OBITUARIES
Erline Terrell
Jan 30, 2020
Mrs. Erline Harrison Terrell of Hillsborough, NC, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the age of ninety-five. She passed away at her residence surrounded by her family. She was born on March 30, 1924, to the late Claude and Ada Harrison in Atalla, Alabama. She was preceded in death...
Mary Robinson
Jan 30, 2020
Mary Alice Lloyd Robinson passed away suddenly at her home on Thursday, January 30th 2020. Mary Alice was born on May 13, 1932 and was raised in the Turner Strudwick house in downtown Hillsborough, NC and spent her entire life in Hillsborough. Most of it on the same block on which she was born. Mary Alice was born to...
Pearl Daisy Edwards
Jan 27, 2020
Pearl Daisy Shanklin Edwards, 95 of Efland passed away on January 27, 2020. Pearl was a member of the Quarter Century Club at Dixie Yarns and a lifetime member of Lebanon United Methodist Church in Efland. She was preceded in death by her parents, Murdock and Lula Shanklin; husband, Alexander G. Edwards; brother, Willie Shanklin; brother in law, Hubert...
Jane Parr
Jan 26, 2020
Jane Bolstad Parr died with grace at Carolina Meadows on January 26, 2020 at the age of 97. Born in New London, Minnesota in 1922, she met her husband, Robert G Parr (d. 2017) at the University of Minnesota when they were graduate students. They successfully navigated 72 years of marriage, living in Pittsburgh and Baltimore before choosing Chapel...
Gina Carroll
Jan 26, 2020
Gina Lynn Carroll, 51, left a crater in the hearts of many when she departed this world Sunday morning, January 26, 2020 at her home in Graham, North Carolina. Through this grief, let us take some time to honor this once bright light that has faded too soon. Gina was born at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill and graduated...
Samuel Borland
Jan 24, 2020
Samuel W. Borland, Sr., 94, of Cedar Grove, passed away in the comfort of his home Friday, January 24, 2020, following a brief illness. Sam was preceded in death by his wife, Gertrude Parker Borland, as well as his parents, Wallace and Mary Boland, brothers, Hughes Boland and John Boland and great-granddaughter, Christy Brown Johnson. During WWII, he proudly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
