Alfred Henry Baumhover, 85, who was known within Carrboro’s Webbwood community as “Sir Alfred†because he was knighted by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in 1955, died Feb. 21.
Former Carrboro city attorney and district court judge Lowry Matthews Betts, 76, died July 9, having practiced law in North Carolina for more than 50 years.
Christopher James “Jamie†Bishop, 35, was shot and killed in Blacksburg, Va. on April 16. Bishop, a German-language instructor, science fiction artist and former Carrboro resident, was one of 33 people killed in the Virginia Tech shootings.
Former Carrboro Mayor Pro-Tem John D. Boone Jr., who dedicated his life to serving the Carrboro community, died April 28 at the age of 78.
Quincy Bowens, 15, was shot and killed on June 25 while protecting his 2-year-old cousin from a drive-by shooting. The shooting occurred in front of his aunt’s Durham apartment.
Lisa Garmon, community activist and founder of the women’s literary organization the Lillith Collective, died July 3, at the age of 47.
Rita Gray, who worked tirelessly for the IFC and Volunteers for Youth, died in May, at the age of 67.
Former Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe Herzenberg, a civil rights advocate who was North Carolina’s first openly gay elected official and champion of greenways, died Oct. 28, at the age of 66.
Dr. Ronald W. Hyatt, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor, coach, faculty marshal and lifetime advocate of physical fitness, died June 13, at the age of 73.
Sara Marie Pope Lewallen, 75, who helped establish the Farmers’ Market in Carrboro, died Aug. 20.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette died in an automobile accident in Mississippi on July 10, at the age of 57.
Doug O’Dell, 53, founder, owner and operator of Chapel Hill Rare Books, died March 23.
Daniel Okun, Kenan professor of environmental sciences and engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and passionate protectionist of water resources, died Dec. 10, at the age of 90.
J. Kirk Osborn, 64, a Chapel Hill attorney and former public defender who recently represented Reade Seligman in the Duke lacrosse case, died March 25.
Max Paul, the well-traveled World War II veteran who was “a fixture around Weaver Street Market,†died on June 13, at the age of 87.
UNC-Chapel Hill student Jason Kendall Ray, 21, who cheered on the Tar Heels from beneath the Rameses costume, died March 26, after he was hit by an automobile in Fort Lee, N.J.
Former school board chair and education advocate Mary Scroggs, 85, died in April.
UNC social work and medical school professor Florence Gray Soltys, who devoted much of her life to advocating for the rights of the elderly at local, county and state levels, died on Sept. 27, at the age of 72.
Lucy W. Straley, 93, a founding member of the Community Church of Chapel Hill and widow of UNC-Chapel Hill professor and civil rights advocate Joseph Straley, died on March 29.
Gloria Ines Suarez, 55, staff member of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine, died in a fire that engulfed her home at Highland Hills Apartments on Sept. 30.
Marty Ravellette, 67, who was famous in the community and across the nation for living a full, productive life despite having been born without arms, died Nov. 12.
Army Sgt. Lee C. Wilson, 30, was killed in action on Sept. 6, when a bomb exploded near his vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. Wilson, a graduate of Chapel Hill High School, was one of three soldiers killed in the explosion.
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