Obituaries

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,...

Betty Martin Rogers, age 73, resident of 840 Ineenook Road died Wednesday evening at her home. Born in Raleigh, she was the daughter of the late Joseph B. and Addie Everett Martin. Betty was a graduate of St. Mary's Junior College in Raleigh. In addition to being a full time homemaker, she found the time to work with H& R...

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Lois Ferguson Byrd, age 85, died Monday morning, February 13, at Croasdaile Village. She was born in Buffalo, NY to the late Aneew L. and Florence Hopkins Ferguson. Mrs. Byrd moved to Durham in 1926 and graduated from Durham High School in 1939. She was an active member of Uneersity Uneed Methodist Church in Chapel Hill where she taught elementary...

Fred L. Perdue, age 76, of Chapel Hill died Thursday, April 27, at UNC Hospitals. He was born in Montgomery, AL to the late James David and Fanee Lou Davidsoneerdue. Fred earned the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Uneed States Marine Corps. He left the military in 1952 to complete his Maste

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Nina Woods Garriss, 85, of the Methodist Retirement Community, died Monday in Duke Hospital following an extended illness. Mrs. Garriss, a native of Orange County, was the daughter of the late Samuel Woods and Lonie Tilley Woods. She graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1938 and attended Crofts Secretarial and Accounting School. She was retired from the American Tobacco Co....

Charmeyne Lillian Morris Phillips, 68, died Wednesday, May 10, at Durham Regional Hospital. She was born in Durham and graduated from Durham High School, Class of 1955. Charmeyne married Wilbur Phillips in 1957 and sooneelocated to Florida where she owned and operated a water softener and salt delivery business. She later worked ineesidential real estate and was employed by the...

Johnny Waldeck, 83, of Pittsboro, died neember 11, 2008 at The Laurels of Chatham. Johnny was the younger of 2 children, born May 6, 1925 ineertianosch, Rumania, to Peter and Katharina Mueller Waldeck. Johnny immigrated to the Uneed States in June 1952, settling in northern Virginia where he worked in apple orchards and then as a dairyman. He moved to...

Pamela Durham Silverman of 1209 Queensbury Circle, died Thursday, May 5th at Duke Medical Center. Pam was borneeptember 26, 1961 at Danville Virginia Memorial Hospital. She grew up in Yanceyville, North Carolina raised by her parents Dewey Bernard and Anee Lucille Durham. She received her associate's degree from Danville Community College in 1981. Pam met her husband Paul in Danville...

Mrs. Elma Rivenbark Daniel, 98, former resident of the King

Oneebruary 19, 2008, so it was that the Comforter came to take my beloved wife to that eternal silence as she breathed her last earthly breath on Tuesday afternoon, February 19, 2008 at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham, NC. Haleema Rebecca Dunegan Morris, the daughter of the late Jonah and Cora Dunegan, was born on March 13, 1945 in Durham,...

Rena Arleneearp Aneews, 74, died Tuesday ineex Hospital following a brief illness. A life long Durham resident, she was the daughter of the late Oscar and Lena Mitchell Earp. A homemaker until her husband

Adelaide Savey Lutes, age 92, died Sunday evening, neember 25, 2007 at Brookshire Nursing Center in Hillsborough. Mrs. Lutes was born on May 21, 1915 in Elmira, NY to the late Eleanor and Fred Savoy, Sr. Mrs. Lutes attended Elmira schools, and was retired from Arnot Ogdeneemorial Hospital, where she was supervisor of the mailroom. Mrs. Lutes is survived by...

James Wadsworth Godwin, 92, resident of 2405 Carver Street, died Sunday morning at his home. He was born ineee County, son of the late Abner Godwin and Lizzie Hobbs Godwin. Mr. Godwin was retired from GTE, where he was employed for 37 years. He was the oldest surviving member of I.B.E.W. Local Union 289. He was a member of Gorman...