Obituaries

Mike Cavender, formerly of Highlands, NC, died on June 22 in Durham. The cause was sarcoma cancer. He is survived by his wife of 28 years Paulette Webb; two-step daughters, Charlotte Schwartz of Atlanta and Vanessa Tsumura of Milwaukee; their husbands Paul and Kenji; grandchildren Carl, Violet, Anri and Isla; his sister Katie Baer of Pittsboro, NC, and many nieces...

Robert Harrison Booth passed away oneecember 1, 2014, at Hillcrest Convalescent Center, after a long period of declining health. He was 82 years old. Mr. Booth was born on October 30, 1932 in Wichita, KS. The son of the late Arch N. Booth and the late Wilma Harrison Booth, he spent his early years in Kansas before moving with his...

Bernard Bender was born 10-26-1925 in Brooklyneew York to orthodox??Jewish Eastern European immigrant parents, Robert Bender and Celia??Borodineender. He had one older sister, Lorraine Bruder Roberts, who??predeceased him by one year. He grew up in a Brooklyn house subdivided??into apartments where all his neighbors in the building were his mother???s??sisters and their families, so his first cousins were like siblings...

Dona B. Henney King, age 86, of Pittsboro, NC died Tuesday, neember 25, 2014. Dona is survived by her son, Matthew Eloneenney of Charlotte, NC. A visitation will be held Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 12-2 pm at Hall-Wynne Funeral Home Griffin Chapel, 396 West St., Pittsboro, NC 27312. Hall-Wynne Griffin Chapel is serving the King family. Please place online...

DURHAM, NC: Robert Ehrlich Eiland, 71, died Thursday after a long illness. Bob was born neember 27, 1943 in Torrance, CA to the late Ehrlich and Marilee Eiland. He spent a portion of his childhood in Badin, NC prior to the family moving to Lower Burrell. Bob graduated from New Kensington High School in 1962, receiving his B.S. in business...

DURHAM -Anita ???Nita??? Evelyn Boreneein (nee Cohen), aged 84 died at her residents at Seasons At Southpoint oneebruary 16, 2015. Nita was born oneeptember 11, 1930 to the late Emanuel and Ann Cohen. She grew up in Bristol, Virginia. Nita lived in Baltimore, Maryland, Aventura, Florida before recently moving to Durham, North Carolina. Nita is survived by her husband of...

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...

James Edward Daniels, 87, formerly of Goldston, died Tuesday 4/30/13 at his home. Son of James Albert Daniels and Keron Woolard Daniels, he was born oneebruary 15, 1926 in Washington, NC. He is survived by his daughter Anna Linda Daniels Nicholson, her husband Michael Nicholson and their three children Jon, Malcolm, and Hannah; and by son Taumi Daniels and his...

Dr. Patricia Nichols Page, age 89, died July 27 at Croasdaile Village, Durham, NC. She was born neember 11, 1923 at home ineelrose, MA. She graduated in 1941 from Melrose High School and went to Smith College in an accelerated program due to the war, graduating in 1944. She then obtained her first Master's Degree in 1946 in Christian Education...

Billie Nagy, 87, and Joy Nagy, 83, of Bullock, NC died tragically Friday, neember 16, 2018. Born August 16, 1931, in Prudence, WV, Billie was the son of the late Sam aneemma Nagy.?? Born October 29, 1935, in Buckhannon, WV, Joy was the daughter of the late Othel and Alda Welch. Billie and Joy were married on April 3, 1960...

Mrs. Leitha H. Glosson April 10, 1942 ??? December 22, 2014 Pittsboro Born April 10, 1942, in Bynum, NC to the late Roy Howard and Peola Tyson Howard, Leitha Howard Glosson passed away at The Laurels of Chatham oneecember 22, 2014. She was married 54 years to Leon Glosson until his passing July of 2012. Leitha was a hard worker...

Maria (Mary) Burak Szadek, 93, went home to be with her Heavenly Father on neember 21, 2019. She was born in Buraczki, Poland oneecember 10, 1925. After WWII ineecember 1951, Mary and her late husband, Joseph John Szadek, came to the Uneed States. On June 6, 1958, she became a citizen of the Uneed States of America in the US...

Stovall Amos Buford Rutledge, age 87, died peacefully surrounded by family oneecember 14, 2018. He was the son of the late Richard Anderson Rutledge and Ola Jane Burns Rutledge of Virginia.?? He was born ineecklenburg County on June 10, 1931 and resided in Granville County for many prosperous years with his late wife, Edith Rebecca Currin Rutledge. Amos was an...

Louis Berini, loving son, husband and father, age 98, passed away on July 17 at the Croasdaile Pavilion. He was borneebruary 5, 1914 in Thayer, West Virginia to the late Tony Berini and Carolina Brusa Berini. The family moved to Durham in 1929 when his father brought his skills as a stone mason to the construction of the new campus...

DURHAM-Nicholas Johneeluso, 81, of Durham, died April 18 after a long and courageously fought illness. Nick will be missed by his loving wife of sixty years, Joan Platt Peluso, his children John Julie, Marjorie, Marie, Michael Mj, Nora and Nicholas Jr., his brother Dominic and the rest of his family ineew York, and dear friends and honorable family members Chip...

Kathleen Godwin Smith passed away peacefully at her home oneebruary 14, 2015. She was born March 8, 1919, in Durham, the third of 6 children of Gus Travis Godwin and Lelia Lowe Godwin from the Lowe???s Grove community in southern Durham, NC. Kay grew up in a lively household, was a member of Lowe???s Grove Baptist church, graduated from Lowe???s...

Jackie Strange, 87, of Chapel Hill, passed away on Sunday, February 1. She was borneebruary 3, 1927 in Stuckey, Georgia to Charlie aneetta Mae Anderson and predeceased by her brothers Charles and Carlton Anderson. She received a BS in Education from Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Southern Uneersity) and, after three years teaching high school and coaching the women's basketball...

Oxford: Wilbur Lee Owen, 73, of Oxford, passed away at Duke Medical Center oneecember 28, 2015. He was preceded ineeath by his parents, John Early ???Jack??? Owen and Lelia Riggan Owen, his brothers Richard, Bernard, Erby Gene, and sisters Sarah Puckett, Susie Blalock, Ethel Lumpkin, and Jerlean Woody. He is survived by his sons Kenneth ???Ken??? Wilbur Owen (wife, Valerie)...

On Monday August 19, 2019, Karen Sue Pappas, loving wife, passed away at age 72. Karen Sue Pappas was born oneebruary 20, 1947 in Farmington, Missouri to Viola and Lindell McDaniel. She married Art Pappas on May 5, 1982. She helped to raise two children, Kim and Adam, and three grandchildren, Jackson, Bryson, aneemerson. Karen and Art became residents of...

Doris Henderson Evans, 92, died on Thursday, neember 22, 2012. Doris was born in Franklin County, NC to the late Callie and Pauline Morton Evans on January 24, 1920. Doris was a loving friend to anyone that she had the opportunity to come in contact with. She was a long time member of Union View Church where she loved spending...