University obituaries

December 2007

Kelso Ray, a former maintenance employee, died Dec. 1. Ray worked at Duke from 1966 to 1991.

Rosalind Kaplan, a former employee in the office of Trinity College academic deans, died Dec. 3. Kaplan worked at duke from 1975 to 1997.

Alvin Hatley, who worked in the Eye Center Business Office, died Dec. 5. Hatley began working at Duke in 1982.

Lether Mangum, a former employee on medical unit 8100, died Dec. 11. Mangum worked at Duke from 1965 to 1996.

Annie Snipes, a former medical employee, died Dec. 11. Snipes worked at Duke from 1970 to 1985.

Bessie Norwood, a former DUAP employee in Henderson, died Dec. 12. Norwood worked at Duke from 1967 to 2000.

Athos Ottolenghi, a former professor of pharmacology, died Dec. 23. Ottolenghi taught at Duke from 1953 to 1993.

Martha Hawley, a former surgical PDC employee, died Dec. 31. Hawley worked at Duke from 1953 to 1987.

November 2007

Laura Hespeth, a former East Campus worker, died Nov. 17. Hespeth worked at Duke from 1958 to 1970.

Kay Fisher, a former TelCom employee, died Nov. 15. Fisher worked at Duke from 1963 to1996.

Ruby Masser, a retired Ob-Gyn nursing employee, died Nov. 4. Masser worked at Duke from 1947 to 1972.

Jessica Palmer, clinical operations director for General Medicine, died Nov. 4. Palmer started work at Duke in 1998.

Betty Council, a retired clinic lab support service employee, died Nov. 5. Council worked at Duke from 1956 to 1994.

Juanita Nance, a former East Campus employee, died Nov. 6. Nance worked at Duke from 1979 to 2003.

Zenobia Harden, a retired pediatrics employee, died Nov. 7. Harden worked at Duke from 1959 to 1994.

Sterling Holloway, a retired patient nutritional food employee, died Nov. 8. Holloway worked at Duke from 1990 to 2001.

Marjorie Brown, a retired football employee, died Nov. 13. Brown worked at Duke from 1954 to 2000.

Edwin Walters, a pharmacology and cancer biology employee, died Nov. 13. Walters started work at Duke in 2000.

October 2007

Geraldine Chappell, a retired physiology department employee, died Oct. 9. Chappell worked at Duke from 1972 to 1987.

Janie Evans, a retired pathology employee, died Oct. 21. Evans worked at Duke from 1965 to 1983.

Carol Farrell, a Division of Social Work employee, died Oct. 30. Farrell started work at Duke in 2005.

Carolyn Jones, a former sterile processing employee, died Oct. 6. Jones worked at Duke from 1970 to 2000.

Anna Neal, a former sterile processing employee, died Oct. 18. Jones worked at Duke from 1970 to 2007.

Clinton Mills, an employee in the Duke Operating Room, died Oct. 26. Mills started work at Duke in 1973.

September 2007

William Baker, a retired DUMC design office employee, died Sept. 26. Baker worked at Duke from 1970 to 1986.

Willie Patterson, who worked in Lab Animal Resources, died on September 2, 2007. Patterson had worked at Duke from 1966 to 1987.

 

Joshua Warren, a senior research associate in the Biochemistry Department, died on September 2. Warren had worked at Duke since 2001.

 

Margaret Dixon, who worked in Material Support, died on September 4, 2007. Dixon worked at Duke from 1956 to 1987.

 

Jerry Rimmer, who worked in Facilities Management, died on September 9. Rimmer had worked at Duke since March, 2007.

 

Josephine P. Sherman, who worked at the Duke Credit Union, died on September 9, 2007. Sherman was employed by Duke from 1971 to 1989.

 

Caroline Welz-Voegele, who was a laboratory manager in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, died on September 12. Welz-Voegele had worked at Duke since August, 2006.

 

Gloria Reid, who worked in Ischemia-Support-DCRI, died on September 15. Reid had worked at Duke since 2005.

 

John Leslie Artley, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died on Sept. 27. He joined the faculty in 1955 and retired in 1980.

