Local obituaries for Walker's Funeral Home

Jun 3, 2013

HURDLE MILLS - Mr. Felton Grady Terrell, 83, died Monday, June 3, 2013. He was a native of Orange County and was educated in the Orange County schools. His first employment was at Western Electric in Burlington. He was a member of the first line crew with REA Electric building power supply for rural areas. He was a custom...

Jun 3, 2013

MEBANE - Mrs. Willah Tew "Doll" Shanklin, 84, died peacefully Monday, June 3, 2013. Doll led a full life, born in Sampson County in 1928 into a family of twelve children. She was preceded in death by her parents, Pearlie A. Tew and Daisy McLamb Tew, her husband of 49 years Samuel A. Shanklin, Jr., four brothers and one...

Jun 2, 2013

Chapel Hill Jeanne Barron Hough Parsons was born July 27, 1928 to Walton Ford Barron and Mildred Koch Barron in Columbia Missouri. At age seven, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where she attended Kansas City schools, and later attended the University of Missouri where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and the Vice President...

May 29, 2013

Henry Neil Kirkman, Jr., M.D. (Sept. 14, 1927 to May 29, 2013) CHAPEL HILL Dr. Henry Neil Kirkman, Jr., beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away Wednesday following a lengthy battle with cardio-vascular disease. Dr. Kirkman was a Kenan Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He chaired the Division of Genetics and...

May 29, 2013

BURLINGTON. Bobby Daniel Hinson, 77, died Wednesday, May 29, 2013. He retired from Cone Mills and was a member of Front Street United Methodist Church where he gained a large family. Surviving are two aunts: Elizabeth Hinson Cleary of Burlington and Thelma Hinson George of Raleigh; and his cousin, Charlie Cleary of Hillsborough. The memorial service will be held...

May 28, 2013

Ms. Faucette E. Williams died on May 28, 2013 at the age of 93 after a short illness. She retired from UNC Hospitals and was an original member of Farrington Road Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her sisters and brother Eleanor Harward, Nancy Ross and Robert B. Williams. She is survived by sister-in-law Carolyn Williams, Nephews...

May 27, 2013

Marian Wilson Turner died, the evening of May 27, 2013 at the Dubose Assisted Living Center on the campus of the Cedars Retirement Community in Chapel Hill of natural causes. Mrs. Turner was born on September 3, 1919 in Normal, Alabama on the campus of A&M University, the daughter of Exeline Polk Wilson and James H. Wilson, first African-American...

May 26, 2013

William G. Kern, Jr. March 12, 1933 - May 26, 2013 William G. Kern, Jr. passed away on May 26, 2013, at the age of 80. Born on March 12, 1933 in East Orange, New Jersey, he was the eldest son of William and Eleanor Kern. Bill graduated from Neptune High School in Neptune, NJ. He then traveled south...

May 25, 2013

May 23, 2013

Wilmington Lida Mae Miller Sparrow, formerly of Chapel Hill passed away in Wilmington where she made her home for the last ten years Thursday, May 23, 2013 She was the Daughter of Ethel & Garland Miller of Timberlake. Surving are a Daughter, Stella G. Norwood of Wilmington and Son, Phillip H. Sparrow of Chapel Hill and several Grand Children....

May 23, 2013

May 22, 2013

Chapel Hill George Willis Kramer died the evening of Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at The Cedars of Chapel Hill Dubose Health Center. He was born on November 5, 1926 in Hollis, New York. He was preceded in death by his wife of 36 years, Jacqueline Kramer. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Judith Kramer; his sons...

May 21, 2013

ORANGE COUNTY HILLSBOROUGH - Frank J. Davis, 93 a lifetime resident of Hillsborough, born February 12, 1920, passed away May 21, 2013, after many years of declining health. He was a charter member of Abundant Life Church, where he served as head of the Doorkeeper Ministry for many years. He retired from the American Tobacco Company after 34 &...

May 20, 2013

DURHAM - Madeline Copeland Curl, 82, died Monday, May 20 at her home in Croasdaile Village, Durham NC following a lengthy illness. She was the daughter of Alvis & Lizzie Wilson Copeland of Orange County, and a graduate of Chapel Hill High School. Mrs. Curl was an Executive Secretary until her retirement from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she served in...

May 16, 2013

ALAMANCE Gary Lynn Harwell, 55, passed from this life into the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 16, 2013 after a brief battle with cancer. Gary leaves behind his two sons Gary Harwell Jr. (Amber) and Brian Harwell (Angie), four grandchildren, Zakkary, Spencer, Gracie and Coda Harwell all of Doniphan, MO, his mother Margaret Monroe...

May 16, 2013

CHAPEL HILL Doris Neville Bennett, January 20, 1926 - May 16, 2013, died in her home. She was born in Orange County to the late Robert and Myrtle Neville. Doris is survived by her son, Van Bennett of Chapel Hill; two grandchildren, Robbie Bennett and Shanna Bennett Kirkman; and two great grandchildren, Isaac McCullough and Tiffany Kirkman. The eldest...

May 16, 2013

ORANGE Jane Powell Rody CHAPEL HILL - Jane Powell Rody, 81, of Chapel Hill, NC, died peacefully at home on May 16, 2013. Jane is survived by her husband, Martin J. Rody; her son, Marc PN Rody; and by her daughter, Kathy Rody Garbow. She is also survived by four grandchildren, Trevor and Matthew Garbow, and Drew and Heather...

May 15, 2013

HILLSBOROUGH - John Taylor Bivins, Jr., (64) . Johnny died peacefully at Duke Medical Center on May 15th after suffering a severe stroke, surrounded by his wife and loving daughters. He was born July 24, 1948, to John Taylor Bivins, Sr. and Evelyn Nicholson Bivins Atkins. He was preceded in death by his two sisters, Carolyn Bivins Welsh and...

May 13, 2013

May 12, 2013

ORANGE COUNTY HILLSBOROUGH - Annie Margaret Roberts Thompson, 95, of Hillsborough passed away on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at her residence. Born in Orange County on November 7, 1917 , she was the eldest child of the late Currie Paul Roberts and Alice Ray Roberts. She was a member of Cross Roads Baptist Church her entire life. She served...