OBITUARIES
Louise Scarlett
Nov 4, 2018
Louise Beaver Jones Scarlett, 94, died November 4, 2018. She was a native of Hillsborough and attended the Orange County schools. She married Ellis happily at age 16. She enjoyed cooking for family and friends especiall;y her "biscuits". Four children were born whom she loved very much as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. Surviving are her children: Ellis...
Sylvia Bowman
Nov 4, 2018
Sylvia Jean Bowman, born December 4, 1942, passed away at her home, surrounded by family on November 4, 2018. Sylvia never went anywhere without being dressed to impress. She was a true lover of all things pink, hearts, westerns and Elvis, but what she loved more than anything was her family. She enjoyed sewing pajamas, costumes and horse show...
Janice Moss
Nov 3, 2018
Janice Ann Davis Moss, 70, a resident of 531 East Carver Street, Durham, passed peacefully surrounded by her friends and family that loved her, and whom she loved, on November 3rd, 2018 at Duke Regional. Mrs. Moss was a retired hairdresser of 45 years. She was the daughter of the late Joseph and Allene Davis. She was a lifelong...
Noel Parker
Nov 1, 2018
Noel David Godfree Parker was born in Glendale, California, just outside Los Angeles on 9th January 1937. He was the son of Eric, a World War I veteran, and Eveline, a former employee of the Bell Telephone Co. He was a loving brother to Joan, Stan, Ruth and Rosemary. He was a citizen variously of the United States, Canada,...
Barry Whitsel
Nov 1, 2018
Chapel Hill, North Carolina On November 1, we lost Barry, father, grandfather and Ruth’s husband and life partner for almost sixty years. He was a gentle, quiet man with a wry sense of humor that drew both his friends and family to him. Barry loved the outdoors, gardening, hiking, biking, fishing and kayaking in the North Carolina mountains, as...
Dwight Compton, Sr.
Nov 1, 2018
Dwight Erskin Compton, Sr. was called home on November 1, 2018. A native of Cedar Grove, NC, he was born April 7, 1937 to James and Hazel Compton “in the house in which I live.” He lived by his faith. He believed in family, farming and bringing light to the lives of others, young and old. To know him...
Howard Stier
Oct 30, 2018
Howard A Stier, 79 of Apex, NC passed away October 30, 2018 at Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC while on an amazing journey at the forefront of living life fully and causing the improbable with incurable blood cancer. A gentle yet indomitable spirit, his generosity, inquisitiveness, humor and love of life was an inspiration every day. With quiet certainty,...
Gail Huntington
Oct 30, 2018
Dr. Gail Shivell Huntington, known also by her nickname Kris, passed away from complications due to a stroke on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. She was in her own home at Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, surrounded by family and her beloved, spoiled cat, Abbey. Born on November 26, 1933, to Kirk and Berthe Shivell, Dr. Huntington grew...
William David Nance
Oct 29, 2018
Mr. William "David" Nance age 60 of Mebane died on October 29th, 2018 at Alamance Regional Medical Center. He was born in Alamance County and was the son of William Wiley Nance of Cary and the late Nancy Gayle Peace. He is also survived by his special Aunt Edith Nance Gilmore of Burlington. David worked for Patriot Small Engine...
Grace Allen Braxton
Oct 25, 2018
Mrs. Grace Allen Johnson Braxton age 96 of Burlington died on Thursday, October 25th, 2018 at the White Oak Manor in Burlington, NC. She was born in Alamance County and was the daughter of the late Grace and William Johnson. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her three sisters and five brothers. She is...
Mary Patrick
Oct 25, 2018
Mrs. Mary M. Patrick, 69, died Thursday night at her home in Bullock, NC. Mrs. Patrick was born on February 14, 1949 to the late Henry Louis and Margaret Plaxco Patrick. She is survived by her husband, Alan R. Hall, of the home; sisters, Jane Patrick Findlay, of Grand Junction, CO, Dr. Barbara Patrick, of Clarksboro, NJ; three nieces;...
