December

Durham, NC - Vera Davis, a former employee in Central Processing and Sterilization, died Dec. 9. Davis worked at Duke from 1958 to 1984.

Sybil Crabtree, a former employee in the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Program, died Dec. 13. Crabtree worked from 1966 to 2004.

Lillie Bryant, a former employee in the Radiation Oncology department, died Dec. 28. Bryant worked at Duke from 1959 to 1995.

Julia Dawson, a former employee in the office of dean of student affairs, died Dec. 8. Dawson worked at Duke from 1974 to 1988.

Lillie Giles, a former allergy and immunology lab employee, died Dec. 10. Giles worked at Duke from 1956 to 1985.

Tomasena Langley, a former physical plant worker, died Dec. 14, Langley worked at Duke from 1970 to 1984.

James Smith, a former Surplus Store employee, died Dec. 19. Smith worked at Duke from 1973 to 2001.

Hattie N. Jones, a former personnel food services employee, died, Dec. 22. Jones worked at Duke from 1947 to 1989.

Elizabeth Fuller, a former Duke Stores worker, died Dec. 24. Fuller worked at Duke from 1965 to 1982.

November

Linda Hill, an employee in the Microbiology Department, died Nov. 28. Hill has worked at Duke since 1990.

James A. Moody, a former recovery room worker, died Nov. 27. Moody worked at Duke from 1970 to 1997.

Gladys Baker, a former hospital laundry worker, died Nov. 29. Baker worked at Duke from 1950 to 1977.

Carolyn A. Harper, former patient nutrition employee, died Nov. 29. Harper worked at Duke from 1986 to 2005.

Adrienne Gee, an ER unit coordinator, died on Nov. 23. Gee worked at Duke since 1986.

Catherine S. Thomas, a former employee in materials management, died on Nov. 21. Thomas worked at Duke from 1965 to1982.

October

Delores Atkins, a former employee at the Duke Eye Center, died on Oct. 2. Atkins worked at Duke from 1964 to 1981.

Willie S. Purvis, a former outpatient dialysis employee, died Oct. 2. Purvis worked at Duke form 1964 to 2004.

Norris Hill, a former employee in plant operation, died on Oct. 20. Hill worked at Duke from 1955 to 1995.

Eugenia Ladd, a former physics professor, died on Oct. 22. Ladd worked at Duke from 1964 to 1981.

Mary H. Satterwhite, a former employee in the Dietetics department, died Oct. 28. Satterwhite worked at Duke from 1960 to 1984.

September

Martha B. Armstrong, a former Duke employee, died on Sept. 5. Armstrong worked at Duke from 1947 to 1981.

Mazie Jones, a former environmental services employee, died Sept. 26. Jones worked at Duke from 1969 to 1986.

Dorothy F. Blackburn, a former Duke employee, died on Sept. 9. Blackburn worked at Duke from 1978 to 1992.

Goldie H. Cross, a former sterile processing employee, died on Sept. 27. Cross worked at Duke from 1965 to 1989.

Luther Riley, a former Duke University Stores employee, died Sept. 21. Riley worked at Duke from 1964 to 1976.

Sally Winds, a housekeeping employee, died Sept. 12. Winds worked at Duke from 1986 to 2009.

Evaline B. Ray, a former employee in General Anesthesia Services, died Sept. 8. Ray worked at Duke from 1980 to 1993.

Vida Cheek, a golf course employee, died on Sept. 8. Cheek worked at Duke in 2009.

August

Grace D. Rigsbee, a former employee in patient/visitor assistance services, died on August 22. Rigsbee worked at Duke from 1988 to 1999.

Kevin Graves, a housekeeping employee, died Aug. 31. Graves worked at Duke from 2007 to 2009.

William B. Morris, a former maintenance worker at the Medical Center, died Aug. 28. Morris worked at Duke from 1986 to 2000.

Arthur Holloway, a former Davison employee, died Aug. 22. Holloway worked at Duke from 1986 to 2003.

James M. Hicks, a former VPIT employee, died Aug. 22. Hicks worked at Duke from 2002 to 2009.

James Parker III, a former nursing services employee, died Aug. 1. Parker worked at Duke from 1989 to Jan. 2009.

Shirley Pendergrass, a former maintenance overhead worker, died Aug. 11. Pendergrass worked at Duke from 1968 to 2001.

Mary Deberry, a former sterile processing employee, died Aug. 12. Deberry worked at Duke from 1982 to 2003.

Jayachandran Jayakrishnan, a researcher in urologic oncology, died Aug. 17. Jayakrishnan started working at Duke in 2007.

Lorraine Hampton, a former surgical unit worker, died Aug. 18. Hampton worked at Duke from 1977 to 1996.

Wilhelmina Huffer, a former provost office employee, died Aug. 23. Huffer worked at Duke from 1961 to 1978.

July

Dorothy Crutchfield-Allen, a former nursing staff resource employee, died July 25. Crutchfield-Allen worked at Duke from 1983 to 1998.

 Jack Murray Jr., a former maintenance worker, died July 14. Murray worked at Duke from 1967 to 1994.

Vertia McNeil, a former worker in Davison Building, died July 18. McNeil worked at Duke from 1983 to 2005.

June

Christine Martin, a former employee in the Division of General Medicine, died June 22. Martin worked at Duke from 2000 to 2002.

