OBITUARIES
Dorothy Duke
Apr 12, 2014
Durham Dorothy Osborne Duke June 26, 1920-April 12, 2014 Born to Ina Minatra Osborne and Foster Osborne in Giles County, Tennessee, the ninth of eleven children, Dot was an excellent student, and played on her high school basketball team. She often told her family about country life in Giles County, such as leading their red cow to the creek,...
Margaret Phelps
Apr 12, 2014
Obituary for Margaret W. Phelps Margaret Walker Phelps, 99, of Hillsborough, died Saturday April 12, 2014. Mrs. Phelps was at home with her family at the time of her passing. Margaret was born in Orange County on April 3, 1915 to J. Edward and Sudie Dameron Walker. Margaret was the surviving sibling, being predeceased by two siblings, Harold Walker...
Estelle Strum Blackwelder
Apr 11, 2014
Orange County Hillsborough - Mrs. Estelle Strum Blackwelder, 96, died April 11, 2014. She was a life time resident of Orange County. Mrs. Blackwelder was born October 5, 1917 to the late Dick and Lizzie Strum. She was also a caring mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She is in death predeceased by her husband Charlie Blackwelder and brother, Matthew...
Colleen Hall
Apr 8, 2014
Colleen "CoCo" McCrea Hall, age 63, died April 8, 2014 in her home in Chapel Hill, NC after courageously battling cancer for more than 27 years. CoCo was born September 29, 1950 in Baltimore, MD to Betty Carl McCrea and the late Edward Wesley McCrea. In 1968, she graduated from Towson High School where many lifelong friendships began. On...
Henry Pope
Apr 5, 2014
Orange County Hillsborough - Henry Thomas Pope Senior, 84, of 415 North Cameron Street, Hillsborough, passed away on Saturday April 5, 2014, at home with his family at his bedside. A lifetime resident of Orange County, he was born in Durham on January 18, 1930, the son of Sallie Lee and Charlie Bunn Pope, Sr. He spent the first...
Louis Vine
Apr 3, 2014
Dr. Louis L. Vine, 91, passed away April 3, 2014 in Myrtle Beach, SC. He was born May 19, 1922 to Bella and Paul Levine in Brooklyn, NY. At 16, he went to undergraduate at Cornell University (and played third base for the baseball team)Then on to Middlesex University Veterinary College, now part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass....
Edith Walker
Apr 1, 2014
Edith "Allene" Walker Born February 11, 1941 Died April 1, 2014 Allene Walker was diagnosed on March 21, 2014 with advanced lung cancer. It was her wish to have hospice care at her daughter Susan's home, where she had lived the last four years. She was surrounded by family at her passing. She was pre-deceased by her parents; Edmond...
Doris Gill
Mar 29, 2014
Chapel Hill Kind and tenderhearted. A champion for the underdog and the downtrodden. An extraordinary self-less and humble person, always thinking of the other person first, even after Parkinson's Disease had crippled her body. An exceptional volunteer. Her life was grounded in her strong belief in God, and her greatest love after God was her family and helping others....
Patricia Kropp
Mar 29, 2014
Patricia Kropp died on March 29 at Carol Woods Retirement Community surrounded by her family. She and her husband Paul are long term residents of Chapel Hill. She was the mother of David of Columbus, OH and Sonia of Chapel Hill. She had 5 grandchildren and 4 step grandchildren. She experienced many adventures in life as a stewardess for...
Kathleen Brooks
Mar 28, 2014
Kathleen Ridgeway Brooks 11/13/24-3/28/14 passed away peacefully at WhiteStone/The Masonic and Eastern Star Home in Greensboro NC, surrounded by loved ones. Kathleen was born in Honea Path, SC., was preceded in death by her husband Clyde Kenneth Brooks, Jr. and her parents Robert Talmedge Ridgeway and Ruth Ridgeway of Princeton SC . Also two brothers, Bill and Joe Ridgeway,...
Elsie Ellis Dodson
Mar 28, 2014
Hillsborough - Mrs. Elsie Mae Ellis Dodson, age 89, a resident of Dairy Land Road died on March 28, 2014. Mrs. Dodson was born in Chatham County on October 24, 1924 to the late Lula Tripp Ellis and John Ellis. Elsie retired from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She was also a caring mother and grandmother....
Donna Johnson Andrews
Mar 27, 2014
Efland - Mrs. Donna Christine Johnson Andrews, age 60, died on March 27, 2014 at 1403 Blue Jasper Lane in Efland. Mrs. Andrews was born in Davidson County on December 1, 1953 to the late Carl Johnson and Mary MeLinda Coffee Johnson. Donna married Frank Andrews, Sr. and moved to Orange County in 1970. She was a homemaker and...
Joseph Robertson
Mar 25, 2014
Joseph H. Robertson, Jr. MEBANE — Mr. Joseph H. Robertson, Jr., 68, passed away, surrounded by his family, on Tuesday March 25, 2014, in Mebane, NC. He was the son of Joseph H. Robertson, Sr., and Kathleen G. Robertson, both deceased, and husband of Frankie W. Robertson for 51 years. Joe earned his associate degree from Durham Tech, his...
Susan Schwab
Mar 24, 2014
CHAPEL HILL Surrounded in her North Carolina home by her family, Susan F. Schwab passed away peacefully on March 24 from pancreatic cancer. Born August 13, 1952, she was raised in Tonawanda, New York and attended St. Amelia School and Mount Saint Mary Academy. After graduating from the University of Buffalo, Susan began a 30+ year career in information...
David Hall
Mar 22, 2014
HILLSBOROUGH - David Linden Hall, Sr., 76, died Sunday, March 23 . He was born in Orange County and attended the Orange County schools. He served in the National Guard. He worked for the Hall Brothers who provided the stone for the first South Duke Hospital. He also worked for Wilkerson Grading and retired from the City of Chapel...
Teresa Goodson Bullock
Mar 19, 2014
HILLSBOROUGH - Mrs. Teresa Bullock, age 53 of 2007 US 70-A East, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at home where she was surrounded by family and friends she loved. She was a native of Durham County and attended the Orange County schools. She and her husband, Randy, were married in 1980. She was employed by Hatfield-Berrang Hearing Aid...
James Luxton
Mar 19, 2014
James Louis Luxton passed away Wednesday morning, March 19, 2014 at his home in Durham, NC. He was the son of late John Virgil and Fannie "Bud" Smith Luxton and was born February 4, 1923 in Chatham County and he grew up in Lee County. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Clark Luxton, his children: son, James "Jim"...
Helen Scott
Mar 16, 2014
HAW RIVER - Mrs. Helen Fay Horner Scott, 72, died Sunday, March 16, 2014. She was a native of Orange County and attended the Orange County schools. She was a very loving mother, grandmother, and sister. She loved working and cooking. She was the world's greatest Nana. Surviving are her daughter, Fay Scott McPherson, Haw River, her son, Mark...
Patricia Marshall Sheffey
Mar 12, 2014
Chapel Hill, NC Patricia Ruth Marshall Sheffey, a Chapel Hill, North Carolina resident born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana to the late Robert and Winnie Marshall, on October 13, 1926, died March 12,2014 at the home of her daughter, attended by her loving family and UNC Hospice. She attended Tulane University after World War II and was one of the...