Michael Arcure
Oct 24, 2018
Mr. Michael Benjamin Arcure, died Wednesday evening at his home in Raleigh. Michael was born in Greensboro, North Carolina to Ann Marie and Scott C. Arcure. His family relocated to Chapel Hill in 2001, where Michael graduated from Carrboro High School in 2013. Michael loved animals, playing baseball and basketball, enjoyed fishing and being outdoors, including water-sports on Jordan...
Donald Zinser
Oct 24, 2018
Donald Timothy Zinser, 68, passed away on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, after a brief illness. Tim is survived by his two children, daughter, Kimberly Andrews (Alan) and son, Justin Zinser; brother, Charles Zinser (Andrea) of Plattsburgh, NY; half-sister Victoria, Phoenix AZ; grandchildren, Cassidy and Brody; nephews Allen and Brandon; nieces Krista and Victoria; grandnieces and nephews Tommy, Matthew, Grace...
Christopher Ashley Eno
Oct 23, 2018
Christopher Ashley Eno passed away on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 in Graham, North Carolina. He was born on April 18, 1973 in Plainview, New York to Jean and Frederic Eno II. He was a 1991 graduate from Bayport-Blue Point High School. Christopher married Heather Godley on September 21, 2002 in Greenville, North Carolina. He is survived by his beloved...
George Howard Richman
Oct 22, 2018
George Howard Richman Sr. was born on July 25th, 1918 in Milford, Michigan to Fred and Bertha Richman. He grew up in Milford, Michigan with his family (7 siblings, mother, and father) where his family was one of the founders. In 2000, George moved to North Carolina. George loved sweets and his puzzles. In July he celebrated his 100th...
Hannah Sutton
Oct 22, 2018
Hannah Green Sutton, nee Oppenheimer, died on October 22, 2018 at the age of 83, after a battle with cancer. Hannah was born in Dusseldorf, Germany on October 14, 1935. Following Kristallnacht in 1938, she and her parents fled to Holland, England, Wales, and finally the United States. She spent her childhood in Chicago and Pittsburgh, where she attended...
Harold Brokaw
Oct 22, 2018
Pretty Much the life and times of Hal Brokaw Harold (Hal) Lee Brokaw was born in Evansville, Indiana on December 26, 1925 to Floyd Embre and Lillian Vivian Painter Brokaw. He grew up in Evansville along with his younger brother Floyd Elliot. Young Floyd died at the age of nine when Hal was 12 years old. Hal attended Stanley...
Mary Henderson
Oct 18, 2018
Mary Edna Chadwick Henderson, of Chapel Hill, NC, passed surrounded by her family on October 18th, 2018 at the age of 82 years old. Mary Edna is survived by her 3 daughters, Genny Wrenn and husband, Jimmy, of Hillsborough, Lisa Floyd and husband, Tim, of Raleigh, and Teresa Lindsay and husband, Dwayne, of Salisbury, NC, and daughter-in-law, Sarah, of...
Sidney Smith, Jr.
Oct 17, 2018
Chapel Hill - Sidney Rufus Smith, Jr., aged 87, passed away on October 17, 2018. Sidney was born on September 18th, 1931, in Greensboro, NC, to the late Page Johnston and Sidney Smith, Sr. He graduated from Greensboro High School (now Grimsley) in 1949. He attended Duke University, and in 1953 received a degree in business administration, after years...
Mary Johnson
Oct 15, 2018
Mary Evelyn Watkins Johnson died Monday, October 15th, 2018 at Carol Woods retirement community, Chapel Hill, NC. She was born on June 9th, 1928 in Ann Arbor Michigan, daughter of Leonard Lionel Watkins and Katherine Smith Watkins. She married Dr. Wendell Johnson, mathematics professor, on December 28th, 1948. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology at Phillips University in...