August 2007

Dorothy Fenner, who worked in Environmental Services at DUHS, died on August 7, 2007. Fenner was employed at Duke from 1980 to 2003.

 

Johnsie Carrington, who worked in Housekeeping on the West Campus, died on August 23, 2007. Carrington had been employed at Duke from 1967 until 1992.

 

Marie Scoggins, who worked in Environmental Services, died on August 30, 2007. Scoggins had been employed by Duke from 1970 to 1993.

 

Marcy Speer, who was the director of the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University Medical Center, died on August 4. Speer joined the Duke faculty in 1985.

 

Todd Johnson, who worked in Vascular Interventional Radiology, died on August 4. Johnson worked at Duke since 2006.

 

Elizabeth Clipp, a professor of nursing, died on August 5. Clipp joined the Duke faculty in 1985

Dorothy L. Collins, who worked in the Delivery Room, died on August 10. Collins was employed by Duke from 1966 until her retirement in 1988.

 

John Richards, a professor of history, died on Aug. 23. Richards joined the Duke faculty in 1977.

 

July 2007

Rachel Jones, who worked in Medical Center Housekeeping, died on July 12, 2007. Jones was employed at Duke from 1947 until 1980.

 

Charlotte Corbin died on July 13, 2007. Corbin was employed in Alumni Affairs from 1935 until 1977.

 

Sylvia Nelson, who worked in radiology, died July 29. Nelson had worked at Duke since 1991.

 

Christine Smith, who worked in Central Pharmaceutical, died on July 2. Smith worked at Duke from 1968 to 1984.

 

Alberta D. Middlebrooks, who worked at Sea Level, died on July 3. Middlebrooks worked at Duke from 1966 to 1983.

 

Lauralyne Thrope, who worked in Pathology, died on July 6. Thrope worked at Duke from 1962 to 1991.

 

Gary G. Bateman died on July 16. Bateman worked in the Maintenance Department from 1973 to 1988.

 

James H. Cash died on July 16. Cash worked on vending machines for Duke from 1955 to 1995.

 

James A. Brown died on July 20. Brown had been employed by Environmental Services/Parking Garage since 1984.

 

Ruth H. Wagner, who worked in the Mail Room, died on July 22. Wagner worked at Duke from 1956 to 1978.

 

Sheryll Snider, who worked in pathology, died on July 25. Snider had been employed by Duke since 1973.

 

Gail Novick, an employee with Staff and Family Programs, died on July 29. Novick had worked at Duke since 1979.

 

June 2007

Pauline S. Eakes, who worked in Central Pharmaceutical, died on June 25. Eakes worked at Duke from 1980 to 1989.

 

Lucille Klutzz, who worked with Community Health Sciences, died on June 30. Klutzz worked at Duke from 1970 to 1976.

 

Sandra G. McNeil, who worked in dermatology, died on June 27. McNeil worked at Duke from 1969 to 1989.

 

George Smith died on June 4. Smith had been employed by Duke since 1979 in the Alumni & Development System.

 

Murtis Burnette, who worked in Cardiac Catheterization, died on June 6. Burnette was employed by Duke from 1973 to 2001.

 

Dorothy Barden, who worked in Surgical Unit 2100, died on June 14. Barden worked at Duke from 1983 to 2005.

 

Peggy M. Brandon, who worked in the Custodial Services department, died on June 20. Brandon was employed by Duke from 1954 to 1995.

 

May 2007

Nora Westlake, who worked in the Medical Center Office of Communication, died on May 20. Westlake had been employed by Duke since 1990.

 

Edith Skinner, who was employed in the Psychology Department, died on May 21. Skinner worked at Duke from 1962 to 1985.

 

Roscoe Graham, who worked full-time at Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1978, and volunteered on a part-time basis until recently, died on May 6.

 

Arnetta H. Holmes, who worked in the OB Unit-N-5700 died on May 9. Holmes was employed by Duke from 1967 to 1994.

 

Mary Alice Putnam Creason, a lecturer and introductory physics lab director in the Department of Physics, died on May 12. Creason had been employed by Duke since 1999.

