Obituaries

Mildred Hicks Mokus Eubanks, age 83, died Saturday evening at Durham Regional Hospital. Mrs. Eubanks was a Durham native who worked at Erwin Cotton Mills and was later employed by Winn Dixie where she retired in 1985. She regularly attended Wesleyan Church in Roxboro for a number of years. A genee and kind lady, Mrs. Eubanks was a skilled seamstress...

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Esther Laviner Ace, age 73, resident of 4615 Leesville Rd. died Tuesday at Hillcrest Convalescent Center. She was borneecember 14th, 1932 in Wagram, NC and was the daughter of the late Lonee E. and Minee Ray Laviner. She was a graduate of Highsmith Nursing School in Fayetteville, NC and Duke Uneersity School of Nursing. She also attended Flora McDonald College....

Mrs. Bobbie Dupree Smith, 82, died Saturday morning at her daughte

Oxford: Willie M Pruitt, 86, of Southern Pines died neember 7th 2009. A native of Vance County and a former resident of Oxford. A retired textile employee. Funeral Services will be conducted 2:00 PM Friday from Gentry-neell & Vaughan Chapel by the Rev. Bill Wes Garner. Burial will follow ineeadowview Memorial Park. Family will receive visitors from 1:00 PM to...

SNELLVILLE GA.: Marion Allen Haskins Marion Allen Haskins, a native of Granville County, N.C., who for many years was an elementary school teacher in the Oxford area, died June 25 after suffering for more than a decade with Alzheimer's disease. She was 91 years old. Mrs. Haskins was born in Creedmoor and lived in Oxford for most of her adult...

Gladys Cates Roberts, 92, former resident of 3115 Rosebriar Drive, died Saturday morning in Hillsbrough. Born in Orange County, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson Cates and Ina Montgomery Cates. Mrs. Roberts attended the Durham City Schools and had lived in Durham most of her life. She was employed for 35 years with Erwin Cotton mills and...

OXFORD: Archie Lee Brogden, Jr. age 58, a native of Granville Co. and the son of the late Archie Lee and Lillian McDonald Brogden died Tuesday night in the VA Hospital in Durham. He was a former Policeman and a veteran of the US Army. He was a member of the Stem Uneed Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conducted...

OXFORD: Mrs. Mary Leigh Newby Hobgood age 78 died Thursday, neember 6, 2008. Mrs. Hobgood was a native of Granville Co. and the daughter of the late Charlie G. and Lelia Faucette Newby. Mrs. Hobgood was a member of Dexter Baptist Church and was retired from Burlington Mills, Oxford Plant. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P. M. Sunday,...

Janee Little Harvey passed away peacefully oneeptember 19, 2008. She was a dedicated wife of 47 years, mother to three children, and grandmother of six. She was a native of Newton, NC and attended Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone NC, where she met her husband, William J. Harvey, Jr. They married in 1961 and raised three children in Durham,...

Marie Gardner Munley, 95, resident of Carolina House, Durham, NC, died Monday afternoon. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Surviving is her son, William J. Munley, Jr. and his wife, Elaine of Durham, NC; four grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11:00 AM Saturday, March 24, 2007 in St. Matthew Catholic Church. Fr....

DURHAM: After a period of declining health, Mary Jane Wallace Credle, 75, died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Claudia Brueckner. Mary Jane was the youngest daughter of the late Paul Grady Wallace aneelizabeth Rollins Wallace. Born and raised in Durham, Mary Jane grew up oneeeman Street and had many happy memories of what nearby downtown Durham had to...

Peyton Strickland, age 18, died Friday night in Wilmington, North Carolina where he was a college student. He was a warm and generous child and loved by his family and friends. Peyton is survived by his parents, Don and Kathy Strickland of Durham; his sisters Collin and Joslyn Strickland also of Durham; his grandparents Dr. Martin Brooks of Pembroke and...

A celebration of the life of this charter member of the Greatest Generation will be held at Holy Infant Catholic Church in Durham on April 25th at 9:00am.Peter was born during the roaring 20???s in Yonkers, New York to Ann (Siano) and Peter Fornaby.?? The family nee was originally Fornabaio but was changed in an Ellis Island snafu as family...

Sarah Margaret Thompson Poole, borneeptember 10, 1946 in Durham, North Carolina, died suddenly while oneer daily walk, near her home in Laurel Springs, North Carolina with her trusted canee companion Slag. She was the daughter of the late Garland H. Thompson and Martha Frances Blue Thompson. Sarah is survived by longtime companion, Glen Attaway, her daughter, Pamela Poole Porter Bill,...

Danie Lee Marshall Johnson died Thursday evening, neember 6, 2008, at New Haneer Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC. She was 104 years old. Mrs. Johnson was the daughter of the late Elijah D. and Mamie Marshall. While living in Durham she was a member at Calvary Baptist Church for more than fifty years. In 2001, she moved to Sunset...

Virginia Blair Quineevans, 74, of Chapel Hill, NC, died on Saturday, Feburary 4, 2012. She was born in Shreveport, LA on April 22, 1937, the daughter of Mary Virginia Saunders Quinn and Dr. Harold Joseph Quinn. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA and graduated from Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane Uneersity, New Orleans, in 1959. At Randolph-Macon she took...

Naomi Chisenhall Mims, age 88, died Sunday morning at Hillcrest Convalescent Center. She was born ineerson County to the late John Jackson and Della Harris Chisenhall. Naomi moved from Roxboro to Durham in 1938 and sooneegan working at Liggett Myers where she retired after 44 years of employment. Naomi had a strong faith in God and was an active member...