Teresa Mitchell Rad, 47, of Carrboro, North Carolina, died Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 at UNC Hospitals after an eight-month-long battle with lung cancer.
Teresa was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., Jan. 11, 1962 to Grover and Dorothy Mitchell. In 1984, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor of arts degree in English literature.
Theresa’s love of the Chapel Hill area kept her in the area throughout most of her adult life. Shortly after college, she was hired at The Village Companies, where her career in sales and advertising began. In 1998, she founded Radius Communications, an advertising agency specializing in programs for malls around the country.
She was a loving, energetic and devoted mother to her three boys. She loved books, politics and walks down Franklin Street, especially on those first heart-breakingly beautiful days of spring. She never forgot a birthday. Her life-of-the-party personality and love of ‘70s dance music made people smile.
Theresa is survived by her three children, Cyrus, 10, and Kaveh and Jahon, twins, 8; her brother, Glenn Mitchell, and his wife, Melissa Mitchell, and family of Walnut Cove, N.C.; her sister, Deborah Cutrell, and her husband, Norris Cutrell, of Tobaccoville, N.C.; and a tight circle of devoted friends, whom to her were like family.