Recent Obituaries

Aug 27, 2014

Mr. Luis Alonso Paiz, 62, of Creedmoor, died on Wednesday August 27, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2014, at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1210 Pleasant Green Road in Hillsborough. Rev. Marc Johnston will officiate. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m., before the service at the church.

Aug 21, 2014

DURHAM  Mrs. Delma Lou Gentry Holsonback, 88, a former resident of Durham, died on Thursday, August 21, 2014.

Mrs. Holsonback was born in Person County, to the late Bill Gentry and Lovie Sue Clayton Gentry. She retired from D. C. May as a seamstress and was the biscuit maker at Cozy’s Kitchen. She was a member of Horton Road Free...

Aug 21, 2014

Aug 21, 2014

Aug 20, 2014

Aug 20, 2014

WAKE COUNTY- Kimberly Ann Shepherd, December 21, 1960- August 20, 2014, Wake Forest, NC.

Kimberly Ann Shepherd,  53, died at her home. Kimberly was the daughter of the late Charles D. Shepherd. Kim had been employed at IBM and later at Duke University Medical Center. She was a 1980 Graduate of Southern High School in Durham, NC.

She was raised...

Aug 19, 2014

Aug 16, 2014

Aug 11, 2014

WAKE-Janet Page Phipps Keller, 79, of Morrisville died on Monday, August 11, 2014.  She was the daughter of the late Joseph Phipps and Betty Page Phipps. She retired from RTI. She attended Good Hope Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Keller.

She is survived by two daughters, Tonya Steele of Apex; Marcelle K. Riley of...

Aug 11, 2014

Aug 11, 2014

Aug 10, 2014

DURHAM- Tena Olivia Ladd Pipkin, 67, of Durham died on Sunday, August 10, 2014. She was a native and lifelong resident of Durham, and graduated from Southern High School and Croft Business College. Since May 1979 Assistant  to the Executive Vice President of Environmental Quality Management, Inc. Environmental Protection Agency for 10 years prior to EQ, owned and operated Beary...

Aug 5, 2014

Aug 4, 2014

Aug 3, 2014

Miss Queen Esther Hagins, 90, of Durham, NC, a former resident of Miami, Florida, died on Sunday, August 3, 2014. Queen Esther retired after 20 years of service from Baptist Hospital in Miami, Florida as a surgical technician. Visitation will be Friday, August 22, 2014 at Hudson Memorial Chapel, 211 S. Miami Blvd., Durham, NC 27703 from 6pm to 8...

Aug 2, 2014

Aug 1, 2014

Jul 28, 2014

Jul 28, 2014

Mr. Wayne William Russ, 71, of 3559 Thollie Green Road in Stem, died on Monday, July 28, 2014. He was born in Durham to the late Ishan Hemingway Russ and Eula Page Russ. He retired from Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company as a Fixer. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 2pm at Life Church...

Jul 26, 2014

DURHAM- Rebecca “Becky” Joan Rich, 55, of Durham died on Saturday, July 26, 2014. She was a native and lifelong resident of Durham, the daughter of the late Thomas Rich. She worked for Durham Exchange Club Industries. She was of the Baptist Faith.

She is survived by her mother Shirley Oakley Rich, one sister, Deborah Fletcher and husband Tommy and...