Obituaries

Emma Mangum Turrentine

Emma Mangum Turrentine

Mrs. Emma Mangum Turrentine, 81, died Saturday morning in Durham Regional Hospital. A native of Granville county, she was the daughter of the late Steven and Lula Evans Turrentine. She lived ineew York City for most of her adult life and moved to Durham in 1972. Surviving are one daughter, Jean Louretta Jackson of Suitland, MD. and one son Luther...

Suezine Adams Wilson

Suezine Adams Wilson

Suezine Adams Wilson, age 95, died Thursday in Durham Regional Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Granville County to Ebbie and Nanee Turner Adams, Mrs. Wilson was the last member of her family. She was a long time resident of the Cedar Fork Community. Mrs. Wilson worked at Aerotron Electronics for 20 years. She was a devoted member of...

Edsel Bowling Terry

Edsel Bowling Terry

Edsel Bowling Terry, age 90, died peacefully at his home on Thursday morning, December 29. A Durham native, he was born to the late Joseph D. and Sudie Poole Terry oneecember 8, 1921. Edsel proudly served his country in the U.S. Army aneearned the rank of Master Sergeant, 98th Bombardment Group, 415th Bombardment Squadron. He attended Mt. Lebanon Primitive Baptist...

Delancy S. Price

Delancy S. Price

DeLancy S. Price died Saturday at the Forest at Duke Retirement Community, where she lived since 1993. A former resident of Newbury, SC, she was the daughter of Jeffie Lee and Braneey H. Snelgrove. Receiving her education in the Newbury city schools, she went on to graduate from Newbury College. A teacher in the Williamsburg and Florence County, SC school...

Catherine S. Craig

Catherine S. Craig

Catherine S. Craig, age 91, died peacefully on neember 23, 2009 at Duke Medical Center. Born on August 2, 1918 in Wake County, she was the daughter of the late Henry Smith and Flonee Newson Smith and widow of John T. Craig, Jr. who died in 1993. She was the last member of her immediate family of six children, Hettie...

Anee Louise Moss

Anee Louise Moss

Anee Louise Moss, age 89, died Tuesday evening, neember 9, 2010, at the Hillside Nursing Center in Wake Forest. Anee Louise was born in Franklin County on May 27, 1921 to the late George and Anee Bertha Winbon Laughter. She was a long-time member of Union View Baptist Church in Franklinton. Anee Louise is survived by her three children: James...

Elizabeth Antipov

Elizabeth Antipov

Elizabeth Iliashenko Antipov, 77, died at home Thursday following an extended illness. Born in Yugoslavia as an only child, she immigrated to the U.S. with her parents in the late 1940

Cleva Wilson Blythe-Hester

Cleva Wilson Blythe-Hester

OXFORD: Mrs. Cleva Wilson Blythe-Hester, age 95, died Friday, neember 5, 2010 at Granville House in Oxford, NC. She was the daughter of the late R. Edward Wilson and Carrie Snowden Wilson of Williamsburg County, S.C. She was preceded ineeath by her first husband S. Marshall Blythe and second husband, C. Landis Hester of Oxford. She was a faithful member...

Constance Vogel

Constance Vogel

Constance Vogel died unexpectedly Tuesday at home. Mrs. Vogel moved to Durham two years ago from Stroudsburg, PA. She was a native of Brooklyn, NY. Surviving are her husband, E. Paul Vogel; a son, William F. Vogel, daughters, Mary Ann Power, Janet M. Scharp and Patricia J. Barth; and 16 grandchildren. A Mass of Christian burial will be offered 12:00...

Walter Frost

Walter Frost

FROST, Walter, 77, passed away on May 24th. Walter, also known to many as "Jack," is survived by his sister, Mary Eileen Credle of Durham, his nephews Vincent Credle, William Cliff Credle, Walter "Ted" Credle and nieces, Maria Credle-Kessler and Stephanie Kate Credle. Walter was also a grand unee to eleven grand nieces and nephews. Born and raised in Somerville,...

Rodney Wallace Murray

Rodney Wallace Murray

Rodney Wallace Murray, 58, resident of Raleigh, died Saturday. Born in Durham, he was the son of the late Joseph H. and Lola Cone Murray. For 38 years Mr. Murray has been in fire service. He was with the Chapel Hill Fire Department for 26 years and the last 12 years he was Fire Chief for the town of Carrboro....

James Thomas Rich

James Thomas Rich

James Thomas Rich of Durham went home to meet his Lord Friday evening following a short illness at Duke Hospital. He is survived by his two "Reds" wife, Polly Woodlief Rich and L'il Red Rich, his mother, Mrs. Lucille Rich, nephew Travis Medlin, his adopted brother, Brent Tapp and special friend of 30 years, Bobby "O" O'Briant, along with legions...

Lois Pierce Copeland

Lois Pierce Copeland

Lois Pierce Copeland, 91, died Sunday in Blowing Rock Hospital following a brief illness. A native of Cincinnati, she lived most of her life in Durham. Mrs. Copeland was retired from Central Carolina Bank, where she worked in auditing

Rosemary Kern Whitfield

Rosemary Kern Whitfield

Rosemary Kern Whitfield, 82, died Wednesday in Durham Regional Hospital. She was borneeptember 11, 1923 on the family farm outside Lismore, Minn. as one of nee children. After marriage to her husband, Robert, the couple made their home in Trimont, MN, later moving to Durham in 1966. Rosemary was a beloved waitress at Bullock

Virginia Blair Quineevans

Virginia Blair Quineevans

Virginia Blair Quineevans, 74, of Chapel Hill, NC, died on Saturday, Feburary 4, 2012. She was born in Shreveport, LA on April 22, 1937, the daughter of Mary Virginia Saunders Quinn and Dr. Harold Joseph Quinn. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA and graduated from Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane Uneersity, New Orleans, in 1959. At Randolph-Macon she took...

Boyce Cole Link

Boyce Cole Link

Boyce Cole Link, age 83, died peacefully in his Durham home Monday morning, October 30. He was born in Orange County oneeptember 9, 1923 to the late John A. and Ruby Cole Link Mr. Link was a life-long member of Mt. Hermon Baptist Church and the Hudsoneen