Obituaries

MARSHALL BERNARD FLOYD, SR. OXFORD- Marshall Bernard Floyd, Sr. age 87, a resident of Oxford died Sunday neember 9, 2008 in the VA Hospital in Durham. He was a native of Granville Co. and was the son of the late Eric Z. and Viola Latta Floyd. He was preceded ineeath by his wife Frances Newton Floyd. Mr. Floyd was the...

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Philip C. Gast, who showed that gumption and tenacity can take your dreams anywhere, died Saturday, May 12th in Durham, N.C. He was 88. Gen. Gast will be remembered professionally as a decorated and accomplished defender of his country, a skilled combat pilot and a respected military leader whose career took him across the country...

William Henry Senter, 87, died Friday, February 23 at Hock Family Pavilion following a brief illness. He was borneecember 13, 1930 in Duke Hospital to the late Marie Pauline and Hubert H. Senter. After graduation from Durham High School, Bill enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving for 4 years until discharge in 1952. He began a career in computers in...

Mrs. Frances Terrell Gibson, 84, died Wednesday morning at Croasdaile Village Retirement Community in Durham, NC. She was preceded ineeath by her husband of 55 years Preston E. Gibson Jr. Mary Frances was born in Atlanta, Ga. to the late Frank Matthews Terrell and Lottie McNair Terrell. After high school graduation she attended the Uneersity of Georgia. She married Preston...

Joe Burton Linker Jr. 7/23/1923 ??? 7/21/2016 Joe Burton Linker Jr., age 92, born in Durham, NC, raised in Chapel Hill, NC, died 7/21/2016. He was a resident of Carol Woods Retirement Community to which he came after having been away from Chapel Hill for 47 years. He was the son of the math professor Dr. Joe Burton Linker and...

Wesley Scott Brewer, 78, of Durham passed away neember 24, 2008 surrounded by his family. He was borneeptember 4, 1930 in Greenwich, Ohio, the son of the late Thomas H. Brewer and Hester Ryder Brewer. After graduation from high school Mr. Brewer voluneered for the Air Force, and served as a staff sergeant with the 502nd Tactical Control Group during...

Mrs. Bertha Sparrow, age 107, passed on to her heavenly home oneeptember 7, 2016. Bertha, the youngest of six children of John Elexander Davis and Sarah Lucretia Parris, was born in a log cabin that her dad built. The log cabin was chosen for its craftsmanship by the Park Service. It was moved and placed on display in 1953 as...

BURLINGTON-Frank Harlaneeade, III, age 38, died at home oneeptember 28, 2017. Frank was born in Durham, NC on May 21, 1979 to Frank Harlan Raeade, Jr. and Bronwyn Cates Evans. Frank was born and received his education in Durham. He grew up with a passion for playing football starting in little league then in the public school system at Brogden...

Hattie Lou Knight, age 80, died Tuesday at Carver Living Center. Hattie was the daughter of the late John N. Lasater, Sr. and Hattie Lou Howard Lasater. She was a native of Durham and a member of Temple Baptist Church. Surviving are her sons, John Knight and wife Teresa and Thomas Knight, all of Durham; her sister, Shirley Seawell, of...

Elizabeth Nash McGavisk, 75, died Tuesday at home following an extended illness. A native of Plattsburgh, NY, she was a Durham resident since 1990. Betty spent her career as a Registered Nurse, having worked within the full range of nursing, including the hospital, nursing homes and private practice. She retired in 2001 from the office of Dr. Sabrina Mentock. As...

Mary Frances Napier ne Broskoski, 85, of Durham, NC, formerly of Springfield, NJ, died at Duke Hospice at the Meadowlands oneeb. 23, 2011 in Hillsborough. Born on July 1, 1925 ineersey City, NJ, Ms. Napier grew up in White Haven, PA. She received a diploma in 1946 from the Hospital of the Uneersity of Pennsylvania for Nurses and served in...

Helen Higgins Fields, 88, died neember 2, 2010. Borneeptember 22, 1922 in Roanee Rapids, Helen was the daughter of Herbert Randolph Higgins and Cornelia Eason Higgins. She lived most of her life in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, before she and her husband, the late William M. Fields, moved to Pittsboro Christian Village. Helen was a homemaker; she was a member of...

DURHAM Mary Westbrook Chapmaneerini, loving wife and mother, age 94, passed away oneebruary 1 at the Pavilion at Croasdaile. She was borneeptember 27, 1917 in Durham to the late David Simeon aneemma Faucette Chapman. She was a lifelong resident of Durham, NC and grew up on Watts Street. Mary graduated from Duke Uneersity on 1936 with a BA degree in...

David H. Strickland, 48, of Stem, NC, died Saturday , neember 15, 2008 at Duke Uneersity Medical Center. David grew up in Franklinton and was the son of Alvin A. Strickland and the late Helen May Strickland. David attended Franklinton High School and graduated from N. C. State Uneersity with a degree in Forestry aneenvironmental Science. For the last 18...

Mildred Hicks Mokus Eubanks, age 83, died Saturday evening at Durham Regional Hospital. Mrs. Eubanks was a Durham native who worked at Erwin Cotton Mills and was later employed by Winn Dixie where she retired in 1985. She regularly attended Wesleyan Church in Roxboro for a number of years. A genee and kind lady, Mrs. Eubanks was a skilled seamstress...

OXFORD: Robert Bob Hubert Burnette, age 73, died Thursday evening, May 31 at his home. A native of Granville County, he was the son of the late Hubert Herndon and Clara Eakes Burnette. Mr. Burnette was a retired tobacco farmer, a former member of the National Guard and a member of Enon Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon...

Ernest Anthony Merklein, Jr., 81, died peacefully with his family by his side on Thursday, September 16, at the DuBose Health Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, oneecember 17, 1928, to Ernest Anthony Merklein, Sr., and Josephine Dale Merklein. He was a graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and Louisiana State Uneersity. After serving...

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Dennis Arnold Aneews, 61, of Smith Level Road, Chapel Hill, died neember 13, 2008 at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Mr. Aneews was born in Bynum oneecember 9, 1946, the son of Tom and Mary Perry Aneews. He had worked various jobs over the years, until his health no longer enabled him to work. Survivors include his daughter, Natalie Aneews...

Miriam Evelyn Linker was born in 1920 on the 22nd of January just two years after the close of the First World War. Miriam lived a full and loving life of 97 years. Miriam passed away peacefully in the presence of her family oneebruary 21, 2017. She is now with her loving Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Like every soul,...