Obituaries

Oct 19, 2022

Roy O Rodwell, Jr., 86, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. Roy was born September 26, 1936 in Henderson, North Carolina, son of Roy O Rodwell and Rebecca Watkins Rodwell. He is survived by his daughters Nancy R Tuohy of Winston-Salem, NC and Rebecca R Kelley (husband Jason) of Durham, NC, grandsons Patrick R Tuohy and William G...

Oct 18, 2022

   DURHAM – Lieutenant Colonel Henry Thomas Hayden (Tom), USMC (Ret), recently of St. Marys, GA, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at his residence in Durham, NC.

   LtCol Hayden was born 14 July 1941, in Louisville, KY. He is survived by his wife Sheila, their daughter Alessandra Dinin and son-in-law Aaron Dinin, and granddaughters Adeline and Imogen. His brothers...

Oct 16, 2022

DURHAN, JUAN JORGE ROSELLO, age 66, died in Rose Manor on October 16, 2022. He was born on November 26, 1955 to the late Berta Teresa Socarras and Juan Rosello Serra.

He was in the National Guards for 4 years where he learned how to install and maintain phone systems communication and later networks. Juan had an orange belt in Martial...

Oct 15, 2022

Oxford, NC 

George McClellan “Mac” Hendrick, age 83, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 15, 2022. He was the son of the late John William Hendrick and Gladys Brown Hendrick. Mac began his full life in Granville County, NC on October 27, 1938. Mac was the husband of Sylvia Surratt Hendrick for 65 years, but they had known each other...

Oct 15, 2022

Henderson, NC 

Garrell Shaun Surratt, age 44, died unexpectedly on Saturday, October 15, 2022. He was the son of Vestal “Mac” Surratt Jr., and the late Diane Leigh Edwards and the grandson of Vestal M. Surratt, Sr and Esther Surratt and Lee and Pat Edwards of Creedmoor. Shaun was born on March 9, 1978, in Vance County, NC.

Shaun was a...

Oct 13, 2022

Vincent (Vinny) Farrell, 45, passed away on October 13, 2022, due to injuries sustained on the job. 

Vincent was born on September 30, 1977, and was a graduate of Durham Southern High School and was employed at Wolfspeed. 

Vincent was a loved member of New Hope Church in Durham. Vincent was very involved with the church youth group and provided...

Oct 13, 2022

On October 13, 2022, heaven welcomed home a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Carolee Mavy Peacock.

She was born May 4, 1944, to Carol Arlow Mavy and Mary Kelley Mavy in Gridley, CA. Carolee, the second of five children, grew up in Northern, CA surrounded by her grandparents Christopher Kip Mavy and Priscilla Marie Guptill Mavy, Guy...

Oct 12, 2022

(Durham, NC) – Garth (Mike) Noonan Montgomery, Jr. of Blacksburg, VA, died on 10/12/2022. He was born on 2/2/1951 to the late Margaret Matthews Montgomery and Garth Montgomery, Sr. in Manhattan, NY.

Mike graduated Horace Greeley Highschool, Chappaqua, in 1969 after spending his senior year in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended school in London, England from 1963 to 1965 where his father...

Oct 12, 2022

G. Paul DeRosa was born on October 25, 1939 and passed away peacefully on October 12, 2022 after a valiant battle against neuro-endocrine cancer. He was the eldest son of Louis DeRosa and Julia (Muzzillo). Paul was raised in the northeastern Indiana town of Angola. Following graduation from high school, he attended and graduated from the University of Notre Dame....

Oct 11, 2022

Durham - Mrs. Wanda O’Shinski Moore of Croasdaile Village retirement community passed away on October 11 at Duke Regional Hospital. She was born January 24, 1925 in Killarney, West Virginia to the late Michael and Mary Wagner O’Shinski. She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Donald Blair Moore, who died July 31, 2012; two brothers, Henry...

Oct 10, 2022

Janine Giacomini Guimberteau, age 91, passed away Monday October 10, 2022 in Chapel Hill, NC. She was born a French citizen in Algiers, Algeria, North Africa and moved to Paris to attend the Sorbonne University. She participated in the Fulbright Scholar Exchange Program as a teacher of English as a foreign language in the mid-1950s, and met a fellow Fulbright...

Oct 6, 2022

Chapel Hill -  Susan Gail Naumoff passed away peacefully on October 6, 2022 at age 78. She is survived by her son, Caleb Southern of Atlanta; her daughter, Genevieve Southern of Durham; two grandchildren, Stella Coleff and Max Coleff of Durham; and four siblings: Carolyn Lerner of Myrtle Beach; Lawrence Naumoff of Chapel Hill; Elizabeth McCarthy of Sarasota; and Deborah...

Oct 5, 2022

Wayne Thomas Milton, age 53, of the Providence community in Oxford, NC died suddenly on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. He was born in Vance County on March 12, 1969, to Perry Eugene “Gene” Milton and Patsy Daniel Milton.

Wayne, to most known as Doughnut, was a man with a heart of gold and a beautiful, kind soul. He believed in family,...

Oct 5, 2022

William Oliver “Bill” King Sr. of Durham, N.C. passed away peacefully at Duke Medical Center on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. He was 85 years old.

Bill came from humble beginnings in Louisburg, N.C. — his father ran a country store where Bill started working when he was 7 years old — yet he went on to reach the top of his...

Oct 4, 2022

Oct 4, 2022

George Allen Ives Jr. died peacefully on October 4, 2022 at 91 years of age. George was born in New Bern, NC on August 15, 1931. He attended New Bern public schools until his junior year of high school, when he transferred to Woodberry Forest School in Virginia. After graduating from Woodberry in 1949, George went to Princeton University where...

Oct 2, 2022

Oxford

Kenneth Robert Willis, age 74, died peacefully on Sunday, October 2, 2022. He was the son of the late Harold Parker Willis and Ann Mayo Willis. Ken was born in Bladen County, NC on February 09, 1948.

Ken is survived by his son, Kenneth Robert Willis, II (Sherri) and his grandchildren, Taylor Willis, Hunter Willis, and Austin Riggan and his fiancée,...

Oct 2, 2022

Betty Rue Johnson Howie

December 22, 1934 – October 2, 2022

   Durham, NC – Betty Rue Johnson Howie, age 87, died at Duke University Hospital on Sunday, October 2, 2022. She was a dedicated Christian lady, and she got to go to church in Heaven that Sunday morning. She was born on December 22, 1934 in Greensboro, NC to the late...

Sep 30, 2022

Oxford

Edward Ossie Smith, age 72, died peacefully on Friday, September 30, 2022. He was the son of the late Edward Eugene Smith and Mary Helen Younge Smith. Ossie was born in Granville County, NC on October 28, 1949.

Ossie was a strong fixture in the community who was a lifelong resident of Granville County.

Ossie is survived by his daughters, Jennifer Smith...

Sep 30, 2022

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Wilkerson, age 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 30, 2022. She was the daughter of the late Floyd Lunsford and Allie Gentry Lunsford and began her full life in Person County, NC on May 21, 1933.

Betty was a homemaker with a special talent in the kitchen. She was well known for her cooking and baking....