 

Naomi S. Flowers, who worked in Sterile Processing, died on May 14. Flowers was employed by Duke from 1970 to 1989.

 

Frank Borchardt, a longtime German studies professor, died May 14. Borchardt taught at Duke since 1971.

Lucille Garner, who worked in the Campus Business Office, died on May 15. Garner worked at Duke from 1970 to 1982.

 

Gertrude Dameron, who worked in Medicine/Gastroenterology, died May 23. Dameron had been employed at Duke since 1974.

 

Sterling Miller, who worked in the Carpentry Shop, died on May 25. Miller was employed by Duke from 1960 to 1982.

 

Anne Dickinson, who worked in PDC Benefits, died on May 25. Dickinson began working at Duke in 1979.

 

Altha T. Fuller, who was employed by Duke from 1955 to 1980, died on May 29.

 

April 2007

Edward Young, who worked with Environmental Services, died on April 9. Young worked at Duke from 1979 to 1996.

 

Abner S. Mason, who worked in Duke University Hospital on the Minot ward, died on April 26. Mason was employed by Duke from 1969 to 1993.

 

Shirley Burwell, an employee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, died on April 20. Burwell started working at Duke in 1993.

 

Ronald W. Ray, who worked in DUH Clinical Engineering, died on April 17. Ray was employed by Duke from 1983 to 2006.

 

Thomas F. Nobles, who worked in Transit Operations, died on April 14. Nobles worked at Duke from 1962 to 1993.

 

Bertha R. Kent, who worked in the Department of Medicine, died on April 10. Kent was employed at Duke from 1954 to 1981.

 

Ida Downey, who worked on the West Campus, died on April 9. Downey worked at Duke from 1971 to 1986.

 

Melissa McLean, a food employee working in the Great Hall, died on April 8. McLean started working at Duke in 1981.

 

March 2007

Kenneth P. Martin, who worked in Central Resources, died on March 30. Martin was employed by Duke from 1992 to 2001.

 

Eleanor Walker, who worked in Medical Records, died on March 26. Walker was employed by Duke from 1965 to 1979.

 

Margaret M. Williams, who worked in the Operating Room, died on March 23. Williams was employed by Duke from 1951 to 1997.

 

Loretta S. Waller, who worked in the Department of Medicine, died on March 1. She was employed at Duke from 1968 to 1993.

Beatrice Jones died on March 2. She worked in the Special Medical Unit and was employed at Duke from 1965 to 1976.

Richard Odom, who worked in the Maintenance Department, Medical Center Division, died on March 9. Odom worked at Duke from 1978 to 2000.

Elizabeth King, who worked in the General Psychiatry Division, died on March 11. She was employed at Duke from 1965 to 1997.

Glennie Hunt, who worked in Environmental Services, died on March 13. Hunt began working for Duke in 1977.

Peggy Pate, who worked in the Department of Medicine, died on March 14. She was employed at Duke from 1986 to 2006.

Samuel Wilson, who worked in Dietetics, died on March 15. Wilson worked at Duke from 1939 to 1979.

Shirley Moore, who worked in Nurse Recruitment, died on March 18. Moore began work at Duke in 1993.

Johnnie T. McDonald, who worked in the Division of Lab Animal Resources, died on March 22. McDonald was employed at Duke from 1965 to 1987.

Gladys R. Brown, who worked in the Surgery Unit, died on March 24. She was employed at Duke from 1964 to 1985.

Maude Evans, who worked in Housekeeping Management, died on March 25. Evans was employed at Duke from 1950 to 1974.

February 2007

Madeline T. Jeffries, who worked in the Surgery/Urology Division, died on February 21. Jeffries was employed at Duke from 1975 to 1996

 

Sue N. Banks, who worked at Medical Private Diagnostic Clinic, died on Feb. 17. Banks was employed by Duke from 1983 to 1987.

 

Eugene Whitaker, a worker in Radiology-Mobile MR, died on Feb. 27. Whitaker joined Duke in 2006.

 

Allie Daniel, who worked in Environmental Services, died on Feb. 20. Daniel was employed by Duke from 1981 to 1994.

