Obituaries

DURHAM ??? Peggy Hilliard, age 75, died in Durham at Carolina Point, Pruitt Healthcare where she was under Hospice care on 12/30/2019. She was born on 10/5/1944 to the late Homer aneelizabeth Davis. She graduated as an LPN from the Watts School of Nursing in 1963.?? She then worked as an LPN and in EKG at Watts and later at...

DURHAM ??? Mark Elias Fogel, age 77, died at UNC Hospital oneecember 8, 2019. He was born on neember 28, 1942. Mark was born and raised in Bronx, NY and completed his undergraduate degree at The Cooper Union. He received both his Master???s and Law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. He practiced Environmental Law in Raleigh. He had a love for...

On June 21, 2019, Martha Frances Wade Fields Morton, 93, of Oxford, North Carolina, went to be with her Lord Jesus Christ. Frances was born in Wayne County, the third child and first daughter of Walter Ray and Pearl Atkins Wade. She ???came up hard???; as a child of Depression era sharecroppers, she worked in the fields from an early...

Johnsoneelos O'Daniel borneebruary 22nd, 1931 to Blanee and Johnson O'Daniel in Chatham County, North Carolina passed away on Friday, neember 8th, 2013. Delos was raised on his family farm in Chatham County with his sisters Hazel and Marjorie and his brother Eddie. Delos is survived by his loving wife, Jean Partin O'Daniel, his best friend and supporter for 58 years....

Our dear sweet mother, Doris Thomasson Brown, age 91, of Durham NC, passed away Thursday evening, the 6th of February, while holding her hand. She blessed us so very much throughout our lives. We are so very grateful that she is now in the hands of our Lord. She was an angel who blessed so many people with her genee...

Jon Charles Miller died quietly of leukemia at his Durham home on Sunday. He was seventy-three. A scholar and a teacher, he was a man of books, language, poetry, and music. He was genee, patient, and kind. His courtesy was old-fashioned and came to him easily. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller of Durham, Jon was...

Richard Ihly ,78,died Sunday Feb 8 in Pittsboro NC. He was a lifelong lover and respecter of the natural world and was happiest when around water. He shared his love of nature with his family and friends and taught many children to fish and water ski. He led by example and was a role model for those who knew him....

Lyna Jewell Rogers, a long-time resident of Carrboro, North Carolina, died oneebruary 27, 2019, at the UNC Hospice Home in Pittsboro, NC after a brief illness. Lyna was born on neember 29, 1941, in Hartsville, South Carolina, the daughter of William Ray and Mary Jewell Hartsell Rogers. After spending her childhood years in Gastonia, NC, the family moved to Fayetteville,...

Nancy Lee Foster, of Fearrington Village, was born in Syracuse, NY and raised in Minoa, NY. She was predeceased by husband Thomas Allen Foster Tom, parents Dorothy and Lee Rising, and sister Linda Sperber. In 1959 she and Tom married and raised a family of three childreneeric and wife, Jackie of Saranac Lake, NY; Lee Anne Lloyd of Sanford, NC;...

Olga Boubouras Thuer passed away peacefully on neember 26, 2018 in Chapel Hill, NC following a brief hospitalization for progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).?? Beloved wife of the late Carl Thuer, married for 53 years; daughter of the late Mary and Matthew Boubouras, and sister of the late Renee Mitchell.?? Loving mother of Diane Winans; grandmother of Maxwell, Theodore...

Michele Marie (LaRocca) Nelsoneent to her eternal rest oneec. 8, 2019 in Durham, NC with her husband & children at her side. Michele was born to Patricia (Maher) Filice & Tito Samuel LaRocca oneec. 9, 1957 in San Jose, CA. She attended St. Lucy???s Elementary & graduated from Archbishop Mitty HS ???76. Michele attended San Jose State & Sacramento State...

Rose Truscio (96) passed away peacefully on June 21,2019 in Cary, NC.?? She was born in Connecticut to Santina and Louis Diemente on May 5, 1923 and had a happy childhood there surrounded by a large extended family. She was devoted to her husband William Truscio for 66 years until he passed away on October 2, 2012. They divided their...

LaJeanne ???Jeanne??? Frame, 67, of Sanford, NC, died on Friday, August 4, at the Hock Family Pavilion in Durham. She was born oneebruary 18, 1950, to Ruth and Irvin Chatham in High Point, NC. Jeanne was a teneed veteran RN-3 at Duke Regional Hospital on the cardiac unit. She was very passionee about her work, and loved helping others ineeed....

Kathryn Mary Manginelli (nee Curtis), age 61, of Durham passed away on neember 11th, 2018 under hospice care following a two-and-a-half-year battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig???s disease). Formerly from Long Island, NY, and Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, Kathryn was a graduate of the class of 1975 at Maria Regina H.S. in Uniondale, NY. In 2011 she moved to Durham, NC, and...

Nicholas Michael Kredich died peacefully at his home on neember 7, 2017 after a year-long illness. He was born in Chicago, IL oneept. 23, 1935 and was raised by his parents, Nicholas and Olga Kredich, in Elmwood Park, IL. He is survived by his daughter Kathryn Rohlf and husband John of Truckee, CA, and their children Jackson, Lucas and Laney;...

Dale Clark Smith, died Thursday at her home. She was a native of Vance Co. and was the daughter of the late Harry Hunter and Joyce Forsythe Clark. Dale was a house wife and a member of Oxford Baptist Church. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday June 14, 2014 at 11:00 AM in Oxford Baptist Church by Rev. Chris Aho....

Paul H. Smith, 68, formerly of Oxford, NC, went to his eternal home oneednesday, April 15, 2015. He is preceded ineeath by his loving wife of almost 30 years, Faye Burwell Smith and a granddaughter, Leah Avery Porterfield. Mr. Smith is survived by three daughters, Paula S. Sumner of Henderson, NC, Barbara S. McMillian of Spring Lake, NC, and Kathy...

Lessie Barbour Brothers passed away from complications of Alzheimers on October 13 at Brookdale Chapel Hill. Born in Smithfield, NC to Callie Moore Barbour and John David Barbour, Lessie was the youngest of three. She is predeceased by her two brothers Curtis Barbour and John David Barbour Jr. Lessie was also predeceased by Joseph Daniel (JD) Brothers, her loving husband...

Mr. Edwin Ray Snuggs, Jr., 85, died oneeptember 27, 2015.?? He was born in Albemarle, NC, oneecember 4, 1929 to the late Edwin Ray Snuggs, Sr. and Bonee Lee Barnes.?? He graduated from Albemarle City Schools and received his undergraduate and professional training at Weber College, Ogden, Utah, the US Army Engineering School at Fort Belvoir, VA and DeVry Uneersity...