OBITUARIES
John Dee Wagner
Oct 3, 2022
Full Obituary to follow.
Service Arrangements:
Visitation - 5:30 - 6:30pm Thursday, October 6, 2022 at Walker's Funeral Home in Mebane
Memorial Service - 7:00pm Thursday, October 6, 2022 at Walker's Funeral Home in Mebane
Bessie Irene Heath Lloyd
Oct 3, 2022
Carrboro - Bessie Irene Heath Lloyd was born on July 24, 1938 in Pitt County, NC to John Heath and Annabelle Manning Heath. After an extended illness, it is with great sadness that we announce her passing on October 3, 2022 in her home with family. She married Willie Clay Lloyd, Jr. on April 4, 1958 and had 5...
Violet Elizabeth Briggs
Oct 1, 2022
Violet Elizabeth Briggs
12/31/2003-10/1/2022
We will love you forever.
Violet had an absolutely brilliant mind, the kindest heart, and a dark, old soul. She was a champion of the downtrodden, a gifted musician and artist, and walked the earth in indomitable style. She...
Caroline Porter
Sep 29, 2022
Mother to Oliver Porter and Martha Lou Pupcott, Wife to Audrie Porter. Sister to Elizabeth Porter and Genevive Porter. Daughter to Marcy Krawcheck and Edwin Porter. Beloved by far too many to name.
A memorial gathering will be Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 5:30P.M. - 7:00 P.M.at Walker's Funeral Home of...
John Richard Leonard Iii
Sep 28, 2022
Dr. John Richard Leonard III passed away peacefully at home with family on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. He was born October 24, 1943 in Lexington, NC, the son of John Richard Leonard II and Hazel Everhart Leonard. He graduated as class president and valedictorian from Lexington Senior High School in 1962. He was a proud Tar Heel and Morehead...
Jennifer Leah Gilman
Sep 28, 2022
It is with great shock and sadness that we inform you that Jennifer “Jenn” Leah Gilman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, therapist, and true friend of many many people passed away on September 28, at the age of 40.
Jenn earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern Maine, and spent much...
Russell Norman Glatz
Sep 27, 2022
Russell Norman Glatz (Russ) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina died peacefully in his home on September 27, 2022, with his beloved wife Toni by his side. His colorful life and gentle charm made a substantial, lasting impact on all who knew him as a husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and friend. Russ started his grand adventure on April 2,...
Kate Frances Womble
Sep 26, 2022
Kate Frances Womble, 86, formerly of Mebane passed away on September 26, 2022 at The Bryan Center of Yanceyville, North Carolina. She was born on January 6, 1936 to Mr. Lonnie and Martha King Womble, both deceased.
A service to celebrate her life will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at Walker’s Funeral Home...
Jerry Alvin Hawkins
Sep 25, 2022
JUNE 21, 1942 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Jerry died on September 25, 2022, in Duke Hospital after a brief illness. He was born to parents Alvin and Elma Laws Hawkins on June 21,1942, in Hurdle Mills, NC. He graduated from Aycock High School in Cedar Grove, NC in 1960. He attended...
Kathi Grady Daly
Sep 23, 2022
Kathi Grady Daly, age 60, died peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on Friday, September 23, 2022 after a 10 year long, hard fought battle with ALS. A native of Wilson, NC, Kathi graduated from Fike High School in Wilson in 1980. She was the head cheerleader there and always led with enthusiasm and by example. Kathi...
Deborah Sparks Lee
Sep 23, 2022
Deborah Sparks Lee of Mebane, NC passed peacefully, but unexpectedly, Friday, September 23, 2022 at home. Deborah was born in Greenville, SC to Frank Sparks and Hilda Alford on June 10, 1956, but resided in Durham, NC most of her life until moving to Mebane.
Deborah is survived by her husband...
Ernest Archie Dollar, Sr.
Sep 23, 2022
On September 23, 2022 Ernest Archie Dollar Sr. passed away after a long battle with cancer in West Jefferson, North Carolina. He was a native of Chatham County born July 31, 1936 to Ernest and Helen Dollar. Archie graduated from Chapel Hill High School in 1955 and went on to serve in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958...
James Clay Rhodes
Sep 22, 2022
Full Obit to be posted when it is available.
Services are provided by Walker's Funeral Home in Mebane
Ann B. Cockrell
Sep 22, 2022
Ann Baines Cockrell passed away on September 22, 2022 in Chapel Hill, NC. She was 82. She was born on June 26, 1940 in Washington, DC and raised in Kensington, Maryland. Family and many friends knew her as “Penny.”
She attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, and graduated from Duke University in 1962, where...
Magdalena Maria Gebska-Wojdynska
Sep 20, 2022
MAGDALENA GEBSKA-WOJDYNSKA OBITUARY
Magdalena Gebska-Wojdynska
September 20, 2022
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Dr. Magdalena Maria Gebska-Wojdynska of Chapel Hill passed away in late September due to complications from cancer. A beloved physician, wife, mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother, her kindness and ability to delight in life's small wonders will be...
William Brown
Sep 18, 2022
William Joseph Brown, 87, passed away on Sunday, September 18 in Chapel Hill, NC. Originally from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Bill graduated from West Catholic High School and Villanova University. After a two year service in the US army, he worked as a copywriter for advertising firms in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. After retirement, he moved to Florida...
Mark Veety
Sep 17, 2022
Mark Donald Veety, 69, died on September 17th, 2022 at Chatham Hospital in Siler City, North Carolina surrounded by his family. Mark was born on April 17th, 1953 in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Donald Veety and Arline (Huggler) Soderbloom.
Mark graduated from Middletown High School in Middletown, New York in 1971, enlisted in the United States...
Charlotte (Dunlap) Briggs Solomon
Sep 14, 2022
Charlotte (Dunlap) Briggs Solomon of Carrboro, NC, Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at UNC Hospitals. She was preceded in death by her parents, Vester and Bessie (Wall) Dunlap of Madison; brother, Larry Dunlap of High Point, and former husbands, James B. Briggs of Yanceyville and George Solomon of Roxboro.
Survivors are one daughter, Amanda Briggs (Cindy)...
Dorothy Elizabeth Crabtree
Sep 14, 2022
Dorothy “Beth” Crabtree went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on September 14, 2022; she was 58 years old. Beth was born in Washington, DC on November 1, 1963 to the late Harold Andrew and Kenna Sue McKenzie. In 1981 she graduated from Athens High School in Athens, W.V. She went to Concord College in Athens for a...
Eric Christian Stachnik
Sep 11, 2022
Eric Christian Stachnik, our beloved son, passed away on Sunday, September 11, 2022. He was born in Rome, NY on June 11th, 1990 and attended Rome Catholic and public schools, graduating from Rome Free Academy in 2008.
He moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 2010 and began a successful career as a sales manager. He...
