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Joseph M. Galloway
Joseph Morgan Galloway, retired director of University Placement Services at UNC, died Feb. 24, 2006 in Chapel Hill after an extended illness. He was 88.
Born in Maury County, Tenn., he graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1940 and was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer the same year. During World War II, he served overseas for three years and was awarded the Bronze Star in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve, received the Army Commendation Medal and retired in 1977 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1948 as director of placement, combining vocational guidance and job placement support services. He created and expanded the University Placement Services office to help students bridge the gap between college and career and laid the foundation for today's University Career Services. He also started the Summer Job Program for students, the Alumni Referral Service and a system of credential files. He retired in 1981.
He also was active in leadership roles in the Kiwanis, the U.S. Army Retired Officers' Association and University United Methodist Church.
A memorial service will be at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at University United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret Moore Galloway of Chapel Hill; a son, Jim Galloway of Dobson; two daughters, Angie Galloway Mann of Chatham, N.J., and Jane Galloway Kirkland of Wake Forest; a sister, Louise Potter of Knoxville, Tenn.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Duke Community Hospice Services, 4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101, Durham, N.C. 27704.
Adrian Cubberley
Adrian H. Cubberley died Feb. 26, 2006. He was 88.
Born in Westfield, N.J., he was a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. His career in industry spanned 45 years, including serving in research administration and as deputy scientific director-Europe for Allied Chemical in Brussels, Belgium. He retired in 1985 after 15 years with International Paper Company. He wrote a number of technical articles and was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and the Modern Plastics Encyclopedia.
After retiring to Chapel Hill in 1987, he was elected president of the N.C. Institute of Chemists and a 50-year member of the American Chemical Society and several other related societies.
In Chapel Hill, he was a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club of Chapel Hill for 17 years, a charter member and director of the Friends of the Senior Center and a member of the Triangle Stamp Club of Chapel Hill. He was a member of University Presbyterian Church.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. March 4 in Few Chapel at Croasdaile Village.
Survivors include his wife, Eleanor Gerhardt Cubberley; two children, Bruce Cubberley of Julian, Calif., and Linda Pendleton of Germantown, Md.; and one grandson.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Benevolent Care Fund of The UMRH Foundation of Croasdaile Village.
Arrangements are by Cremation Society of the Carolinas.
Elizabeth Ladd
Elizabeth Carr Franklin Ladd died Feb. 26, 2006 at The Laurels of Chatham in Pittsboro. She was 90.
Born in Roanoke, Va., she was a homemaker who enjoyed gardening and opera and was a member of St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Pittsboro. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
A memorial service will be conducted by the Rev. John Simons and Karen Ladd at 5 p.m. March 2 at St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church. Graveside rites will be at 12:30 p.m. Friday at Evergreen Burial Park in Roanoke, Va.
Survivors include three daughters, Victoria Ann Lane of Roanoke and Katherine Ladd and Karen Ladd, both of Pittsboro; a sister, Jane Lindgren of Lexington, Ky.; and four grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 400 Oberlin Road, Suite 208, Raleigh, N.C. 27605-1351.
Arrangements are by Griffin Funeral Service and Cremation of Pittsboro.
Anita L. Langan
Anita L. Langan of Hillsborough died Feb. 23, 2006 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 71.
Born in New York City, she was a librarian at Levittown Public Library in New York from 1952 to 1972. She moved to North Carolina in 1986. She managed the Orange Congregations in Mission Thrift Shop from 1987 to 2000.
Survivors include her husband, Peter; a son, David A. Wallace of Washington, D.C.; a daughter, Tracy Rusin of Spring Hill, Tenn.; a sister, Loretta Garland of Sayville, N.Y.; and two granddaughters.
A memorial service will be conducted by the Rev. Sharon S. Freeland at 4 p.m. March 4 at the Central Orange Senior Center, 515 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough. The family will receive friends at 3:30.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice Inpatient Care Facility, 1001 Corporate Drive, Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 or to Central Orange Senior Center, 515 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278.
Arrangements by the Cremation Society of the Carolinas.
Sidney H. Siegel
Sidney H. Siegel of Chapel Hill died Feb. 25, 2006.
A private interment will be held in New York and a memorial service in Chapel Hill is planned.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Charnay Siegel; children, Bob and Barbara Siegel; five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Memorial donations may be made to the Ackland Art Museum, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 or to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Donor Services, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, Mass. 01202.
Arrangements are by the Cremation Society of the Carolinas, Raleigh.
James L. Tuttle Jr.
James Lester Tuttle Jr. of Pittsboro died Feb. 27, 2006 at his home following a brief illness. He was 50.
He was a member of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church. He worked as the general manager of Laser Age Company.
A service to celebrate his life will be conducted by the Rev. Patrick M. Cronin at 2 p.m. March 1 at Griffin Funeral Home in Pittsboro.
Survivors include his wife, Robin Hart Tuttle of the home; his parents, Jack and Anne Tuttle of Greensboro; two daughters, Jaime Lauren Tuttle of Greensboro and Jade Erin Tuttle of the home; and a sister, Robyn Lane of Little River, S.C.
Virginia Dreyer
Virginia Elizabeth Jones Dreyer of Pittsboro died March 1, 2006 at Care View Rest Home in Snow Camp. She was 88.
Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., she was a member of First English Lutheran Church in Tiffin, Ohio.
A private graveside service was held March 4.
