Obituaries

Johneebster Carlile

Johneebster Carlile

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...

Heather Christine Bowman

Heather Christine Bowman

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 Poe

Betty Jean Poe

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

Ralph Frank Ambrosius

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...

Dollye W. Nordgren

Dollye W. Nordgren

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....

Lillian Elizabeth Austin

Lillian Elizabeth Austin

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

Richard Adam Ewers Lischer

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...

Vivianeelvin Vivianeelvin

Vivianeelvin Vivianeelvin

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

Odie Hall Jones

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

Betty Martin Rogers

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...

Lois Ferguson Byrd

Lois Ferguson Byrd

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 Lee Perdue

Fred Lee Perdue

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

Nina Woods Garriss

Nina Woods Garriss

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

Charmeyne Lillian Morris Phillips

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

Johnny Waldeck

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

Pamela Durham Silverman

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...

Elma Rivenbark Daniel

Elma Rivenbark Daniel

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