Obituaries
Leonard Richey Cooper
Mar 18, 2013
Mr. Leonard Richey Cooper, 70, of LC Farm Road, Pittsboro, died March 18, 2013 at UNC Hospitals. Mr. Cooper was born March 5, 1943 ineeKalb County, Alabama, one of twelve children of Dolphy and Sindy Ledford Cooper. He enjoyed golf, bowling and fishing; watching westerns and wrestling oneelevision, and riding his mower and his tractor. Mr. Cooper was an expert...
O. Michael Colvin
Mar 16, 2013
O. Michael Colvin died peacefully Saturday evening, March 16, 2013. Mike was born in Princeton, Indiana, on June 15, l936, the only child of Jack aneevelyn Colvin. Mike graduated from Princeton High School in 1954, Indiana Uneersity in 1957 and Washington Uneersity School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1961. He did his internship and residency in internal medicine at...
Mary Ann Ivey
Mar 16, 2013
Mary Ann Ivey died peacefully March 16th, 2013 at her daughter's home in Durham, N.C. surrounded by her family. Mary Ann was the first child of Jesse Jordan and Georgia Coggins Beale. She was born oneebruary 14th, 1929 in Milwaukee, N.C. and was forever her father's Valentine. She was preceded ineeath by her parents, brother J.J., and her husband Bill....
Catherine Strickland Adcock
Mar 15, 2013
OXFORD: Catherine Strickland Adcock , died March 15, 2013 at her home. She was a native of Vance Co. and was the daughter of the late William Nathaniel and Maggie Belle Grissom Strickland. she was preceded ineeath by her husband David L. Adcock, Sr. She was a member of the Oxford Uneed Methodist Church , member of the UMW and...
Julius Samuel Adcock, Jr.
Mar 15, 2013
Julius Samuel Adcock Jr., 83, of Durham died Friday, March 15, 2013. A native of Durham he was borneecember 19, 1929 to the late Julius Samuel Adcock Sr. and Ruby Godwin Adcock. Mr. Adcock was educated in the Durham City Schools and was a graduate of the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a veteraneerving in the...
Peter Leslie Noerr
Mar 15, 2013
Peter Leslie Noerr died on Friday March 15, 2013. Peter was born ineeicester, England, on March 31, 1946 to Leonard and Doris Noerr. Peter was raised mostly in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his family moved in 1951, and attended school at Kingswood and the Uneersity of Witswatersrand, where he earned a degree in physics. After returning to London, Peter was...
Frederick Spencer Wiggins
Mar 12, 2013
Fredrick Spencer Wiggins, 66, died at Durham Regional Hospital on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A native of Durham, NC, Freddie was born August 9th, 1946, son of the late Joseph Spencer Wiggins & Thelma Doby Wiggins. As a boy, he achieved Eagle Scout status. Those skills would greatly assist him as he honorably served as an aircraft mechanic in the...
James Jim M. Schmidt
Mar 12, 2013
DURHAM-James Michael "Jim" Schmidt, 69, died Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at his residence. Born oneept. 24, 1943 in Louisville, KY he was the son of the late Albert Michael Schmidt and Helen Catherine Dieckman. Jim graduated from Trinity High School in Louisville, KY in 1961, and Bellarmine Uneersity, also in Louisville, in 1972. He continued his education at Duke Uneersity...
George Ivey Day
Mar 11, 2013
Mr. George Ivey Day, age 66 of Oxford, died Monday, March 11, 2013 at Brantwood Nursing Center. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late George Robert Day and Janie Bowling Day. George Ivey was a member of Salem Uneed Methodist Church, a retired veteran of the U.S. Army, the National Guard and DBW Construction Co....
Dorothy Nicholson Rogers
Mar 11, 2013
OXFORD: Dorothy Nicholson Rogers, of Oxford, died Monday, March 11, 2013 in Wake County. A native of Newport News, VA, she was the daughter of the late G. C. Nicholson and Zora Allen Nicholson and widow of Eugene Rogers. Dorothy was a member of Oxford Uneed Methodist Church where she served as secretary. She was also a member of the...
