Obituaries

Faye Crabtree Murphy

Faye Crabtree Murphy

Faye Crabtree Murphy, 47, resident of 8307 Staggville Road, died Saturday afternoon in Durham Regional Hospital. Faye was born in Durham and was the daughter of the late Earsey Weldon Crabtree and Heleneeneen Crabtree. She was a member of Mount Bethel Uneed Methodist Church.Surviving are her husband, Eddie Murphy of Bahama; her brother, Ray Crabtree of Bahama and two nephews,...

Virginia Guill Nichols

Virginia Guill Nichols

Mrs. Virginia Guill Nichols, 93, resident of 2828 Nation Avenue, died Friday morning in Duke Medical Center. Mrs. Nichols was born in Halifax County, VA and was the daughter of the late Walter Lee Guill and Pearl Meeler Guill. She moved to Durham in 1930 from South Boston, VA. Mrs. Nichols was employed with the Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company...

Pedro V. Mendoza

Pedro V. Mendoza

DURHAM: Pedro V. Mendoza, 89, died at home Wednesday after a brief illness. A native of the Philippines, he and his wife, the late Florencia Mendoza, came to the U.S., in 1977 to be close to family. Mr. Mendoza had worked in sales with the Jai Alai Corp. He lived through the joys and accomplishments of his children and grandchildren,...

Beatrice Womble Moore Miles

Beatrice Womble Moore Miles

Beatrice Womble Moore Miles, 84, of Morehead City Tuesday at Century Care of Crystal Coast. Mrs. Miles was borneebruary 15, 1921 in Chapel Hill to the late Walker Womble and the late Alice Mecham Womble. Surviving are one daughter, Betsy M. DeCampo and husband Joseph of Morehead City; one soneeugene

Sandra Faye Allen Hill

Sandra Faye Allen Hill

Sandra Faye Allen Hill, 70, resident of 5712 Wake Forest Road, died Thursday evening. Born in Durham, she was the daughter of the late John aneerah Copley Allen. She retired as a CPA for an electrical contractor. Surviving are her son, John David Hill and wife, Sherri of Hillsborough, three grandchildren, John David Hill, Jr., Jason Alexander Sherron and Jacob...

Bruce Weatherly

Bruce Weatherly

Edmond Bruce Weatherly, 77, resident of 3509 Wake Forest Hwy. died Tuesday afternoon in the Hospice at the Meadowlands. He was a native of Durham and was the son of the late Albert Thomas Weatherly and Lyda Nichols Weatherly. He was a graduate of Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Weatherly retired after 31 years with the Liggett...

Marie Gardner Munley

Marie Gardner Munley

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....

John Billy West

John Billy West

John Billy West, 84, passed away on Friday, neember 10, 2017, at Duke Hospice-Hock Family Pavilion, in Durham, NC, after a brief illness. He was born in Stovall, NC on January 5, 1933, to Jonah Buck West and Anee Belle Smith West. He was the oldest of five children, all of whom preceded him ineeath. He was educated in Granville...

Maybelle Hall Husketh

Maybelle Hall Husketh

Mrs. Maybelle Hall Husketh, age 99, of 3849 Shoccoree Drive died Monday at home. Maybelle was born and raised in Durham and graduated from Braggtown High School and Western Carolina Teachers College. A devoted Christian, Maybelle was a member of Aneer Avenue Baptist Church for 87 years. She was a member of the Estheren Sunday School Class, Leah Royal Circle...

Polly N. Kearney

Polly N. Kearney

Oneeptember 10, 2007 Polly N. Kearney died peacefully at age 87. Polly was a nurse in the Baltimore area for over 43 years. She spent her retirement traveling, reading and taking care of her growing family. Her last five active years were in Rose Manor Assisted Living in Ellicott City. She is survived by her loving son Thomas Tony W...

Dorothy Elizabeth Heinecke

Dorothy Elizabeth Heinecke

Dorothy Elizabeth Heinecke, 89, died on Sunday, neember 29, 2009. Dorothy was born in Quincy, IL to Myrtle and Ralph Rapp on June 12, 1920. Dorothy is survived by her daughters Patricia Bodoh and her husbaneed of Fearrington Post, NC; Susan Dirks and her husband Richard of Cincinnati, OH; five grandchildren aneeight great-grandchildren. She is predeceased by her husband Irwineeinecke...

Joseph Harmon Duncan

Joseph Harmon Duncan

Joseph Harmon Duncan, age 69, died oneeptember 22, 2019. He was born on May 25, 1950 to Harmon Lazone Duncan and Virginia Dooley Duncan. ??Joe grew up in Durham, NC. In his youth he loved spending time with his father and siblings at his family???s river house on the Pamlico River where he developed a lifelong love of fishing and...

Ann Tilden Pope

Ann Tilden Pope

DURHAM - Ann Tilden Pope, 93, died at her home in Croasdaile Village, Durham, NC on neember 30, 2017. She was born neember 23, 1924 in Chicago, Il. to the late Mason Osgood Tilden and Anna Mary Meyer Tilden. Ann graduated from Wilson College and later married Robert Gilmer Pope on October 23, 1948. She raised two sons in Haddoneeld,...

Adele S. Wehr

Adele S. Wehr

Adele S. Wehr, age 84, of Hillsborough, NC died Saturday, December 10, at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. A resident of Hillsborough for the past six years, Mrs. Wehr was born in Southampton, NY to the late Aneew aneedna Seneenski. She worked for Macy

Romie William Whitt

Romie William Whitt

Romie William Whitt, 78 of 1102 Enon Road, Oxford, died Sunday, neember 16, 2008. He was a native of Person Co. and a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Private services were held on Monday, neember 17, 2008 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church by the Rev. Keith Williams. Surviving is his wife, Edith H. Whitt of Oxford; a son, Ronee...

Dorothy G. Wilkinson

Dorothy G. Wilkinson

Oxford, N.C. Dorothy Gupton Wilkinson, 96, a resident of Granville County, passed away at Duke Uneersity Medical Center on neember 2, 2018. Dorothy was the daughter of the late Theodore R. Gupton and Olive Cheaves Gupton.?? She was born in Franklin County on August 6, 1922. Dorothy obtained a master???s degree from East Carolina Uneersity. She married G.P. Wilkinson, Jr....

Ted L. Isaac

Ted L. Isaac

Durham -Ted L. Isaac, 78, was born on March 27, 1932 in Patterson, North Carolina, and made his transition home to God and his wife and soul-mate Mary Isaac oneebruary 2, 2011. Ted was also preceded ineeath by his father Dewey Isaac, mother Julia Isaac, brothers, Ralph Quinlan and Lloyd Isaac, sisters, Vera Mitchum and Violet Winston. He is survived...