 

Edna Bailey, who worked in the Pediatrics Department, died on February 8. She was employed at Duke from 1964 to 1980.

Martha Wertz, who worked in the Psychiatric Social Services, died on February 9. She was employed at Duke from 1960 to 1984.

James Street, who worked in General Medicine, died on February 27. Street was employed at Duke from 1967 to 1989.

Mildred Bolden, an employee at Highland Hospital, died February 1. Bolden began work in 1966 and retired in 1989.

Ella L. Goss, who worked at Williams Psych Inpatient, died on February 2. Goss worked at Duke from 1959 to 1994.

Helen Washington, who worked at the Cambridge Inn, died February 6, 2007. Washington worked from 1958 to 1992.

Dorothy W. Ray, who worked in the Central Collection Service, died February 8, 2007. Ray began work in 1970 and retired in 1991.

Louvenia Crawford, who worked at Duke from 1967 to 1984, died on February 12.

Joyce Turrentine, who worked on the West Campus, died February 20, 2007. Turrentine began work at Duke in 1963 and retired in 1993.

Robin Hart, who worked in Ophthalmology, died on February 20. Hart began work at Duke in 1999

L. C. Iglehart, an employee in Transit Operations, died February 24. Iglehart worked at Duke from 1977 to 1996.

January 2007

Ernest Caldwell, who worked in Material Support, died on Jan. 26. Caldwell was employed by Duke from 1962 to 1981.

 

David Richardson, an employee of DCRI, died Jan. 2. Richardson began work at Duke in 2005.

Harold Daves, a former Duke employee, died on Jan. 4. Daves worked at Duke from 1966 to 1981.

Eva Jones, an employee in Environmental Services, died Jan. 6. Jones began work in 1979 and retired in 2002.

Dorothy Moore, who worked in the Provost's Office, died Jan. 6. Moore worked at Duke from 1956 to 1983.

Charlene Hundley, who worked in Anesthesia—Business & Support Services, died Jan 12. Hundley began working at Duke in 1988.

Lori Pinkerton, who worked in the office of the Associate Vice President of FMD, died Jan. 15. Pinkerton began work at Duke in 2005.

Robert Evans Jr., who worked in maintenance, died Jan. 13. He worked at Duke from 1955 to 1979.

Emma Blackburn, who worked at Highland Hospital, died Jan. 26. Blackburn worked for Duke from 1971 to 1981.

Patricia Ray died on January 28. Ray worked at Duke from 1997 to 2006.

Helen Howard, who worked in Clinical Research, died January 31. Howard worked at Duke from 1942 to 1974.

December 2006

Jennie Fish, who worked in the Rheumatologic and Immunological Division, died on December 12, 2006. Fish began work in 1956 and died in 1996.

Joyce L. Farris, who worked in the library, died on Dec. 12, 2006. She was employed by Duke from 1968 to 1992.

Doris L. Wilson, who worked in Central Pharmaceutical, died Dec. 12, 2006. Wilson worked at Duke from 1966 to 1995.

Carole H. Browning, who worked in the School of Nursing, died Dec. 31, 2006. Browning began work at Duke in 1968 and retired in 2000.

Elma Y. Harrill, a former nurse at Duke, died Dec. 5. Harrill began work March 1, 1971, and retired April 30, 1985.

Nannie M. Parker, who worked in Environmental Services in the Baker House, died Dec. 8. Parker began work August 27, 1973, and retired July 31, 1998

Virginia Pruitt, a former Duke employee, died Dec. 12. Pruitt began work August 1, 1966, and retired Sept. 30, 2002.

Nellie C. Ball, a former employee in the Material Support department, died Dec. 14. Ball began work April 15, 1952 and retired Dec. 31, 1979.

Dora Watson, who worked in Housekeeping, died Dec. 23. Watson began work Sept. 9, 1974 and retired Dec. 31, 1993.

Kay Averett, who worked in Sterile Processing, died Dec. 25. Averett began work July 1, 1959.

Joseph Burt, who worked in Surgery, died Dec. 27. Burt began work March 1, 1961, and retired June 30, 1976.

