Obituaries

DURHAM, NC - Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English and former dean of the humanities at Duke, died oneednesday. He was 54. Aravamudan, a scholar of 18th-century British and French literature and postcolonial literature, was also a champion of the humanities, committed to nurturing and promoting their role in contemporary society. At Duke, his leadership included serving as director of the...

Durham ??? Shirley M. Kerth, age 87, died at Seasons at Southpoint senior living community on neember 10, 2018. She was born oneeptember 7, 1931 to the late Archie and Ruby McDaniel. Shirley was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She was a graduate of Sea Breeze High School and Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. She served as a...

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...

Mildred Wilder Martin, age 85, died Monday, neember 24, 2014 at Louisburg Nursing Center. She was born in Franklin County on neember 1, 1929 to the late Julian E. and Lillie Stroud Wilder. Mrs. Martin was a member of Perry???s Chapel Baptist Church. She is survived by her three daughters, Kathy Lee Mullard and husband, Fred, of Crystal Lake, IL;...

Alex H. Hancock, 80, died Friday neember 8, 2013 at his home. He was a native of Granville Co. and was the son of the late Franklin Wills Hancock, Jr. and Lucy Landis Hancock. He was preceded ineeath by his wife Tapp Latta Hancock. Alex was a graduate of Oxford High School and Fishburne Military Academy, Waynesboro, Virginia and received...

Oxford NC: Lynwood Bryan Hughes,SR. With his family by his side, our loving husband and daddy, Lynwood Bryan Hughes, Sr. joined the angels on Friday, August 15th, after an extended illness. Lynwood was born July 19, 1931 in Oxford and is survived by his family, who will love and cherish him forever. He was a committed and dedicated servant, having...

Elsie Eileen Baber Nass, age 71, of Pittsboro, NC died Sunday neember 16, 2014. She was born April 19, 1943 ineenver Colorado to the late William Elmer and Leda Rose Baber. Elsie is survived by her husband, James Nass of Pittsboro, NC; her sons, Sean Nass and his wife Heather Novak of Bristow, VA and Brandan Nass and his wife...

On May 25, 2019, I beat cancer. Born on April 9th 1947 to Arthur and Charmaine Ferguson in Cobleskill, NY, I eventually settled in Wilson, NC graduating from Fike High School in 1965. I set off to see the world as a Navy Corpsman for 4 years and as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist for 46 years eventually retiring from UNC...

Pastor Johneenry Covington, age 73, of Pittsboro, NC went home to be with his Savior late Saturday, May 31, 2014. John was born July 11, 1940 in Salisbury NC. He was the pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church for the last five years as well as the Chaplin for the Bynum Ruritan Club. He is preceded ineeath by his parents...

Lavern Griffin Stott, 82, died Saturday, neember 22, 2014. Lavern was born July 29, 1932 in Franklin County to the late H. Clemmon and Athaleah Griffin. She worked for the state of North Carolina with the department of Transportation for more than 30 years, retiring in 1990. Lavern was actively involved in Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Beside her parents, she...

Paul Thomas LeClair, 60, of Durham, N.C. passed away unexpectedly at home oneeptember 2, 2018. He was born August 30, 1958 in Oswego, N.Y. to Leigh and Joan Lacey LeClair. He is survived by his wife Susan Squire LeClair, daughter Leah and son Eric, his father, his step-mother, Priscilla, his brothers, Tim (wife Rhea Anna) and Larry (wife Susan), his...

Lowell Elree Bullock, 90, went on to the Lord Sunday, neember 24, 2013. He was borneecember 12, 1922 to William and Lula Nelson Bullock in Pitt Co. Lowell was an active member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Durham. He was also a former member of the Mason's, Shriner's aneelk's Club in Durham. Lowell worked as a barber, for over...

Essie Mae Boring, 76, died neember 10, 2014 at Uneealth in Durham. She was the daughter of the late John Edgar Swaney and Margaret Dixon Swaney. Essie will be dearly missed by her son, William Chestnut and wife, Dawn, of Hillsborough; her sister, Linda Coggins, of Mebane; her grandson, Sean Chestnut, of Asheville; and granddaughter, Sarah Chestnut, of Charlotte. She...

Kathleen ???Kass??? O???Donnell Shulby Kathleen ???Kass??? Elizabeth O???Donnell Shulby, age 90, passed away Wednesday, April 3rd at Hock Family Pavilion in Durham, NC. Her passing follows that of her beloved husband of 66 years, Edgar Truman ???Bill??? Shulby, by two years. Kass was born in Pittsburgh and raised ineeadon, PA. She graduated from Yeadon High School with a group of...

Katherine Rankineeaver was born August 9, 1922, in Macon, Georgia, the oldest daughter of Myrtle and Goodwin Rankin. Growing up in Macon, she attended Miller High School and Wesleyan College, and married in July 1942 Charles Beaver, who was stationed nearby at Camp Wheeler Army Base. They lived in Little Rock, Arkansas (Camp Robinson), then Tyler, Texas (Camp Fannin), where...

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...

Lois Ann McCaskill, born June 3, 1953, in Milledgeville, Georgia, lost her courageous battle against Mylodysplasia Syndrome on April 7, 2014. She was given the gift of an extra year of life by a selfless donor who provided the new bone marrow that she received last April 25, 2013. The extra year of life allowed her to spend more time...

Daniel Roy Johnson, of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, died in Duke Uneersity Hospital, due to respiratory failure, surrounded by his family oneebruary 24, 2015. He was 67 years old. Dan is survived by his wife, Linda Johnson (Dillman); his children, Jerry Johnson (Amy) of Bradenton, Florida, and Julie Johnson of South Beloit, Illinois; his granddaughters, Jasmine Johnson, Anna Scordato, Claudia Johnson,...

Mr. John Thomas "Pete" Moore, 87, of Moncure, NC peacefully passed away neember 22, 2013 at Sanford Health & Rehab in Sanford, NC. Mr. Moore was born in Chatham County on May 3, 1926, the son of the late Emma Olivia Olinger and Raymond Lee Moore. Pete was a veteran of WWII who honorably served in the Philippines and Japan....