OBITUARIES
Albert Fisher
Feb 3, 2017
It is with great joy and profound sadness that we celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Albert Fleet Fisher who died peacefully on February 3, 2017, in the company of loved ones. Born to the late Albert Ashton Fisher and Bessie Lee Smith Fisher on January 3, 1929, in Garland, North Carolina, he was raised in Fairmont,...
Margaret Hatcher
Feb 2, 2017
Margaret Crowe Hatcher, 82, died Feb. 2, 2017, in Pittsboro, North Carolina, after a brief illness. She was born in Talladega, Alabama, on Feb. 16, 1934, to the Rev. William Crowe and Catherine Graeber Crowe. She grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Duke University. She was married to Thurston R....
Dixie Plummer
Jan 31, 2017
Our beautiful loving mother, Dixie Mae Brockwell Plummer, passed from this physical world into the ethereal heavens on January 31, 2017. Born in Carrboro in 1934, Dixie was the youngest of seven children born in the depression era to Aldophus and Willie Brockwell. She married the love of her life, Paul Morris Plummer, Sr. on Christmas Eve in 1948...
George Weiser
Jan 27, 2017
George Thomas (Bud) Weiser, 85, passed away peacefully in his sleep in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on January 27, 2017. He was born September 17, 1931 in St. Paul, Minnesota, but lived in the Washington, DC area for most of his life. Mr. Weiser is survived by his wife of 62 years, Joyce Ann Weiser; his son, William Edward...
Betty Mccall Russell
Jan 26, 2017
Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough is serving the Russell family.
Mary Lowder Love
Jan 25, 2017
Mary Evelyn "Mel" Lowder Love, 91, passed away on Wednesday January 25th, 2017 of natural causes in Chapel Hill. She was born in Norwood, NC, June 12, 1925, the daughter of Emma Henshaw and Maude Lowder. Mel attended Phifer College, receiving her degree in home economics in 1946. She is preceded in death by her husband, Harold R. Love...
Lloyd Rippe
Jan 22, 2017
Chapel Hill - Lloyd Hans Rippe, Sr., 80, of Chapel Hill passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017 at UNC Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Rippe was born in Brooklyn, NY to the late Kurt and Agnes Rippe but grew up in Germany. He returned to the US after the war in 1951. He proudly served in the US...
Maggie Magee
Jan 20, 2017
No obit available at this time. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is honored to serve the Magee Family.
Ernest Gregory
Jan 17, 2017
Carl Gregory, 88 01/17/17 Ernest "Carl" Gregory, 88, of Durham North Carolina passed away Tuesday, January 17,2017. Carl was born April 13, 1928 to Jackson and Lelia Gregory in the Lumberton\Fayetteville NC area. He was most proud of his service to his country as a US NAVY veteran. Carl was preceded in death by his wife, Merle Joyce Gregory,...
Lottie Andrews
Jan 17, 2017
Hillsborough- Mrs. Lottie Terrell Andrews, 89, of Hillsborough, NC, passed away on January 17, 2017 in Burlington, NC. Mrs. Andrews was born in Hillsborough to Charlie Lee Terrell and Lucy Dixon Terrell on March 7, 1927 and was one of 6 children. She went to school at Hillsborough High School. She married Dock Andrews on June 22, 1945 in...
Caroline Lindsay
Jan 17, 2017
Caroline Hassinger Lindsay, 85, of Chapel Hill, died on January 17. Caroline was born in Bristol, Virginia, to Martin and Caroline Hassinger. She attended Sullins College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Union Theological Seminary and Columbia Teachers College. Caroline was a pre-school teacher at Epworth Pre-school in Durham. She was active in the Association for the Education of Young Children, a mentor...
Mary Patrick
Jan 13, 2017
Mary Olive Patrick (née McGrath) died on January 13, 2017 in Durham, North Carolina. Ms. Patrick was born on May 14, 1919, in Wyandotte, Michigan to James Joseph McGrath and Verna Marie Burdeno and was married to Joseph Patrick. Mary went to Saint Patrick's High School and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Marygrove College in Detroit. She...
Jimmy Hamlin
Jan 13, 2017
Caldwell - Mr. James Villines "Jimmy" Hamlin, 75, died Friday, January 13, 2017. He was born in Orange County to the late Frances and Flint Hamlin on the same farm where his death occurred. He was a graduate of Hillsboro High School and attended Louisburg College. He served in the U.S. Army for two years. He worked with his...
John Hyer
Jan 13, 2017
In Memory of John Voorhees Hyer III February 17, 1933 - January 13, 2017 John "Jack" Voorhees Hyer III passed away on January 13, 2017 at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. Jack was born on February 17, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York to Margaret Murray Hyer and John V. Hyer II and was raised by his single mother...
Daniel Scott
Jan 12, 2017
Hillsborough native Daniel Kent Scott died on January 12, 2017, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A custom home builder, Kent was the son of Roland C. Scott and Luellen Daniel Scott, both deceased. Buried in Hillsborough at the Town Cemetery on January 19, survivors include Sue Polski, partner, of Hubertus, Wisconsin, a daughter, Jessica Scott of Raleigh, one sister, Ms. Barbara...