Helen Buchanan, a former employee at Duke Medicine's Highland Hospital, died June 30. Buchanan worked at Duke from 1964 to 1978.

Robinson Everett, a professor of law, died June 12. Everett joined the Duke faculty in 1957.

Janet Sauls, an environmental services worker at Duke, died June 23. Sauls started work at Duke in 1991.

May

Barbara L. Donovan, a former chairman in the Ophthalmology department, died May 4. Donovan worked at Duke from 1990 to 1994.

Mae I. White, a former Duke employee, died on May 8. White worked at Duke from 1971 to 1998.

Joan Jones, a former employee in the Audiovisual Education- Medical Art department, died on May 9. Jones worked at Duke from 1977 to 1992.

Eula Patterson, a former hospital laundry worker, died May 4. Patterson worked at Duke from 1965 to 1983.

Gay Llewellyn, a former student union employee, died May 25. Llewellyn worked at Duke from 1967 to 1987.

Doris Newton, a former medical center engineering and operations employee, died May 7. Newton worked at Duke from 1969 to 2006.

Rosa McClain, a former dining services employee in the Oak Room, died May 8. McClain worked at Duke from 1959-1994.

James Lipscomb, a former medical center parking employee, died May 9. Lipscomb worked at Duke from 1987 to 1999.

Shelton Duncan, a pulmonary procedures employee, died May 10. Duncan started work at Duke in 1990.

Billy Ray, a former transportation employee, died May 10. Ray worked at Duke from 1967 to 2009.

Artis Gregory, a former maintenance employee, died May 11. Gregory worked at Duke from 1972 to 1987.

William Brantley, a former maintenance employee, died May 16. Brantley worked at Duke from 1974 to 1990.

Brenda Rhodes, a former health system environmental services employee, died May 21. Rhodes worked at Duke from 1975 to 2004.

April

Helen Harper, a former medical center materials control employee, died April 2. Harper worked at Duke from 1962 to 1977.

John Costlow,former marine lab director, died April 12. Costlow worked at Duke from 1950 to 1991.

William E. White Sr.,a former medical center plant operations employee, died April 26. White worked at Duke from 1987 to 2001.

Homer Phelps, a former medical center maintenance department employee, died April 4. Phelps worked at Duke from 1986 to 1999.

Marjorie Watkins, a former botany employee, died April 11. Watkins worked at Duke from 1956 to 1982.

Eve Sedgwick, a former English professor, died April 12. Sedgewick taught at Duke from 1988-1998.

March

Grant Byas, a former autopsy services employee, died March 25. Byas worked at Duke from 2990 to 2001.

Sally Knight, a former East Campus Operations employee, died March 26. Knight worked at Duke from 1972 to 1995.

Robert Parker, a former medical center engineering and operations maintenance employee, died March 29. Parker worked at Duke from 1981 to 2003.

Jacqueline McKinney, a Children's Health Center employee, died March 3. McKinney began work at Duke in 2003.

Ruby Brewer, a former environmental services employee at the Eye Center, died March 9. Brewer worked at Duke from 1983 to 1995.

Valerie Walker, a Duke Hospital employee, died March 10. Walker began work at Duke in 1978.

Gary Gentry, an operating room employee, died March 15. Gentry began work at Duke in 1988.

Linda A. Cleveland, a former pathology research employee, died March 17. Cleveland worked at Duke from 1973 to 2005.

John Hope Franklin, a James B. Duke Professor emeritus of history, died March 25. Franklin joined the Duke faculty in 1982.

February 2009

Louise Long, a former employee on surgical unit 3300, died Feb. 2. Long worked at Duke from 1953 to 1993.

Lloyd Averett, a former surgical instrument shop worker, died Feb. 6. Averett worked at Duke from 1959 to 1984.

Mary Sanders, a former new born nursery employee, died Feb. 12. Sanders worked at Duke from 1950 to 1985.

Clara Godwin, a former Divinity employee, died Feb. 17. Godwin worked at Duke from 1969 to 1993.

Loretta Avery, a radiation oncology employee, died Feb. 19. Avery started work at Duke in 1973.

Peggy Franklin, a former capture charge and billing employee, died Feb. 21. Franklin worked at Duke from 1970 to 2005.

Willie Dunlap, a former Duke Health employee, died Feb. 23. Dunlap worked at Duke from 1967 to 1981.

James Minnis, a former blood gas lab worker, died Feb. 25. Minnis worked at Duke from 1964 to 1986.

Nancy Tyndall, a former benefits employee, died Feb. 27. Tyndall worked at Duke from 1956 to 1999.

January 2009

Mary Cox, a former Perkins Library employee, died Jan. 18. Cox worked at Duke from 1953 to 1976.

Charles Reich, a rheumatology employee, died Jan. 5. Reich began work at Duke in 2002.

Karen B. Formo, a Duke psychology employee, died Jan. 10. Formo had worked at Duke since 1986.

Barbara Jones, a Duke Homecare employee, died Jan. 15. Jones started working at Duke in 1969.

Robert Thompson, a swim coach and athletics department employee, died Jan. 25. Thompson began work at Duke in 1978,

Nancy Whaley, a former worker in the office of the surgery chairman, died Jan. 28. Whaley worked at Duke from 1961 to 1990.

Myrtle Briggs, a former patient escort employee, died Jan. 29. Briggs worked at Duke from 1970 to 1983.