Dorothy Page Simpson of Chapel Hill, N.C., passed away peacefully at dawn on Monday, October 25, 2010 at the age of 90. She was the daughter of the late Evelyn Spruill Page and Julius Andrews Page Sr. and was born at home on South Sixth Street in Wilmington, N.C., on March 15, 1920 and moved with her family to Chapel Hill in 1924.
A 1937 graduate of Chapel Hill High School, she studied business at the University of North Carolina before working at the campus post office during World War II. During the 1970s and 1980s, she served as the administrative secretary of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Office of Married Student Housing in Odom Village.Â
A member of University United Methodist Church for more than half a century, she loved Chapel Hill and the old university campus, and since childhood was a devoted follower of Carolina basketball and football. She grew up playing in the stadium woods and found great beauty in the natural world of her hometown and state. She deeply loved the Outer Banks, and often commented upon the “serene beauty†of storms coming in from the ocean.
Dorothy Page Simpson is survived by her children, Sherri Simpson Million and her husband, Mitchell James Million; Susie Spruill Simpson and Martin Bland Simpson III and his wife, Ann Cary Simpson; by six grandchildren, Stetson James Million, Paul Simpson Brett, Samuel Winslow Brett, Susannah Page Simpson, Hunter Trenholm Simpson and Cary Bland Simpson; and by four nephews and 11 grand-nieces and grand-nephews. She was predeceased by her sisters and brothers, Sallie Page Lamborn, Evelyn Page Burdette, Julius Andrews Page Jr. and Joseph Daniel Page.
Online condolences may be made at walkersfuneralservice.com. Memorial contributions may be made to UNC Public Television, P.O. Box 14900, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-49