OBITUARIES
Avery Leroy "Lee" Howard
Jan 28, 2019
Avery Leroy “Lee” Howard, 81 of Graham, formally of Hillsborough, died peacefully at his home on January 28, 2019. Mr. Howard was a native of Cleveland county and retired from Blythe Construction as a highway Superintendent. Mr. Howard was proceeded in death by his parents Roy and Jessie Howard. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn Howard; Daughters, Vone...
Harold Strayhorn
Jan 28, 2019
Mr. Harold W. Strayhorn, 77, died peacefully on January 28, 2019, in Presbyterian Home, Hawfields. He lived his life in Hillsborough and was a long time client of Orange Enterprises. Harold was the fourth child of Herman H. and Lucille W. Strayhorn. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother-in-law, Burch Compton. He is survived by his sisters...
Beatrice Jones
Jan 27, 2019
Beatrice K. Jones passed away Sunday, January 27, 2019 in Hillsborough, NC. She had just celebrated her 92nd birthday on January 6th. Bea Bea, as she was affectionally known by family and friends, was retired from Kaiser Roth in Burlington, NC. She was a lifelong resident of Hillsborough and lifelong member of Eno United Methodist Church. She was also...
James Mccallum
Jan 23, 2019
Mr. James Richard “Dick” McCallum, a resident of Durham passed away at Duke Regional Hospital on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at the age of 94 years old. Dick was born in Ripley, TN on July 30, 1924 to the late R.B. and Bess McCraw McCallum. He worked for many years as a plaster contractor in the Durham area. Dick...
Felix Germuth
Jan 23, 2019
Felix Creighton Germuth passed away on January 23, 2019 having recently celebrated her 91st birthday with family and friends. Born in Winston-Salem, NC, she attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, NC as part of the first class of women. Among other things she was a mother, homemaker, pet owner, voracious reader of history and politics, and a competitive...
Jill Galloway
Jan 22, 2019
Jill Foltz Craver Galloway, 81, died peacefully at her home on January 22nd 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, due to cancer. She was born on December 7th, 1937 in Winston-Salem, NC to Sarah and Schallert Foltz. She was the second of their three children. She was a graduate of Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina and...
Bratcher Evans
Jan 22, 2019
Mr. Bratcher Warren Evans, 95, died Tuesday, January 22, 2019. He was a native of Orange County and attended St. Mary's School. He first worked with a saw mill and next with Bellevue Mills and retired from Western electric in Burlington. He started the Council of Aging and was the bus driver which he really enjoyed. His greatest joy...
Josephine Moura
Jan 21, 2019
Josephine Laura Moura (Jo) passed away peacefully of natural causes on January 21, 2019 at the youthful age of 95. In 2007, at the age of 84, and in order to be closer to family, Jo and Art moved from Venice, FL (where they had retired to from Brazil) to Fearrington Village, NC, and created yet another beautiful, comfortable...
Joseph Pilarski
Jan 20, 2019
Mr. Joseph Carl Pilarski, 61, died Sunday, January 20, 2019. He was a native of Orange County and attended the Chapel Hill Schools. He was a beekeeper and sold honey. He enjoyed working with the bees and his family. Surviving are his father, Jerome M. Pilarski, Sr., two sisters: Karen P. Herndon and Katherine P. Scott, and his brother,...
Frances Mears
Jan 19, 2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Frances R. Mears, an Associated Press reporter, editor and bureau chief during a journalism career that spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday. She was 66. Mears had been ill with cancer, said her husband, Walter R. Mears, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political writer and retired AP vice president. After more than a decade in...
James Wilson
Jan 18, 2019
Professor James Frank (“Jim”) Wilson, aged 85, died Friday, January 18, at the Hock Memorial Pavilion of Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, after a long, joyful and successful life. Jim was born in Buffalo, New York, on May 26, 1933, the first son of Elma Peck and James Thomas Manning (“J. T. M.”) Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. As...
Frieda Summers
Jan 17, 2019
Mrs. Frieda Maria Summers, 82, died January 17, 2019 at her daughter's residence in Raleigh. Funeral services will be held in Augusta, Georgia, at a day and time to be announced. A full obituary will be published as soon as it is completed. Walker's Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is assiting the Summers family.
Charmyne Keary
Jan 17, 2019
Charmyne T. Keary died on 17 Jan 2019. The cause of death was cancer of the lung. Born in Clewiston, FL she moved with her family to Cali, Colombia in South America where she went to school in both Spanish and English and later was a simultaneous translator. She also taught Spanish and English in schools around the world....
Patricia Ann Drumheller
Jan 15, 2019
Patricia Mitchell Drumheller Pat completed her six year long battle with a severe form of dementia in the late evening hours of January 15, 2019 at home in Mebane surrounded by family and caretakers at the age of 63. She was born on October 28, 1955 in Watts Hospital in Durham to DeWitt and Belle Mitchell. Pat graduated from...
Larry Copley
Jan 14, 2019
Mr. Larry Carrington Copley, 79, died Monday, January 14, 2019. He was born in Durham to Mary and Thomas Copley. He attended the Durham County Schools. He farmed and was employed at Erwin Mills. He married Myrtle Copley and lived in Durham until they moved to Hillsborough in 1985. He worked for Earl Latta and later retired from N.C....
Marvin Seagroves
Jan 14, 2019
Marvin Lewis Seagroves Durham Mr. Marvin Lewis Seagroves, 81 died in his home and made his journey to his heavenly father Monday January 14th. He was born the son of the late Marvin (Dandy) and Virgie (Mema) Seagroves on June 27th 1937 in Durham. He is survived by his wife Helen Seagroves of Durham; one son Johnny Ware of...
Brenda Kirlik
Jan 12, 2019
Brenda Joan Larson Kirlik passed away peacefully on Jan. 12, 2019 at the Hock Family Pavillion in Durham following a lengthy illness. Brenda was born on July 29, 1961 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada to Sixten and Elizabeth Larson. She is survived by her husband Brian, daughter Erin, brother John of Burlington, Ontario and sisters Donna Waller of London, Ontario...
James Johnson
Jan 11, 2019
James "Randy" Johnson, age 55, passed away peacefully on January 11, 2019, at his home. He was born August 27, 1963, to the late Richard "Red" and Faye Johnson. He attended Orange County public schools. He worked as an auto technician for Crown Honda at Southpoint for 25 years until his retirement. He married his loving wife of 37...
Lawrence Moore
Jan 8, 2019
Lawrence Daniel Moore, "Dan", died peacefully January 8, 2019 at his home in Chapel Hill, NC, at the age of 72. Dan was born on July 13, 1946 to the late James Elton and Lura Lois Parrish Moore in Lucama. NC. He moved to University Lake at 18 months of age outside of Carrboro, NC, where he spent most...
Janice Marie Ray
Jan 6, 2019
Mrs. Janice H. Ray age 57 of Mebane died on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at Alamance Regional Hospital. She was born in Durham county and was the daughter of the late Elwood Hill Harris and Melba Blalock. She is survived by her son Joshua Ray; brothers Michael Wayne Harris, Ronald E. Harris, Hugh Timothy Harris; sister, Elizabeth Ann Harris...
