Obituaries

Marion Laird, 90, of Chapel Hill died on neember 12, 2019.?? She was born in Atlanta, GA to Savelle and Margaret Price Bonavita and grew up in Columbia SC.?? She graduated from Coker College in Hartsville, SC where she cultivated her beautiful singing voice, studied languages and was known fondly as ???Googie???.?? She sang in public venues and on radio...

OXFORD: Mr. Thomas Key Smitty Smith, Jr. age 77, died, Monday, neember 4, 2013 at Granville House. He was a native of Granville County and the son of the late Thomas Key Smith, Sr. and Hattie Leigh Adcock Smith. Mr. Smith was a member of Providence Baptist Church. Funeral services will be conducted oneednesday, neember 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM...

David Ladley Swanson, 53, of Durham, North Carolina, died oneeptember 2, 2019.?? David was born to Lois and Bill Swanson in 1966.?? He attended high school at Justin Siena in Napa, California, and college at Brown Uneersity. ??He received his masters degree in International Public Policy from Duke Uneersity.?? David married Sally Rosenberg in 1992, and they had two children,...

OXFORD: Edith Wilkerson Currin, age 92 died peacefully oneeptember 1, 2013. She was the wife of the late William Frank Currin and the daughter of Melvin and Kate Wilkerson of Sims, NC. She was a 1944 graduate of East Carolina Uneersity with an AB degree in Home Economics and Social Studies. After teaching in Sanford, NC for one year, she...

Mary Ann (Seume) Cate, 75, passed from this life into the presence of her Savior on June 30, surrounded by three generations of her family. Mary Ann spent her childhood in Houston, New Jersey, and Virginia, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Richard Seume, a respected pastor and chaplain at Dallas Theological Seminary, and Mary Troutmaneeume, a feisty Bible teacher. Following...

Barbara Jane Komperda Woods passed away on July 24,??2017??at Hock Hospice Family Pavilion in Durham, North Carolina.?? She was born on May 30, 1941, ineetroit, Michigan to Stanley and Mildred (Grebeck) Komperda, both of whom predeceased her. She is survived by her son Michael Woods and wife Sheila of Hillsborough, NC and their daughters Sarah & Victoria; her daughter Victoria...

A funeral service for Kay will be at Hall-Wynne Funeral Chapel on Thursday, January 24, 2019, at 2 pm with the Rev. Bryan Chestnut presiding. The Manning family will receive friends and family for visitation at Hall-Wynne Funeral Home on Thursday prior to the service from 1-2 pm. Burial will be on Friday, January 25, 2019, at Snow Hill Cemetery...

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...

Eva C. Vaughan, 88, of Bullock, NC died Wednesday, neember 22, 2017. She was born in Mount Airy, NC on neember 29, 1928 to the late Mr. and Mrs. John aneeva Dorothy Callaway. Eva is survived by her daughters, Eva Jane Vaughan of Bullock, and Pearl Rimmer of Roxboro; 6 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren. Funeral...

Betty Thomas Rawls passed away oneebruary 14, 2015, at the Pavilion at Croasdaile Village in Durham, North Carolina. Born on May 1, 1928, in Rockingham, North Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Viola Hunnicutt Thomas Spradley and Theodore Roosevelt Thomas. She attended Rockingham High School and graduated from Woman???s College of the Uneersity of North Carolina, now UNCG....

Rufus Darrell Huff, 61, of Oxford, NC died Sunday, neember 25, 2018.?? He was born in Granville County on August 27, 1957, son of the late Rufus Huff and the late Frances Lunsford Huff. Darrell was a lifelong farmer who knew no better life than his traditional vocation. He enjoyed most the company of his friends and family, the freedom...

Oxford: William Henry ???Will???Day, III came to the end of his earthly life on Thursday, February 25, 2016. Will was the son of William Henry Day, Jr. and Beth Jackson Day. Although his life was short, he touched many lives and he was much loved. Surviving in addition to his parents are his sister, Audrey Woody Day; his maternal grandmother,...

CHAPEL HILL: Lee Alexander Thomas, 61 ??? brilliant, handsome, very funny and very wise, deeply spiritual chorister, child of God, and disciple of Jesus ??? died a peaceful and holy death on Tuesday, August 25 at Duke Hospital in Durham, NC. His husband and his priest were by his side. The cause was complications from acute alcoholic hepatitis following a...

Durham- Frances Elleneennessey Love, a long-time resident of Durham, North Carolina, passed away peacefully oneeptember 3, 2019 after an extensive illness.?? Frances was born in Paris, Kentucky on neember 5, 1935 to John Anthony Hennessey and Mary Kathryneennessey.?? Frances graduated from Lexington Catholic High School and attended the Uneersity of Kentucky.?? She was a Brownie Leader with the Girl Scouts...

Ann Palmer Bayliss, a 43-year resident of Chapel Hill and long-time elementary school library voluneer, died Wednesday, Nov. 20, from complications of lung cancer at Carol Woods. She was 89. She started voluneering at the Estes Hills Elementary School library in 1977 while her youngest son was a student there and continued long after all three sons had graduated from...

A funeral mass for Adeline will be at St. Matthew's Catholic Church in Durham on neember 15, 2018 at 12 noon. Inurnment will follow the mass in the church cemetery. Family and friends are invited after the burial for a reception in the church fellowship hall.

Cecil Manik Perera, 71, died in Duke Hospital following a year-long illness. He was borneebruary 6, 1942 in Sri Lanka, moving to the U.S. in 1967. Cecil initially worked with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington, DC, where he met his future wife, Therese. They were married in 1969 in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Cecil then spent about 30...

Frances Edeburn Slavin, beloved wife of Jack Slavin of Chapel Hill, NC, passed away oneebruary 27, 2013 after a brief illness. Born on January 23, 1929 in Indiana, PA, Frances was the daughter of the late Charles and Frances Woodburn. She was a graduate of the Uneersity of Pennsylvania. Frances married James Edeburn on October 29, 1955, and was the...

Durham ??? Steven Earl Gaddis, age 72, died at home peacefully oneecember 12, 2018. He was born in Knoxville, TN on March 4, 1946 to the late Hazel Ketner Gaddis and Brigadier General Norman C. Gaddis. Born into a military family, Steve???s early childhood years were formative ones growing up in post-war Germany aneengland, as well as Texas, Montgomery, AL,...

John 14:1-3 Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also inee. In my father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself,...