Obituaries

Kay Swaim Hutson

Kay Swaim Hutson

Kay Swaim Hutson, 67, of Durham, died Thursday at her home after several years of declining health. Mrs. Hutson was born in Winston-Salem to the late Stokes and Rachael Swaim and resided in Durham for her adult life. She graduated from Gray High School in Winston-Salem, attended Stetson Uneersity ineeland, Florida, and in 1961 graduated from the Uneersity of North...

Jean Goodwineeisner

Jean Goodwineeisner

Jean Goodwineeisner, 83, died Thursday at home with her family at her side, following a brief illness. She was born in Chatham County to the late Charles and Margaret Marks Goodwin. Mrs. Weisner moved to Durham as a young girl and graduated from Lowes Grove High School. While in school she played on the basketball team which won the state...

C.G. Whitehurst

C.G. Whitehurst

C.G. Whitehurst, age 89, died unexpectedly Friday morning at his son

Mary Blackwell Pridgen Martin

Mary Blackwell Pridgen Martin

Mary Blackwell Pridgen Martin died Wednesday morning at Duke Medical Center. The youngest of nee children, she was born in Durham to the late Joseph Davis and Lavinia Blackwell Pridgen. Mrs. Martin would have celebrated her 100th birthday on the 29th of this month. Mrs. Martin was a long-time member of Trinity Uneed Methodist Church and a graduate of the...

Helen Davis Long Tyree

Helen Davis Long Tyree

Helen Long Tyree, 98, died Monday at her home of 17 years, the Forest at Duke. Born in Catawba County, she was daughter of the late Dr. Fred Yount Long and Carrie Belle Davis Long. She graduated from Greensboro College and was a longtime member of Trinity Uneed Methodist Church. Her passion for gardening and community was fueled with her...

Paul Scagnelli

Paul Scagnelli

Dr. Paul Scagnelli, son of the late Julia and Paul Scagnelli, Sr., died on January 16 at the Hock Family Center. Paul was born in 1932 in Bronx, NY and grew up in Mt. Vernon, NY. After receiving his Bachelor's Degree from the Uneersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953, he attended graduate school at Cornell Uneersity. From...

Dorothy Boothe Leighton

Dorothy Boothe Leighton

Dorothy Boothe Leighton passed away peacefully after a brief illness ad Britthaven of Chapel Hill oneednesday, neember 7, 2007. She said,

Ernest B. Autry

Ernest B. Autry

Ernest Boddie Autry, 84, of 1705 Ned Moore Road died Thursday in the VA Medical Center. Mr. Autry owned and operated E. B. Autry Constructioneervices. He was a veteran of WWII and served in the U.S. Army. Mr. Autry was preceded ineeath by his wife, Mildred Williamson Autry. Surviving are five children, Sherrill Cates and David Autry both of Raleigh,...

Anil Gaur

Anil Gaur

Anil Gaur, 55 years of age, of Durham, NC passed away on neember 13, 2016. Anil was born in Jodhpur, India on August 26, 1961. He graduated from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jaipur, India and continued on to receive a BS in Chemical Engineering from Punjab Uneersity, Chandigarh, India. Anil was married to Brijlata Gaur on neember 21, 2004; and they were...

Jacksie Dixon Wheeler

Jacksie Dixon Wheeler

Thursday, January 25th marked the passing of a kind and genee lady, Jacksie Dixon Wheeler, a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. Born to Jack and Maude Dixon on neember 2, 1926 in Hoke County, she then grew up in Creedmoor. She married the love of her life, Aubrey Wheeler, who preceded her ineeath in 2002 after 52 years...

Jerry Wayne Quinn

Jerry Wayne Quinn

Jerry Wayne Quinn, 61, a resident of Chatham County, died July 31 at his home on Crawford Dairy Road after struggling valiantly against cancer. He was born ineensacola, FL and was raised in Durham NC. He served in the US Army in Vietnam and ineermany. Jerry was employed at the UNC in Chapel Hill, first as a laboratory animal assistant,...

Dorothy R. Willis

Dorothy R. Willis

Dorothy Reynolds Willis, 89, died Friday in Britthaven Nursing Center. She resided in Chapel Hill for the last 8 years to be close to her son. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late S.R. and Lydia Mosteller Reynolds. Mrs. Willis was raised in the Long Shoals community and graduated from Tryon High School. In 1941,...

Willie Helen Lamb  Winston Ball

Willie Helen Lamb Winston Ball

Willie Helen Lamb Winston Ball, 90, entered into eternal rest Friday evening at Rex Hospital, Raleigh. Born in Capron, Va., she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Lamb and Dorothy Rena Whitehead Lamb. Helen moved to Durham in 1938. She married Raymond L. Winston, who died in 1970. Later she married Robert L. Ball, who died in 1996....

Mark David Davison

Mark David Davison

Mark David Davison died peacefully Tuesday morning at home with his loving family by his side. He was 39 years old. A resident of Durham since 1996, Mark was born in Binghamton, NY on July 8, 1965. Mark graduated from Campbell Uneersity with a B.A. degree in Pharmaceutical Science and was employed with Cardinal Health in Morrisville, NC as a...

Frances Bailey Ennis Hall

Frances Bailey Ennis Hall

Frances Bailey Ennis Hall, age 84, died Wednesday, neember 7, 2007 at Durham Regional Hospital. Frances was born in Morrisville, NC to the late Dewitt Talmage and Daisy Barbee Bailey. She attended Campbell College and was a charter member of Page Road Baptist Church. Surviving are her sister, Clara B. Layton and husband, E.C. Buck, of Durham; her nephews: Talmage...

Willie M. Pruitt

Willie M. Pruitt

Oxford: Willie M Pruitt, 86, of Southern Pines died neember 7th 2009. A native of Vance County and a former resident of Oxford. A retired textile employee. Funeral Services will be conducted 2:00 PM Friday from Gentry-neell & Vaughan Chapel by the Rev. Bill Wes Garner. Burial will follow ineeadowview Memorial Park. Family will receive visitors from 1:00 PM to...

Lineey Elizabeth Reavis

Lineey Elizabeth Reavis

LIneeY ELIZABETH REAVIS OXFORD: Lineey Elizabeth Reavis, age 2, daughter of Michael J. and Linda Finch Reavis of 6512 Harold O

Bobbie Dupree Smith

Bobbie Dupree Smith

Mrs. Bobbie Dupree Smith, 82, died Saturday morning at her daughte