OBITUARIES
Bill Holloway
May 2, 2015
Bill Holloway Born June 24, 1925, Mr. Bill Holloway, loving husband, wonderful father, grandfather, great grandfather and good friend, passed away Saturday, May 2, 2015. He was retired from Duke University after 35 years. He was a Duke fan and also loved the Atlanta Braves. He enjoyed being outside riding his John Deer lawn mower and taking care of...
Edwin Woods
Apr 28, 2015
Hillsborough - Edwin Kirk Woods, 56, died Tuesday, April 28, 2015. He was born in Durham County and grew up in Hillsborough. He was a graduate of Orange High School and Alamance Community College. He was employed at IBM and also worked at the family business of Woods Brothers. He was also self-employed as an independent contractor and land...
Ezequiel Belardo
Apr 27, 2015
Ezequiel "Zeke" Belardo, 73, of Mebane passed away on April 27, 2015. He was born December 23, 1941 in Vieques, Puerto Rico to the late Guillermina Cintron Belardo and Cruz Belardo. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by sister, Carmen Delgado. Those left to cherish his memory include his loving wife Lydia Belardo; daughter, Melissa...
Melvin Buckhalter
Apr 24, 2015
Mebane - Melvin Eugene "Bill" Buckhalter, Jr. Melvin Eugene "Bill" Buckhalter, Jr., 47, of Mebane passed away April 24, 2015 at home. He was born in Alamance County on August 30, 1967 to Mary Linda Moore Buckhalter and the late Melvin Eugene Buckhalter, Sr. Bill loved to hunt and fish and was huge fan of Nascar and drag racing....
Donald Cameron
Apr 20, 2015
Donald Dean Cameron died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on April 20, 2015 at the age of 87. He was born in McCook, Nebraska to the late Dr. John Cameron and Lillian (Dean) Cameron. He completed his undergraduate work at Southern Methodist University and his doctoral studies in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in 1953. He then moved...
Nancy Brummett Nelson
Apr 19, 2015
Nancy Carol Brummett Nelson, 71 of Mebane, formerly of Danville, VA passed away on April 19, 2014. She was born January 12, 1944 in Danville, VA to the late Golden Dove Gray Brummett and Paul Washington Brummett. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by brothers James Brummett and Earnest Brummett. Those left to cherish her...
Brenda Kutcher
Apr 17, 2015
Brenda Ayers Kutcher passed away unexpectedly and peacefully at her home on April 17, 2015. Brenda was born on March 12, 1944 to Wilma and Ralph Ayers. Brenda spent many happy years working in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, where she met her husband Mark. She and her husband moved to Chapel Hill,...
Wilma Hardee
Apr 16, 2015
ORANGE Wilma Merritt Hardee CHAPEL HILL - Wilma Merritt Hardee, widow of Elbert L. Hardee, died April 16, 2015. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m., April 18, 2015 at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Interment will follow in the church cemetery directed by Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill. The family will receive friends...
Priscilla Gilbert Otto
Apr 15, 2015
Obituary: Priscilla Ann Gilbert Otto (8-28-1945 to 4-15-2015) Priscilla Ann Gilbert Otto died peacefully at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill on April 15, 2015 following prolonged illness. Priscilla was born in Newport, RI on August 28, 1945 to Patricia O'Brien Gilbert and Robert Linwood Gilbert, Jr. She is survived by her husband, David Otto, of Carrboro, NC; brother...
Carrie Lee
Apr 15, 2015
Carrie Jane Lee (née Clayton), 91, passed away peacefully at the Hock Family Pavilion in Durham, NC, on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Indianapolis, IN on May 11, 1923. A longtime resident of Crete and South Chicago Heights, IL, in later years Carrie lived in Hillsborough and Durham, NC. During World...
Pauline Batton
Apr 11, 2015
Orange County Hillsborough - Pauline Elizabeth Burton Batton, 92, died Saturday, April 11, 2015. She was born in Orange County and attended the Orange County schools. She worked at Cone Mills until she retired. She was the organist for 40 years for the Church of the Nazarene in Durham and Orange Counties. She loved her family. Surviving are her...
Donald Rhew
Apr 7, 2015
Orange County Hillsborough - Donald Kirkland Rhew, 51, died Tuesday, April 7, 2015. He was the youngest of five boys and the only one that was a Tarheel fan. He attended Orange County schools. He was a people person. He loved to pull pranks on people. He also loved to play golf, play basketball, ride dirt bikes, spend time...
Virginia Price
Apr 5, 2015
Mebane - Virginia Arlene Riddle Price, 69, died April 5 , 2015. She attended Orange County schools and was employed by Byrds Foods and Lloyds Citgo. Surviving are three daughters: Laura Williams (Kevin), Lisa Williams, and Deborah Clark (Barry), three sisters: Edna V. Schwabe (Earnest), Shelby Jean W. Bower (Hank), and Brenda V. Sigmon (Dan), one brother, James Riddle...
Nancy Riggs
Apr 4, 2015
Nancy Jane Riggs, 72 of Cedar Grove joined our heavenly father on April 4, 2015 at UNC. She was born January 10, 1943 in Kanawha County, WV to the late Margaret Manahan and Albert Tury. She loved her garden, painting and watching the birds and deer in her backyard. She was warm, kind, generous and loved her family unconditionally....
Avis Dunagin
Apr 3, 2015
Efland - Mrs. Avis Pauline Dunagin, 88, died Friday, April 3, 2015. She was born November 2, 1926 to the late Nannie Mae and George Washington Dunman. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her loving husband of 56 years Delma Dunagin; step-son, Donnie Dunagin, two brothers and one sister. Surviving are her children: Calvin...
Willie Gates
Apr 2, 2015
CHAPEL HILL - Willie Andrew Gates Jr., passed away on April 2nd, 2015 at the age of 60. He is preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Helen Gates, and a brother, Harold Gates. He was known to people in the community as Billy, and to friends and family as "Babo," a name given to him by his...
John Herion
Mar 31, 2015
-CHAPEL HILL- John C. Herion, 87, retired Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, died at home on March 31 after a brief illness. He was born in Salisbury, NC, the eldest child of John H. and Helen Seaford Herion. He grew up in a modest home in Mount Pleasant, NC, and after high school enlisted in...
Jennifer Edwards
Mar 27, 2015
Jennifer Michelle Edwards, 37, of Burlington passed away at home on March 27, 2015. She was born on July 8, 1977 to Arthur Edwards and Donna Lampley Edwards. She was preceded in death by maternal grandmother Ruby Lampley; paternal grandparents Myrtle and Marcus Edwards, Sr., and father-in-law, Maurice Horner. In addition to her parents those left to cherish her...
William Dodson
Mar 25, 2015
William Fulton Dodson, 82, of Hillsborough passed away March 25th, 2015 at Brookshire Nursing Center. Born in Orange County, April 4, 1932, he was the son of the late Marshall Duke Dodson and Lillie Catherine Pickett Dodson, and was also preceded in death by a sister, Betty Mae Dodson, and an infant sister, Callie Dodson. William was a graduate...
John Couch
Mar 24, 2015
HILLSBOROUGH - John Edward Couch, 87, of Hillsborough, NC, peacefully passed away March 24, 2015 in Brookshire Nursing Facility in Hillsborough from natural causes. He was the son of Blanche and Gordon Couch of Durham and the husband of Dorothy R. Couch who passed July, 2014. He was also predeceased by his youngest son James Keith Couch in January...