Essie Lee Edwards
Mar 7, 2013
Essie Lee Edwards, 82, died Thursday, March 7, 2013 at her residence. Essie is survived by her daughter, Danita Edwards of Durham; her grandson, Reggie Edwards and his fianeeacute; Kristin Vaughan of Durham; her granddaughter, Phylice Edwards of Durham; and her great grandson, Harlan Cortez Vaughan-Edwards; as well as a host of family and friends. A Mass of Christian Burial...
John Michael Yates
Mar 6, 2013
Dr. John Michael Yates, age 76, of Chapel Hill, NC, formerly of Shelby, NC, died on March 6, 2013. Born oneecember 20, 1936, in Malton, Yorkshire, England, he was the son of the late John and Joaneeslie Yates. He is survived by his loving wife of forty eight years, Eilean Donan Yates, and daughters and their spouses, Julie Yates and...
Ronee Lee Mason
Mar 6, 2013
Mr. Ronee Lee Mason, 56, of Apex, died March 6, 2013 in his home as his family surrounded him in prayer. Ronee was born in Orange County on July 9, 1956, the son of Brodie Lee Mason, Jr. aneelizabeth "Lib" McCoy Mason. He was a faithful Christian man, and attended New Hope Church as long as his health permitted. Ronee...
Waverly Hobgood Barnes
Mar 4, 2013
OXFORD: Waverly Hobgood Barnes, Sr. died March 4, 2013 at Duke Medical Center. He was a native of Granville Co. and was the son of the late George Robert and Mamie Hobgood Barnes. Waverly was a retired farmer and dairy operator, and former employee of Hilltop Lumber Company. He was a member of Tabbs Creek Baptist Church, former deacon and...
Kathleen "Kathy" Munson
Mar 2, 2013
Kathleen "Kathy" Munson, 64, died on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Kathy was born in Camp LeJeune, NC to John Duane and Agnes Boyle Case on neember 17, 1948. Kathy had an abiding interest in astrology, a love of home and office organization, and an eneess generosity of spirit. She was known for her intense, intimate conversations aimed at making a...
Edna Dollar Wood
Mar 1, 2013
Edna Dollar Wood, 86, died on Friday, March 01, 2013. Edna was born in Wake County, NC to the late Ruby Dollar Whitaker West and Junius C. Dollar on January 17, 1927. Mrs. Wood had been a Durham resident for most of her life. She was a graduate of Durham High Class of 1945, member of Aldersgate Uneed Methodist Church,...
Joseph Walker Garrard
Feb 28, 2013
Joseph Walker Garrard II, 97, died at 1:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at his home. Mr. Garrard was born in Durham County oneebruary 11, 1916, a son of Isaac Marion Garrard and Lonie Grey Sanford. He was preceded ineeath by his wife, Minee Boddie Green, his son, Isaac Marion Garrard, II, his sister, Lucille G. Dunnagan, his two...
Rev. David Q. Garrison
Feb 24, 2013
Rev. David Q. Garrison, 74, of Durham, died peacefully on Monday, February 24th 2013, surrounded by his family. A native of the Steele Creek community near Charlotte, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Salutatorian of the 1961 class of the Uneersity of North Carolina, where he was also President of the Westmineer Fellowship. While attending graduate school for mathematics at...
Ana Maria Kennedy
Feb 23, 2013
DURHAM-Ana Maria Kennedy, 61, of Durham died Saturday, February 23, 2013 at home. Ana was the daughter of the late Antonio Beamud and Anita Piera Beamud. Born in Queens, New York, she earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Spanish from the State Uneersity of New York at Albany and a Ph.D. in Golden Age Literature from Duke Uneersity. She taught...
William Obie Harmon
Feb 17, 2013
Mr. William Obie Harmon, 85, of Old Graham Road, Pittsboro, died February 17, 2013 at UNC Hospitals following a period of declining health. Born in Pittsboro oneeptember 21, 1927, Obie was the son of James Wesley Harmon and Dollie Battle Lilly Harmon. Obie served in the US Army in Korea; and, worked as a foreman at Kayser-Roth hosiery at the...
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