Julie Painter, who worked Fuqua School of Business admissions, died Dec. 31. Painter began work April 30, 2001.

November 2006

John T. Rowland, who was employed in the Pharmacology Department until his retirement in 1994, died on November 22, 2006. Rowland worked at Duke from 1966 to 1994.

 

Dura Holcombe, who worked at the Central Nursing Facility, died on Nov. 10, 2006. Holcombe was employed by Duke from 1980 to 1989.

 

Juanita A. Hill, who worked at Duke from 1967 to 1992, died on Nov. 24, 2006.

 

Maria Whitehead, who worked in Field Hockey, died Nov. 1, 2006. Whitehead began working at Duke in February, 2006.

Peggy East, who worked in Economics, died Nov. 11, 2006. East began work in 1979 and retired in 1997.

Betty B. Martin, an employee in the Bursar's Office, died Nov. 25, 2006. She worked at Duke from 1966 to 1990.

Bayard F. Edgerton, who worked in Autopsy Services, died Nov. 4. Edgerton began work July 1, 1968 and retired August 31, 1999.

Joan Davis, who worked in the Education Business Office, died Nov. 10. Davis began work at Duke October 8, 1973.

Kathleen Blake, who worked in Physiology, died Nov. 25. Blake began work June 2, 1969 and retired Feb. 28, 1996.

Margaret C. Mickens, a former Duke employee, died Nov. 27. Mickens began work Nov. 1, 1960 and retired Dec. 31, 1989.

Harding W. Bolden, a Duke employee at Highland Hospital, died Nov. 28. Bolden began work Jan. 10, 1962 and retired June 30, 1989.

Ethel Taylor, who worked in Central Production, died Nov. 29. Taylor began work Feb. 5, 1968 and retired Feb. 28, 1988.

October

Samuel Badger, an employee at the mobile catheterization lab, died Oct. 9. Badger began work in 1986.

Lillian Anderson, a former Duke employee, died Oct. 16. She worked at Duke from 1961 to 1970.

Mary F. Long, a former housekeeper, died Oct. 17. Long worked at Duke from 1975 to 1991.

Michael Fehnel, an employee in general radiology, died Oct. 17. Fehnel began work at Duke in 2002.

Billy Newton Sr., a maintenance department employee, died Oct. 22. Newton began work at Duke in 1964.

Alice Bailey, a housekeeper, died Oct. 25. Bailey began work in 1996.

Marlene M. Neal, a former surgical pathology employee, died Oct. 26. Neal worked at Duke from 1969 to 1991.

Willie Haynie, a computation center employee, died Oct. 29. Haynie began work at Duke in 1969.

September

Bessie L. Lowe, a former environmental services employee, died Sept. 4. Lowe worked at Duke from 1978 to 1987.

Carolyn James, an ophthalmology employee, died Sept. 2. James joined Duke in 1974.

Donald Whitworth, a former maintenance employee, died Sept. 4. Whitworth worked at Duke from 1963 to 1980.

John Umstead, a former West Campus housekeeper, died Sept. 5. Umstead worked at Duke from 1980 to 2000.

Lavar Simmons, an employee in computerized tomography, died Sept. 20. Simmons joined Duke in 2005.

August

Carey Floyd Jr., a Duke faculty member for more 20 years, died at home Aug. 28 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 52.

Floyd was born on March 17, 1954, in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree from Eckerd College in Florida and his Ph.D. in physics at Duke University in 1981 in the area of experimental nuclear physics. He took a postdoctoral fellowship at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory in 1982, and a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship in the department of radiology at Duke University Medical Center in 1983. He became a full professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at Duke in 1997.

He made numerous contributions to the science of medical imaging. His early work included important contributions in nuclear medicine, including a pioneering method of reconstructing SPECT images known as the inverse Monte Carlo technique. He then became well known for research efforts in digital radiography, and he established one of the pre-eminent laboratories in the world in the field of computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD). CAD uses artificial intelligence in conjunction with medical images and patient information in order to improve the detection and diagnosis of disease.

