OBITUARIES
Sarah "Sally" Ann Mallett Tomlinson
Mar 19, 2021
Mrs. Sarah Ann Mallett Tomlinson, 89 of Chapel Hill passed away on Friday, March 19, 2021 at Carolina Meadows, The Pines. Private services for Mrs. Tomlinson will be held at a later date. Walker’s Funeral home in Chapel Hill is assisting the family.
Peggy Mustian
Mar 17, 2021
Mrs. Peggy B. Mustian, 88, passed away, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, peacefully at her home where she was born in 1932. Mrs. Mustian was the daughter of the late Charles and Eula Berry. She was previously employed by Croscill Manufacturing from 1957 to 1999. Mrs. Mustian was an active member of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church her entire life....
Mary Rochelle Atwater
Mar 16, 2021
Mary “Rochelle” Atwater, daughter of the late Ben and Bertha Atwater of Chapel Hill, passed away on March 16, 2021 at Brookdale Chapel Hill Assisted Living. Rochelle was born September 16, 1926 in Chatham County, graduated from Pittsboro High School and, afterwards, the secretarial school at Pittsboro High School. Following graduation, she worked at the BC Plant and Baldwins...
Betty Lucille Carter
Mar 16, 2021
Betty Lucille Tapp Carter, 97, recently residing at Mebane Ridge Assisted Living in Mebane and formerly of Elk Drive in Burlington passed at Liberty Commons on Tuesday March 16, 2021 where she was recovering from surgery to repair a broken leg. Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, Harold “Bill” Carter, and son William Keith Carter. She was...
George Anthony Trapp
Mar 15, 2021
George Anthony (Tony) Trapp, 82, of Hillsborough, NC, died Monday afternoon, March 15, 2021 at home. Born December 1, 1938 in Washington, D.C., he was the son of the late Francis and Frances Trapp. He is survived by his wife Ellen Trapp, son Raymond Trapp of Cocoa Beach, FL, daughters Carolyn Trapp (Brian Young) of Efland, NC, and Melanie...
Vickie Holcomb
Mar 15, 2021
Vickie Lynn Holcomb, age 62, and a resident of Hillsborough passed away at her home on Monday, March 15, 2021. Vickie was born on December 2, 1958 in Gassaway, WV to Linda Kay Holcomb and the late Leon Holcomb. Vickie Loved spending her time reading all kinds of books, solving different kinds of puzzles and playing with her dolls...
Walter Frank Strucinski
Mar 13, 2021
Walter Frank Strucinski, 86, of Broadway, NC, died Saturday, March 13, 2021 at UNC Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC. He was born June 30, 1934 in New York City to Michael and Czeslawa Strucinski. Walter is survived by his wife of 55 years, Virginia Strucinski; two daughters, Ann Weingartz and husband Brian, Lynn Streeter and husband Todd; three granddaughters,...
Dr. Robert Michael Hoefges
Mar 9, 2021
Dr. Robert Michael Hoefges, 61, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina passed away March 9, 2021. Michael was born on February 24, 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Robert P. and Dorothy R. Hoefges. He graduated from Forest Park High School in Cincinnati in 1978. Michael earned his Bachelor’s, Juris Doctorate, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from University of Florida. He practiced...
Florene Dunn Funk
Mar 8, 2021
Florene Dunn Funk, born on Easter Sunday, 1924, passed away on March 8, 2021 at the AuthoraCare Hospice Home in Burlington. Florene was a native of Mebane, North Carolina, the sixth of eight children born to Rudy Tate and Caroline Smith Dunn. She was predeceased by her husband, Edward and her son, John. She is survived by her son,...
Nancy T Grady
Mar 7, 2021
Nancy Ann Tucker Grady was born in Hillsborough, NC, on February 17th,1935, the daughter of Maude Crabtree Tucker and Herbert Tucker. She retired from Honeywell. Later, going on to work with close friend Kaye Byrd at Butterfly Kisses Daycare. Nancy was always dedicated to her family and friends. She enjoyed walking around Historic Hillsborough, hiking on the Occoneechee Mountain...