Survivors include her husband, Dean Dreyer; a son, Duane Dreyer of Durham; three daughters, Joyce Baughman of Pittsboro, Carol Kendall of High Point and Deborah Hinton of Pittsboro; a half-sister, June Thompkins of South Carolina; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Memorial donations may be sent to UNC Hospice, P.O. Box 1077, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312; or to Oak Grove Animal Sanctuary, P.O. Box 1287, Carrboro, N.C. 27510.
Arrangements are by Griffin Funeral Service and Cremation of Pittsboro.
Mary Frazier
Mary Louise Thomas Frazier, formerly of Charlotte, died March 1, 2006 at the Britthaven Nursing Home in Chapel Hill after a long period of declining health. She was 87.
Born in Shopton, she was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Charlotte until her move to Chapel Hill. She was a secretary during most of her adult life in several businesses in the Charlotte area. In 1960, she designed and built her home of 36 years on Daleview Drive in Charlotte.
Funeral services were held March 4 at the McEwen Funeral Home in Charlotte. Burial followed at the family plot in the Forest Lawn cemetery in Charlotte.
Survivors include sons, James Richard Frazier, Harold Leon Frazier; a sister, Ruth McGarry; a brother, William Grady Thomas; and four grandchildren.
Jennifer Marie Hearne
Jennifer Marie Hearne of Pittsboro, died Feb. 27, 2006 at Cape Fear Hospital in Wilmington following a sudden illness. She was 19.
Born in Durham County, she was a 2005 graduate of Northwood High School and was a student at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington. She attended Rock Springs Baptist Church in Pittsboro.
A service to celebrate her life was conducted March 3 by Pastor Shane Arnold at Rock Springs Baptist Church.
Survivors include her parents, Darrell Wayne and Cathy Lawrence Hearne; a sister, Stephanie Hearne of Greenville; and paternal grandparents Lee and Aretta Hearne.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Chatham Animal Rescue, P.O. Box 610, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.
Arrangements by Griffin Funeral Service and Cremation of Pittsboro.
Mildred Rogge
Mildred Fite Woodward Rogge died Feb. 27, 2006 in Audubon, Pa. She was 93.
Born and reared in Nashville, Tenn., she received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and a master's from UNC-Chapel Hill. She was a psychological examiner and taught in the Davidson County schools, Montgomery-Bell Academy and the Nashville City Schools before moving to Chapel Hill in 1947. She was director of the Psychological Testing Laboratory of the UNC Guidance and Testing Center for many years before retirement in 1977. She was a member of the Chapel of the Cross Protestant Episcopal Church. She continued to live in Chapel Hill until April 2003.
There will be a graveside service at the Chapel Of The Cross at 2 p.m. March 15. Interment will be at the Mount Olivet cemetery in Nashville, Tenn.
Survivors include her husband, Robert H. Rogge of Audubon, Pa.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Church of the Cross, 304 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
Sonja van der Horst
Sonja van der Horst died in Chapel Hill Wednesday after a lengthy illness. She was 82.
She spent most of her adult life in Olean, N.Y., before moving to North Carolina in October after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Born Chaya Eichenbaum Teichholz in Tarnopol, Poland -- now part of Ukraine -- she survived the German invasion of Poland during World War II by assuming a false name and working as a non-Jewish slave laborer in Germany. At the end of the war, she worked as a translator in a displaced persons camp, where she met Johannes Martinus Arnold van der Horst. They married Oct. 11, 1945, and lived in the Netherlands, where they had two children, before emigrating to the United States and settling in Olean, N.Y., in 1952.
In their names, a distinguished professorship of Jewish history and culture has been established at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Survivors include four children, Tatjana Schwendinger of St. Louis, Mo., Charles van der Horst of Chapel Hill, Roger van der Horst of Raleigh and Jacqueline Sergent of Oxford; and eight grandchildren.
A Jewish service was conducted March 3 in Olean, N.Y., and burial will be at Portville cemetery.
The family and friends will be sitting shivah at 7 p.m. March 5 at the home of Charles van der Horst and Laura Svetkey in Chapel Hill.
Memorial donations may be made to the UNC professorship https://www.webslingerz.com/unccas/gift.html; the USC Shoah Foundation Institute at https://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/ or the Olean Public Library at https://www.oleanlibrary.org/memorials.html.
Hiawatha Jacobs
Hiawatha Harris Jacobs died March 1, 2006. She was 76.
Born and raised in Orange County, she was a faithful Jehovah's Witness for 48 years. She worked for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and owned Cribs and Cradles Daycare.
A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. March 6 at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness in Carrboro.
Survivors include a sister, Erma Farrar; and children, Lucille Richardson, Teddy Jacobs, Ricky Jacobs, Lewis Jacobs, Erma Sanford, Johnny Jacobs, Cecil Gray, Cynthefer Alston, Dallas Jacobs and (little) Johnny Jacobs; and a host of grandchildren.
Arrangements are by Walker's Funeral Home.
Margaret E. Konrad
Margaret Elizabeth Konrad, 98, died March 3, 2006 at her home in Brookshire Nursing Center in Hillsborough.
She was born in Little Rock, Ark., and grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was a nurse in Louisville, Ky., and was office manager in California in the construction business of her husband, Joseph A Konrad, for 35 years.
Plans for memorial services are incomplete.
Survivors include two sons, Frederick J. Konrad of La Crescenta, Calif., and Thomas Robert Konrad of Chapel Hill; six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Memorial donations may be sent to A Helping Hand, 1777 Fordham Blvd., Suite 202-2, Chapel Hill, N.C.
