Barbara Morgan Steagall Maddrey passed away on Friday morning, October 8, 2010 at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C.
Barbara was born on December 16, 1934 in Fayetteville, N.C., to Estace Levoy (Jimmy) and Frances Riddle Morgan of Sanford, N.C., who predeceased her. She will be missed dearly by her family and many friends.
Barbara attended Sanford public schools and went on to attend Sullins College in Bristol, Va., for two years. She married James Gordon Steagall of Oxford, N.C., in 1954 and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1955, where she maintained her residence for 55 years. She was the co-owner of the College Café and Barbara’s Dress Shop in Chapel Hill and Carrboro during the 1970s and ’80s. She also spent 20 years as the sales manager at Morehead Planetarium on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she retired in 2003. She was a longtime member of Orange United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill.
Barbara was predeceased by her second husband, O. Wendell Maddrey, of Seaboard, N.C., whom she married in 1986. She is survived by her four children, Lee Steagall of New Bern, N.C., Tommy Steagall and his wife, Ann, of Raleigh, Michael Steagall and his wife, Elise, of Cary, N.C., and Julia Steagall Hash and her husband, Scott, of Raleigh, as well as her six grandchildren, Morgan and Cameron Steagall, Lauren and Victoria Steagall and Patricia and Matthew Hash. She is also survived by her sister and brother in-law, Sandra Morgan and Lynn McIver (Mike) Perry of Boone, N.C., and their children, Frances Reid Perry Davis of Greensboro, N.C., and Morgan Perry of Charlotte.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Orange United Methodist Church. Condolences may be made online at walkersfuneralservice.com