Clarence moved to Durham at the age of four.?? He attended Durham High...
Alice Mansfield Rankin
Jan 7, 2016
DURHAM-Alice Mansfield Rankin, age 89, passed away peacefully Thursday, January 7, 2016 at Croasdaile Retirement Village with her children by her side. A native of Durham, Alice was the daughter of the late W. Fuller and Margaret Steele Mansfield. Alice was a longtime member of Epworth Uneed Methodist Church where she sang in the choir, initiated the Care Group for...
Marie Lowery Dalton
Jan 7, 2016
Oxford: Marie Lowery Dalton, 72, of Oxford died Thursday January 7, 2016. She was a native of Virgilina, VA. She is the daughter of the late Jesse and Hallie Whitt Lowery and the widow of Phil Dalton. Marie was a retired cosmetologist and master gardener. She loved the outdoors and sharing her yard and garden with others. She was a...
Joan Englund
Jan 6, 2016
Joan Englund was born May 28, 1920 to Dr. Jesse H. and Mrs. Leone Webb Epperson in Durham NC. She died January 6, 2016 at the Olseneenter at The Forest at Duke. Joan was educated in Durham Public Schools aneearned a Bachelor???s Degree in English from Duke Uneersity, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. In 1945...
Olive Faucette Jenkins
Jan 4, 2016
-MEBANE- Olive Faucette Jenkins, age 69, of Efland, NC, passed away peacefully on January 4, 2016 at the Presbyterian Home of Hawfields ineebane, NC. She was born in Durham, NC in 1946 to the late Jay Edwin and Olive Faucette Jenkins. Olive grew up in Durham, graduating from Durham High School in 1964 and from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC...
Mackenee Anastasia Ruston
Jan 4, 2016
Mackenee Anastasia Ruston ???Kenee???, age 17, beloved daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, teammate and friend, passed away suddenly on January 4, 2016 near Alpine, WY. Born in Chapel Hill, NC on January 5, 1998, Kenee was a senior at East Chapel Hill High School. She most recently fulfilled her dream of earning her private pilot???s license. On the cusp of...
Frank K. Borden, Sr.
Jan 4, 2016
Mr. Frank Kennon Borden, Sr. died peacefully at his home in Hope Valley, Durham on Monday, January 4, 2016. Born on April 12, 1927 in Wilson, NC, he was the oldest son of the late Margaret Gold Borden and Frank Kennon Borden. After graduating from Goldsboro High School in 1944, he served in the Navy at the end of World...
Mabel Clair Woodlief Cash
Jan 3, 2016
Mabel Clair Woodlief Cash, 91, of Asheville, passed away on January 3, 2016. A native of Franklin County, NC, she moved to Oxford, NC as a young child, and lived there until relocating to Asheville in 2001. She was the daughter of the late Roy Harris and Lillie Belle Wrenn Woodlief, and was preceded ineeath by her husband of 50...
Janet Sorrell Vaughan
Jan 3, 2016
DURHAM-Janet Sorrell Vaughan, age 77, of Durham passed away Sunday, January 3, 2016 at Duke Regional Hospital. A native of Durham she was the daughter of the late Worth and Lillian Williams Sorrell. Janet had worked for a period of time for Liggett Myers and for the Durham County Public School System, but spent most of her life as a...
Eldridge Douglas ???Brue??? Dickerson
Dec 29, 2015
Eldridge Douglas ???Brue??? Dickerson, 94, of Oxford passed away Tuesday December 29, 2015. Mr. Dickerson was given the nee Brue by his older brother whenee was just a young boy. He was born May 10, 1921 in the Dickerson Community where he farmed on the family farm his entire life in addition to several years of employment at the Murdock...
Daniel W. "Danny" Grigg
Dec 29, 2015
Oxford: Daniel ???Danny??? W. Grigg, 73, of Oxford died Tuesday December 29, 2015. He was a native of Illinois, son of the late Forest Leland and Glenneelam Grigg. He was a faithful member of West Oxford Baptist Church, a devout Christian, and a descendant from a long line of Baptist ministers. He always strove to love others the way that...
Theresa Drozd Stanion
Dec 21, 2015
BURLINGTON- Theresa Drozd Stanion, 77, passed away Monday, December 21, 2015 at Alamance Regional Medical Center. Theresa was born ineersey City, NJ and raised in Bayonne, NJ, graduating from Bayonne High School in 1956. She earned her BA in English from Notre Dame College of Staten Island in 1960 and her MA from SUNY New Paltz in 1971. Theresa had...
William Philip Dalton
Dec 20, 2015
William Philip Dalton, 77, of Oxford, NC died peacefully December 20, 2015 at Duke Uneersity Medical Center after a sudden onset illness. A native of Rocky Mount, NC, Phil is survived by his wife of 15 years Marie Lowry Dalton, his daughters Julie (Todd) Dalton Loos of St. Louis and Jane (Wesley) Dalton Currin of Raleigh. Grandchildren, Will and Dalton...
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