OBITUARIES
Sydney Mabe
Jan 22, 2020
Sydney Nichole Mabe, 23 unexpectedly passed away, Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at her home in Hurdle Mills. She was born in Chapel Hill, the daughter of the late Anita Simmons and Frank Simmons. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her grandparents, Roy and Linda Blackwood. In addition to her father, she is survived by...
Norma Stock
Jan 21, 2020
Norma York Stock passed away on January 21, 2020 of natural causes in Chapel Hill. She was born Norma Aline York on 25 August 1924 to the late D.D. York and Ethel Kuykendall York in Haywood County, North Carolina. Norma grew up in the North Carolina mountains with three sisters and two brothers during the Great Depression. After graduating...
Elinor George
Jan 21, 2020
The Lord must have needed another angel. Elinor A George died of cancer on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. She was 83. Ellie’s entire life revolved around the quiet good things…raising sons, loving grandkids, gardening and reaching out to anyone who needed her touch. To her family, she made the simplest things special, whether it was childhood owl cookies or...
Cheslava Mann
Jan 17, 2020
Czesia (aka Jessie) Mann died peacefully at her home in Chatham County on January 17, a few weeks short of her 96th birthday. She leaves an extended family behind to mourn her passing, as well as many neighbors and friends who over time became her family as well. Born Czeslawa Idzikowska in Makowarsko, a village in the Pomerania region...
Samuel Wilburn, Jr.
Jan 16, 2020
Samuel Webster Wilburn Jr. died on January 16, 2020 at UNC Hospital. He was 90 years old. Sam was born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, the youngest of four to Iris and Samuel Wilburn. He joined the Navy as a medical corpsman and was stationed in Annapolis, Maryland and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 1953, he completed studies in bacteriology at...
Richard Smith
Jan 15, 2020
Mr. Richard Fenton Smith, age 69, passed away at his home in Chapel Hill on January 15, 2020. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assisting the Smith family.
Edith Tyndall
Jan 14, 2020
Edith Marie Carroll Tyndall, age 73, died Tuesday, January 14, 2020. She was a native of Durham and a retired employee of Orange County Schools. She was the owner and operator of ‘Kids Unlimited Daycare Centers’ for ten years. Wife of the late Curtis L. Tyndall, Jr. to whom she shared her life with for 47 years. She is...
Joyce Wilson Biggers
Jan 13, 2020
Joyce W. Biggers Obituary Chapel Hill, NC – Joyce W. Biggers of Chapel Hill passed away on January 13, 2020, at the age of 82. Joyce Biggers was born in Mecklenburg County, NC, to her parents, Parks and Margaret Wilson, both deceased. She graduated from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (present day UNCG) in 1959 (red...
Pegge Jill Davis
Jan 11, 2020
Pegge Jill Morris Davis, 92, of Hillsborough (formerly of Chapel Hill) passed on Saturday, January 11, 2020. She was born in High Point, NC on November 8, 1927 to Herman Martin Morris and wife Nell Morris. She grew up in Graham, NC and attended Elon College. Pegge was preceeded in death by her husband, Junius Ayers Davis, brother, Herman...
Avtar Singh
Jan 11, 2020
We have lost a shining star In Loving Memory of Professor Avtar Singh January 9, 1929 – January 11, 2020 It’s a long way from the high plains of Punjab in Northwest India to Mississippi and North Carolina, one might say worlds apart in miles as well as cultures and customs. Born in Patiala, Punjab, India, Avtar Singh’s keen...
Josephine Kalkowski
Jan 9, 2020
Josephine Coleman Kalkowski, 56, of Chapel Hill, NC passed away Thursday, January 9th, 2020. She was a loving wife, mother, sister, daughter, niece, sister-in-law and friend to all. She was born in Norfolk, VA, November 27th, 1963 to Kathleen Williamson and Edward Coleman. In 1986 she moved to Chapel Hill where she worked at UNC Hospitals as an electroencephalogram...
Aurelia Hayes
Jan 8, 2020
Aurelia Trimm Hayes (“Ree”) of Hillsborough, North Carolina, passed away on January 8, 2020 at the age of 90. Ree Hayes was born on September 8, 1929 to Charlie Trimm and Esther Berry Trimm of Efland, North Carolina. She graduated from Hillsborough High School. She was employed at AT&T for many years and retired from their Quality Control Department....
Emma Riley
Jan 6, 2020
Emma R. Riley passed away peacefully on Monday January 6, 2020, closing the chapter to a beautiful 85 year life beginning in Person county and ending Efland. Emma was 1 of 5 children to Betty and Sam B. Rice, born on May 4, 1934. Being a caretaker Emma was known for her kind heart. She loved to cook and...
Theodore Mason Schmidt
Jan 3, 2020
Theodore “Ted” Mason Schmidt passed away on January 3, 2020. Ted was born March 11, 1936 in Kansas City, MO to Carl H. and Irvine R. Schmidt. The family moved to Fernandina Beach FL when Ted was 4, where his brothers Steve and Jim were born. Ted grew up loving Fernandina and was active in the Fernandina Beach High...
Sue Cheek
Jan 3, 2020
Sue Hurley Cheek passed peacefully through the veil early Friday morning, January 3, 2020. She had recently been taken to a hospice in Pittsboro due to complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 72 years old. Sue was the only child of Ralph Gilmore and Theresa Carolyn Hurley Cheek, all of whom lived most of their lives within...
Thomas Gates, Sr.
Jan 2, 2020
Thomas Alvin Gates, Sr passed away on Thursday, January 2 at his home, with family by his side. Thomas was born on May 26, 1937 in Chapel Hill to the late Jack & Ethel Douglas Gates. He was married to his loving wife, the late, Gladys Crabtree Gates of Chapel Hill for 61 years. He was a good and...
Audrey Burkes
Jan 1, 2020
Audrey Louise Turner Burkes died peacefully surrounded by her family on January 1, 2020, at Duke Medical Center in Durham, NC, after complications from a fall. Audrey was born on September 18, 1937, in Columbus, OH. She was preceded in death by her parents Arch Turner, Sr., and Edith Turner and her brothers, Charles Turner and Arch Turner, Jr....
William Rudolph Baarens
Dec 31, 2019
William Rudolph Baarens, 77 of Mebane passed away at the Hospice Home of Alamance, Tuesday, December 31, 2019. A Memorial service will be held on Friday, January 3rd at 11am, Walker's Funeral Home Chapel of Mebane. Friends may visit with family following the service.
Franklin Kime Copeland
Dec 30, 2019
Franklin "Frankie” Kime Copeland, 61 of Mebane passed at Hospice Home of Alamance on Monday, December 30th. He is survived by his parents, James and Gaynelle Copeland, Wife, Janice Copeland of the home, Son, Spencer Copeland, (Kristin) of Mebane, Daughter, Shannon Copeland of Mebane, Grandchildren, Autumn, Greysen, Aubery and Nicolette, Two sisters, Jamie Squires and Darinda Thompson. A memorial...
Helen Perlmutt
Dec 30, 2019
Helen Perlmutt, a retired public school teacher who charmed everyone with her effervescent smile and a humidified Georgia-honed Geechee accent and for 66 years was a devout Chapel Hillian and Tar Heel fan, died early December 30, 2019. She was 93. Helen died after a short illness as gracefully as she lived her life, spending her last days swapping...
