
{"id":14903,"date":"2010-12-30T09:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14903"},"modified":"2010-12-30T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:38:05","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/12\/30\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remembrance of some among those our community lost this year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth P. Strong<\/strong>, longtime PlayMakers Repertory Company actor and dramatic arts professor at UNC, of cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolyn Roycroft Cobb<\/strong>, a member of the Preservation Society and the Cancer Task Force for North Carolina and a Brownie and Girl Scout leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Robinson<\/strong>, seafood merchant and a sharp-witted, sometimes-acerbic, honest and forthright individual, following a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Pollitt<\/strong>, civil-liberties champion, civil-rights pioneer and longtime UNC law professor, at 88.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia E. Tolliver<\/strong>, teacher, administrator and civic leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pearson H. Stewart<\/strong>, the first vice president of the Research Triangle Foundation and first executive director of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission and its successor agency, the Triangle J Council of Governments, at 90.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew John Miketa<\/strong>, professional football player and local dentist, while undergoing emergency surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ike Andrews<\/strong>, six-term representative of North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 4th Congressional District, at 84.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia Julian<\/strong>, passionate equestrian and founder and owner, with her husband, of Milton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Clothing Cupboard in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Osment<\/strong>, skilled legal strategist and tactician, fierce champion of justice and advocate for an underdog, musician and mother, at 46, of ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toy Cheek<\/strong>, local farmer, active member of both the Orange County Cattleman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Association and the Carrboro Planning Board, at 81.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warren Nord<\/strong>, founding director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values at UNC, of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bertha \u00e2\u20ac\u0153B\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Merrill Holt<\/strong>, the first women to enroll in the University of North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s School of Law and the only woman in her class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Francis Eldridge<\/strong>, board member of the Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library and longtime community volunteer, at 83.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Roberts<\/strong>, former Chapel Hill town clerk and tax collector, at Carillon Assisted Living in Hillsborough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homer Morrow<\/strong>, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unofficial mayor of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a familiar face to many, at 68.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucy McKerrow<\/strong>, a physical therapist for those with disabilities and a teacher of tennis and bowling to generations of high school girls, at the age of 105.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob Hogan<\/strong>, a local farmer and a friend to many, from injuries sustained from a fall while stepping down from his tractor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arthur Cogswell<\/strong>, whose work and mentorship of others inspired new directions in architecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arlene Nutter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Muffin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brosig<\/strong>, known throughout the community as the co-founder of Maple View Ice Cream and for her charitable work, of cancer, at 53.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June Watson<\/strong>, supervising nurse in N.C. Memorial Hospital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outpatient department, surrounded by family and friends in her Dogwood Acres home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wesley Lowder<\/strong>, owner of the Reservoir Bar in Chapel Hill, at 32, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard Pendergraph<\/strong>, a detective with the Chapel Hill Police Department for 35 years, at 86.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marie Louise \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peachee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wicker<\/strong>, one of the first women to graduate from UNC with a master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in psychology and a driving force behind the movement to integrate the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Sitterson<\/strong>, a member of\u00c2\u00a0the first public library board, organizer for Meals on Wheels, active member of Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church and co-founder of\u00c2\u00a0the Carol Woods rose garden, at 91.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Edwards<\/strong>, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, author and advocate for health care reform, at 61, of cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon Allen<\/strong>, who represented Orange and Person counties and served in both the N.C. House and Senate, at 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remembrance of some among those our community lost this year:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}