Obituaries

" Aspire to inspire before you expire " Dr. Robert "Bob" Kusy of Chapel Hill passed away on Ash Wednesday after a four and a half year battle with a brain tumor. He is survived by his wife, his daughter and family, his son and family, his parents, his brother and family, brother in law and family, and many aunts,...

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Betty Lou Ammons Council, age 75, died Monday, neember 5, 2007, at Duke Medical Center following a lengthy illness. Betty Lou was born in Durham to the late Clarence L. aneelsie E. Jenkins Ammons oneeptember 15, 1932. A long-time member of Carr Uneed Methodist Church and the Nell-Morris Sunday School Class, Betty Lou retired from Duke Medical Center after 37...

Linda Ann Triezenberg Postema, 59, died Tuesday at home following a two and a half year battle with lung cancer. A native of Evergreen Park, IL, Linda was a 1966 graduate of Chicago Christian High School in Palos Heights, IL. She received the Bachelor's degree in elementary education from Calvin College in 1970. While in college, Linda taught in the...

Jerry Wayne Quinn, 61, a resident of Chatham County, died July 31 at his home on Crawford Dairy Road after struggling valiantly against cancer. He was born ineensacola, FL and was raised in Durham NC. He served in the US Army in Vietnam and ineermany. Jerry was employed at the UNC in Chapel Hill, first as a laboratory animal assistant,...

Dr William (Bill) V. Lorimer, Jr, a much-loved husband, father, and physician to the Durham community, left this world on Thursday afternoon at home in Cary, North Carolina. He was 71. Bill???s death came after a four-month battle with paneeatic cancer. The sun shone brightly as he crossed into heaven. He leaves behind his wife of 46 years Marcia Sciretta...

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Linda Peabody Reylek, 53, a resident of 4121 Deepwood Circle, passed away unexpectedly on the morning of Monday, August 20th. Born ineew York City, she is the daughter of Frederick I. and Doris J. Peabody. She is a graduate of Concordia College, Bronxville, NY. Linda has been an educator ineew York and North Carolina for over 20 years, was a...

Thomas Owen Talton, age 90, died Wednesday morning in the Durham Veterans Hospital. Mr. Talton was born in Johnston County and was the son of the late Thomas Evans Talton and Swannanoa O'Neal Talton. He was a graduate of Garner High School. He served his country during WWII in the U.S. Coast Guard. He was well known as the owner,...

Kent A. Otto, 64, died Saturday at home following a year-long illness. He was borneebruary 4, 1944 in St. Louis. Kent was a graduate of Indiana Uneersity, where he majored in music. He received the Masters degree in music from Oklahoma Uneersity. Kent spent a 35 year career as music director at St. Philip's Episcopal Church. While music was his...

Durham- Merle JACK Hammersley was born oneebruary 7, 1923 in Dayton, Ohio.?? He was the son of the late George aneelnora Hammersley.?? He died at the VA in Durham on June 6 after a long declining illness. He is survived by his loving daughter Jacqueline Hammersley; his grandson Logan Hammersley. He was preceded ineeath by his wife Sarah Pendergraft Hammersley...

Burtoneenry Gerritsen, Sr, 92, died on Thursday, neember 24, 2011. Burton was born ineergen, NJ to Henry Scota and Hester Breeneerritsen on April 20, 1919. Burt enlisted in the Army on July 7, 1941 and served during WWII. While stationed in Hawaii he met and married there the love of his life Norma Elizabeth Thomas. Upon discharge he completed his...

Nicholas John Pantazis, age 81 and resident of 4426 Sunny Court, died Sunday morning at Duke Hospital. Nick was born in Alexandria, Egypt and was the son of the late John Nicholas and Helen N. Pantazis. He served in World War II with the British Army in the Royal Signal Corps. He retired from the Carolina Inn at Chapel Hill....

Odie Hall Jones died Monday morning at Hospice of the Meadowlands. A Durham native, Odie recently turned 87 on April 16 of this year. She was the daughter of the late Ezra Thomas and Odie Vance Partin Hall. Odie attended Bethel Christianeenter.Surviving are her son, Randy H. Jones and wife, Pana, of Durham; her daughter, Diane J. Swain and husband,...

Martha Hebbert Wilsoneecently celebrated her 99th birthday by blowing out all the canees in one breath. She believes in doing things right the first time. Mrs. Wilson was born in Little Rock, AK on 21 July 1908; grew up in Nutley, NJ, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse Uneersity in 1930. She moved with her late husband, Charles Thomas...

William J. Bill Gillis passed away at Duke Uneersity Hospital on Saturday, March 24, after a valiant struggle against cancer. Bill was borneecember 20, 1952, ineewark, New Jersey and grew up in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. He was a graduate of Pequannock Township High School and attended Uppsala College in East Orange, New Jersey and Guilford College in Greensboro, North...

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John Edmond Goswick, age 61, died Tuesday evening at his brothe