Obituaries

Sybil McGilvary Davis, a Durham native, died Monday, October 23, at Duke Medical Center. She was 81 years old. Borneecember 17, 1924 to the late David S. aneessie P. Rigsbee McGilvary, Mrs. Davis was a long-time member of Hope Valley Baptist Church. She was employed by Hudsoneelk for many years before her retirement in 1991. Mrs. Davis is survived by...

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Ruth M. Waiden, age 89, was promoted to glory to be with God oneednesday morning, August 6, 2008. Mrs. Waiden was born in Franklin County to the late Felix and Bessie Edwards May on neember 14, 1918. Mrs. Waiden was the retired owner of City Lunch Caf and a longtime member of Franklinton Baptist Church. Loved by all who knew...

Mrs. Lena Mae Thomerson Austin, 89, died Wednesday afternoon in Britthaven of Chapel Hill. Mrs. Austin was born in Oxford and was the daughter of the late Dr. Graham Thomerson and Katie Belle Saunders Thomerson. Her husband, Jonas McCoy Austin preceded her ineeath. For many years she was bookkeeper for Carolineelectric Company. Mrs. Austin was active for many years in...

Ellen Williams Goodwin, 89, died Saturday morning, May 14, at home in Ormond Beach, FL. She was born in Granville County, NC to the late Crawford Coleman and Lucy F. Clark Williams. Mrs. Goodwin moved from Durham to Ormond Beach, FL in 1993. While living in Durham she was a charter member of Bethesda Uneed Methodist Church. Mrs. Goodwin is...

Marilyneewis Felton, 47, died ineer home in Durham oneecember 16. Marilyn was the daughter of Gayle Carltoneelton and Albert L. Felton. She was a native of Pinetops, NC. Marilyn attended the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, trained as a pharmacy technician, and was certified as an Emergency Medical Technician. The true vocation of her life was caring, listening,...

Lazar Pancras reached eternal happiness on May 20, 2007, in the presence of his beloved wife Josephine Mary. He was the proud father of Alice 38, Prabhu Aneews 34 and Leo Anand 25. Lazar was 65 and died of unexpected acute heart attack. Lazar was born in Salem, India. He was baptized in 1942 at the Saint Mary

Helen Johnson Hobby, 84, died Friday morning at Durham Regional Hospital. Although she resided in Durham most of her life, Mrs. Hobby was born in Chatham County to the late Paul Hamilton and Mary Lee Stokes Johnson. She was the last of five siblings. Mrs. Hobby was a member of the Summit Church, formerly Homestead Heights Baptist Church, for 21...

Efland- Helen Mary Wasnak, 78, died at Duke Uneersity Hospital peacefully on Monday, neember 8, 2010. Born ineew York City, NY on August 5, 1932, she was the daughter of the late James Delahunty and Margaret Lee Delahunty. She is survived by her daughters, Margaret Wasnak of New York; Eileen Wasnak of Fuquay-Varina; a son, James Wasnak of Efland; a...

Carolyn Mann Haggard died Monday, August 28, at Durham Regional Hospital. She was 74 years old. Mrs. Haggard was born in Knoxville, TN on neember 1, 1931 to the late Ernest K. and Lillian McKinney Mann. Mrs. Haggard is survived by her four children: Susan Huff and husband, Ken, of Durham, NC; Harold Haggard and wife, Sarah, of Charlotte, NC;...

DURHAM - Johneebster Carlile died oneeptember 8, 2005 in Durham, North Carolina where he had lived for the past 8 years. A warm, loving, caring, funny, optimistic, strong and genee man, he lived 89 years enriched by family and friends and gracing their lives with his love. Born April 21, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio to William Arthur and Ruth Huntington...

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DURHAM - Heather Christine Bowman, 27, went home to be with her Lord on Saturday following an automobile accident. Born oneecember 7, 1977 in Vincennes, Indiana, Heather lived in Durham for the past 20 years. She is the daughter of David L. Bowman and Susan L. Bowman. Heather was an active member of New Horizon Church in Durham, where her...

Betty Jean Dwiggens Poe, 68, former resident of Newport, NC, died Sunday at Carver Living Center. Born in Durham, she was the daughter of the late William G. Dwiggens aneearlina Copley Dwiggens. She retired from Duke Medical Center as supervisor of medical records. Surviving are her husband Charles L.

Ralph Frank Ambrosius, 80, of 20 Aldersgate Court, died Saturday morning at Durham Regional Hospital. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio he was the son of the late Alfred Gustav and Annette Hurst Ambrosius. During WWII, he served his country in the U.S. Army. Mr. Ambrosius was a graduate of the Uneersity of Cincinnati. He retired from Cincinnati Bell, where he was...

DURHAM: Dollye W. Nordgren, 78, died at home Tuesday. A native of Greenville, Miss., she attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Mrs. Nordgren lived most of her adult life in the Chicago area, where she raised her four children, and owned and operated her own travel agency. She had been a Durham resident for the last 15 years. Mrs....

Beloved wife and mother of five, devout Catholic, and a patriotic American who loved to travel the world B: May 6, 1926; D January 28, 2017 Lillian Elizabeth Austin entered this world in Manhattan, New York on May 6, 1926.?? She was the eldest daughter of three born to James Christian and Lillian Ruth (Robertson) Soelle.?? She will be missed...

Richard Adam Ewers Lischer, of Durham, died Sunday morning, July 17, after a brief struggle with cancer. He was 33. He was the husband of Jenneer Lischer, to whom he was married in 1999 and who sustained him throughout his illness, and the father of a baby girl whose birth is soon expected. A native of St. Louis, Adam Lischer...

DURHAM - Vivianeelvin, age 92 died oneecember 26.???? She was born oneept 3, 1924 to Halcott Hughes and Daisy Inscoe Williams.?? Vivian was born and raised in Durham NC.???? She loved her days at Durham High School and loved to play tennis there.?? As she shared her stories of being a young girl, and by the way a gorgeous young...

Odie Hall Jones died Monday morning at Hospice of the Meadowlands. A Durham native, Odie recently turned 87 on April 16 of this year. She was the daughter of the late Ezra Thomas and Odie Vance Partin Hall. Odie attended Bethel Christianeenter.Surviving are her son, Randy H. Jones and wife, Pana, of Durham; her daughter, Diane J. Swain and husband,...