Linda Teresa Penland
Mar 7, 2021
Linda Teresa Jones Penland Linda Teresa Jones Penland 65, of Graham passed away Sunday March 7, 2021, at her residence. Linda a native of Orange County, she was the daughter of Hazen Jones and Hazel Whitt Jones both deceased along with brothers Stanley Jones, Jimmy Jones, sisters Pauline Mayton, Margaret Moore. She is survived by her husband Bobby Penland...
Beverly Greenhill Ferguson
Mar 6, 2021
Beverly Greenhill Ferguson born on January 2, 1953, passed away surrounded by love at UNC Hospital on March 6, 2021. A true Chapel Hill native, Beverly attended Chapel Hill High School. Working in different departments throughout her 30 years at UNC Hospitals; she retired within the OBGYN clinic. This was a position that she loved and truly became her...
Irma Dean Hudson
Mar 6, 2021
Chapel Hill - Mrs. Irma Dean Johnson Hudson, 96, wife of the late Roland Merle Hudson, died Saturday morning at Parkview Health and Rehabilitation Center in Chapel Hill. Mrs. Hudson is survived by her children, Gail Hudson Neely, and her husband, Ed, of Chapel Hill, and Raymond Hudson of Bradenton, FL; granddaughters, Dana Ruth Neely and Kathryn Rose Neely....
Emma Pearl Simpson
Mar 5, 2021
Emma Pearl Berry Simpson of Rougemont, NC passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, March 5, 2021. Pearl was born on January 22, 1931 to the late Jerome G. Berry and Clair Miller Berry in Caldwell. She married Noah Simpson and they were married for 54 years. Pearl worked second shift at American Tobacco Company for 36 years....
Robert Bacon, Jr.
Mar 1, 2021
Robert E. Bacon, Jr. passed away March 1, 2021, in Saco, Maine. He was born October 17, 1929, in Holyoke, MA to Robert E. and Lillian Farr Bacon. He had great pride in the area he grew up in. Talked often of his adventures at the Holyoke Water Power Plant where his father worked. After he graduated from Mt....
Joseph Donn Rowand
Feb 25, 2021
Joseph Rowand, Creator and Director of Somerhill Gallery from 1972-2010 and formidable impresario of the regional contemporary art scene passed away on Feb. 25, a victim of the Covid virus. He was 78. Joe’s Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, which later relocated to Durham, brought together several generations of artists and aspiring art collectors in a gallery environment that...
Elizabeth Mckuhen
Feb 24, 2021
Mrs. Elizabeth Faye McKuhen, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Arrangements are incomplete. Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough is assisting the McKuhen family.
Carol Wharton Page
Feb 24, 2021
Carol Wharton Page, 87, passed away at the Arbor of Galloway Ridge, Pittsboro, NC on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Carol Annetta Wharton was born in Washington, DC on December 9, 1933, to Claude Wharton and Eva Barker Wharton. Carol grew up in Washington, DC with her older sister Ann, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. Carol attended Syracuse...
Shirley Marie Van Pelt
Feb 23, 2021
Shirley Van Pelt (Young), 94, died in her home at Elmcroft Assisted Senior Living in Hillsborough, NC, February 23, 2021. Shirley was born on November 14, 1926, in Altoona, PA to the late Ralph F. Young, Sr., and Mable (Hicks) Young. After high school, she worked at a Sylvania plant in Pennsylvania during WWII. After the war she traveled...
Gerald Dewey Mcelreath
Feb 22, 2021
Gerald Dewey McElreath passed away suddenly Feb. 22 at UNC Hospitals. He will be terribly missed by his friends and family, especially by his wife of 52 years. Jerry loved his family, animals, golf and vehicles of every type. He was a veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Navy Seabee. After Vietnam he spent...
