Local obituaries for Walker's Funeral Home

Mar 22, 2022

John Wesley Blythe, 61 of Durham has gone to be with his Lord and Savior on March 22, 2022. John was born on December 14, 1960 in Middletown, Ohio to Wesley and Beverly Blythe. He attended Middletown and West Middletown schools and graduated from D. Russell Vocational School in Machine Trades. He worked for a short time in Texas...

Mar 21, 2022

Carol Ann Flanagin passed away in her home on March 21st, 2022 in Durham, NC due to a battle with long-term illnesses. She was 52. Mrs. Flanagin was born on August 20th, 1969 in Alamance County to her parents: James Larry Bullock and Ruth Ann Ray. She was an alumni of Orange High School and an avid volunteer/supporter for...

Mar 18, 2022

Anne Smith Garrett died on March 18, 2022 at Sunnybrook Rehabilitation Center in Raleigh, NC. She was 83 years old. Anne was born on January 12, 1939 in Raleigh, NC. Her parents were Charles Alvin Smith and Irma Eloise Wood Smith. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas Blackwell Garrett II and her sister Edna Rebecca Neas....

Mar 17, 2022

Vernon R. “Rudy” Worley, 92, of Chapel Hill, passed away peacefully, March 17, 2022, at Parkview, following several months of declining health. He was born on September 26, 1929, to the late Jim and Eliza Worley of Johnston County, NC.

Rudy spent his career in the construction industry working on several...

Mar 15, 2022

Mrs. Helen Marie Johnston, age 94, passed away on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Arrangements are not complete. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assisting the Johnston family.

Mar 14, 2022

GREENSBORO – A worship service to celebrate the life of James Samuel Holmes will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at Guilford College United Methodist Church, 1205 Fleming Road, Greensboro, North Carolina 27410 with Reverends Jeremy Troxler and Tom Gibson officiating. The burial will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, 2022, at...

Mar 13, 2022

After 99 years full of life and love, Beulah Estelle Miller Irwin passed away at Duke Hospital in Durham, NC, on Sunday, March 13, 2022. She died of complications following surgery a week earlier. Beulah was born on December 10, 1922, in Holmes County, FL, the first child of Vernon and Loni Myers Miller. After her father died in...

Mar 11, 2022

Betty Lou Moore Terry of Mebane, NC passed away at her home on Friday, March 11, 2022 at the age of 82. Betty was a native of Orange County and was the daughter of the late Luther and Molly Moore. Betty is survived by her children LouAnn Myatt (Dallas) of Hillsborough, NC and Frankie Vaughan (Denise) of Cedar Grove,...

Mar 9, 2022

Michele Kathleen Reilly Creech died Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at the age of 72 following a complicated illness. Michele was born in New York, New York on November 23, 1949 to parents Michael Reilly and Kathleen Kenny Reilly. She was the youngest of four girls and attended grammar school at Good Shepherd Catholic School. She graduated from Mount St....

Mar 9, 2022

David Edward Morgan, loving husband and father, passed away March 9th, 2022 due to complications from brain cancer. David is survived by his wife Pam, children Katharine (Brandon) and James, grandson David Reid Morgan, mother Edna and brother Danny (Barbara). He was preceded in death by his father, Gene and brother, Mark. David was born in Albemarle, NC to...

Mar 9, 2022

MEBANE, NC – Betty Jean Smith, 94, died peacefully at home on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. She was born in Mebane in the same house on October 3, 1927, to June Nelson Smith and Annie Sartin Smith. B.J. graduated from Mebane High School and attended East Carolina Teachers College. On a Friday in 1946 she went to Western Electric...

Mar 8, 2022

Robert (Bob) Peter Guizzetti, 96, passed away on March 8, 2022. He was born on January 10, 1926. He is survived by his wife of nearly 17 years, Barbara (Bobby) Morrill Callahan Guizzetti, and his four daughters: Robin Jeffers (Dick), Christine Begley (Bobby), Janet Mallon (Rick), Patricia Guizzetti (Therese Quinn) and 4 step-children: Kathleen Callahan, Diane Perez (Charlie), Sharon...

Mar 7, 2022

Priscilla Corintha Clayton Ray entered Heaven’s gates on March 7, 2022 in Gainesville, Georgia after a brief illness. She was born in Hillsborough, North Carolina to Rainey Banes Clayton and Alcy Mae Johnson Clayton. After receiving her Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee, she taught high school in Ringgold and Loganville, Georgia and middle school in Waynesville,...

Mar 7, 2022

Donald McLean Helton passed away on March 6th, 2022. Don is survived by his wife, Susan Helton, his mother, Barbara Helton, his daughter Jenny Hester and her husband Daron, his son Donald Helton Jr. and his wife Shana, his sister-in-law Marion Helton, and his grandchildren: Helen, Sarah, and Rosa. Don was preceded in death by his father Clifton, his...

Mar 5, 2022

Lizzie (Liz) Charity Chikwanda beloved mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend and colleague passed away Saturday, March 5 , 2022 at her home in Chapel hill. Liz was born in Lusaka, Zambia on January 27, 1976 to Godwin N. Chikwanda and Winifreda P. Chikwanda. Liz graduated from Kabulonga Secondary School in lusaka in 1993. She relocated to the United States...

Mar 4, 2022

Della Louise Fredericksen Hudson, beloved wife, mother and friend, passed in her sleep on Friday, March 4th. She had battled Alzheimer’s for over a decade. Born March 2nd, 1942 in Oak Park, Illinois to Edward and Jesse Fredericksen, Della spent most of her childhood on a 160 acre farm in central Illinois. As a teacher for the Defense Department...

Mar 4, 2022

Samuel Bradford “Brad” McKnight, 63, died peacefully at home on March 4, 2022 after a long battle with cancer. He was born on October 29, 1958 in Chapel Hill, NC to Anzenette Andrews and the late Preston Lloyd McKnight.. Brad attended Parkwood Elementary School, Lowes Grove Junior High School, Jordan High School (all in Durham, NC), Randolph-Macon Academy (Front...

Mar 3, 2022

Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87. “I could produce a story as fast as I could type,” Mears once acknowledged — and he was a fast typist. He became the AP’s Washington bureau...

Mar 3, 2022

Rev. Armp Lenwood Strum, age 94, formerly of Hillsborough die March 3, 2022 in Burlington. He was born September 7, 1927, in Orange County. The son of the late Fletcher and Mary Viola Brown Strum. He was preceded in death by brothers, Oscar Strum, Melvin Strum, sisters, Stella Adams, Mandy Wheely, and Hazel Wagner. He was a veteran of...

Mar 3, 2022

Eunice Durham Crane, 89, of Mebane, passed away on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at Alamance Regional Medical Center. She was born on May 16, 1932, to the late Charles Cicero Durham and Ruth Woods, both deceased. She was married to Mr. Ira Boggs Jr and Mr. William Crane, both deceased. She was a care giver for many years for...