Peter W. Heiman, a fixture at Weaver Street Market, died in his home on July 7, 2009. Peter was 79 years old, having been born on March 7, 1930 in Wurzburg, Germany. Peter and his family immigrated to the United States in 1938 due to the refugee crisis and settled in Washington Heights in New…
Category: Obituaries
Obituary: Colette Ward Johnson
Colette Ward Johnson, 53, of White Cross Road, Chapel Hill, N.C., died Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at UNC Hospitals after an extended illness. She was the beloved daughter of the late Jasper P. Ward and Octavia Ward Barefoot. Colette was employed by Blue Cross Blue Shield and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church.
Obituary: James Woodrow “Pete†Thrift
Mr. James Woodrow “Pete†Thrift, 89, died Sunday, July 19, 2009 at UNC Hospitals. He was the only child of Pete and Callie Tripp Thrift and was born and educated in Chatham County.
Obituary: Carol Walker Dawson Medlin
Mrs. Carol Walker Dawson Medlin, 59, passed away on Friday evening, July 17 at Hospice of Meadowlands after a lengthy battle with cancer. Carol was the daughter of the late Ned B. and Evelyn Miller Walker of Hillsborough. She retired from Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. and worked at Litho Industries, Cary Printing and,…
Obituary: Antonio Marimpietri
Antonio Marimpietri of Chapel Hill died July 11, 2009. Mr. Marimpietri was born June 8, 1911 in San Panfilo d’Ocre, Italy. He traveled to the U.S. in 1929, served in World War II and made a successful and happy life for himself and his family. He moved to North Carolina in 1991, where he made…
Clyde Camp Jr.
Clyde Camp Jr., 76 years old, passed away after a difficult battle. Clyde was hospitalized at UNC Hospitals for three months and then sent to rehabilitation at Kindred Hospital, where he passed after being there a month. He fought a hard battle with great dignity and constant concern for all his loved ones.
Obituary: Paul Graham Kemp
On Saturday, June 27, friends and family of Paul Graham Kemp will celebrate his life at his Carrboro home, where he passed away peacefully on May 26, 2009, three days after his 51st birthday. He is survived by his loving wife, Carol, and two daughters, Makayla of the home and Cheryl of Burlington, and his…
Obituary: Anne Marie Larkin McJilton
Feisty and fun, with a contagious joy of life, Anne Marie Larkin McJilton lived life to the fullest each day. Possessing an amazing stamina and energy, equal to someone half her age, Anne managed to pack in wonderful times, lots of laughter and last memories for family and friends during her life. Surrounded by family…
What would John Hope Franklin say about the legislature’s decision to honor Jesse Helms?
By Chris Kromm At the recent memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann — daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin’s — related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar. In a conversation about the North Carolina political landscape, someone asked Franklin, “Where…
Obituary: Margaret Alice Middleton
Margaret Alice Middleton was born in Washington, DC on July 10, 1944, and died June 18, 2009. Since 1981 she resided in Carrboro, N.C. where she was a violist and played many concerts with various groups in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Most notably she was a member of the orchestra for the annual…
Obituary: Ann Marie Doxey Turner
Ann Marie Doxey Turner, 69, of 1406 Wildwood Drive, Chapel Hill, passed away Sunday, June 28, at Duke Hospice in Durham. Ann was a native of Durham, daughter of Gretha Oakley Doxey and J. Elwood Doxey. She attended E.K. Powe School and Durham High School, where she was a member of the band, a varsity…
Obituary: Patricia A. Kiefer
Patricia A. Kiefer departed this life June 19th at home, with her family present, after a heroic four-year battle with an incurable cancer. She was the daughter of Herbert J. Lyons and Ethel Anna Hartman of Milwaukee, Wis. An excellent homemaker and mother, she began to home school her first child in 1986 and went…
Obituary: Ben Erwin Perry
Ben Erwin Perry was born January 15, 1927 on McCauley Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He attended Chapel Hill High School and entered the service after graduation and served with the U.S. Army in the occupation forces of Japan. When he returned, he entered UNC and received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree….
Obituary: Judith L. Wilner
Judith L. Wilner, cracking jokes up until the end, passed away at her home at the Cedars of Chapel Hill on May 20, 2009, with her son and daughter holding her hands. Judie, who lived most of her life in Roslyn, N.Y. and Boca Raton, Fla., was born in New York City on January 5,…
Obituary: Lewis Roberson Cheek
Lewis Roberson Cheek, 82, of Dairyland Road in Chapel Hill died Saturday, June 6, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn, of the home; two daughters, Katrina Wright and her husband, Kurt, of Charlotte, and Diane Alridge and husband, Scott, of Holly Springs; and by a son, Kevin Cheek, of Hillsborough. Lewis also leaves…