One of his last research efforts was a novel combination of nuclear physics and medical imaging, wherein neutrons are used to stimulate gamma emission for the imaging of trace elements in the body. In recognition of his significant scientific contributions, Floyd was awarded a lifetime career achievement award from Duke's Department of Radiology at on July 14, 2006.

Floyd served the scientific community well in many capacities, including several decades on grant review study sections at the National Institutes of Health. He was director of the Digital Imaging Research Division within the department of radiology at Duke from 1992 until 2004. He also was co-director of the Duke Tumor Registry, and was involved in the establishment of the new medical physics graduate program at Duke.

He also mentored dozens of individual students over the past two decades. In recognition of his mentorship, a new graduate fellowship at Duke was established in his honor. The Carey E. Floyd Jr. Graduate Fellowship will be administered by the Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke, and will provide future generations of outstanding students the distinction of being named Floyd Fellows.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Floyd; his father, Carey E. Floyd; and his stepmother, Ann Herbert Floyd of Nashville, Tennessee.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made in Carey's memory to the Carey E. Floyd, Jr., Graduate Fellowship, in care of the Medical Physics Graduate Program, Duke University Medical Center, Suite 101, 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705. Letters of condolence may be sent to the home.

Elizabeth Foster, a former employee at the Center for International Studies, died Aug. 31. Foster worked at Duke from 1967 to 1989.

Calvin Brewer, a former radiology employee, died Aug. 2. Brewer worked at Duke from 1969 to 2005.

Annie Louise Yates, a former environmental services employee, died Aug. 10. Yates worked at Duke from 1962 to 1986.

Carmen Lucaveche, a cell biology administration employee, died Aug. 21. Lucaveche started work at Duke in 1974.

Margaret Bittle, a former environmental services employee, died Aug. 29. Bittle worked at Duke from 1959 to 1977.

Louise Harvey, a former physical plant employee, died Aug. 30. Harvey worked at Duke from 1957 to 1976.

July

Fannie E. Daniels, a former worker on medical unit 9100, died July 26. Daniels worked at Duke from 1979 to 1988.

Gladys Davis, a former Sea Level Hospital employee, died July 18. Davis worked at Duke from 1976 to 1992.

Helen Baumann, a Perkins Library employee, died July 22. Baumann started work at Duke in 1979.

Joann Richards, a transfusion unit employee, died July 28. Richards started work at Duke in 1990.

Elmer Murphy, a Life and Housing Services employee, died July 9. Murphy started work at Duke in 1988.

Ada Curtis, a former physical plant employee, died July 18. Curtis worked at Duke from 1952 to 1977.

Paul Fulton, a former dining halls employee, died July 18. Fulton worked at Duke from 1957 to 1987.

Sarah Black, a former physical plant employee, died July 19. Black worked at Duke from 1958 to 1984.

June

Elizabeth Cavanaugh, a DCRI employee, died June 30. Cavanaugh started work at Duke in 1997.

Casco McLean, a former West Campus Café employee, died June 3. McLean worked at Duke from 1958 to 1994.

Wayne Holt, a Pratt School of Engineering employee, died June 4. Holt joined Duke in 1991.

Thomas Raidy, a radiation physics employee, died June 4. Raidy joined Duke in 2003.

Linda Noyes, a psychiatry instructor in the Alcohol and Addictions Program, died June 6. Noyes joined Duke in 2000.

Myra McDonald, a former HighlandHospital employee, died June 18. McDonald worked at Highland from 1956 to 1969.

Kitty Flowers, a former PDC employee, died June 14. Flowers worked at Duke from 1968 to 1985.

Elma Daniel, a former Emergency Department employee, died June 19. Daniel worked at Duke from 1954 to 1972.

Evelyn Salter, a former Sea Level Hospital employee, died June 19. Salter worked at Duke from 1969 to 1997.

Everett Conley, a former nursing employee, died June 22. Conley worked at Duke from 1960 to 1981.

Nancy O'Guin, an operating rooms employee, died June 22. O'Guin joined Duke in 1990.

Phillip Jones, an associate professor in the Pratt School of Engineering, died June 24. Jones joined Duke in 1977.

May

Margaret M. Moore, a former employee in the Office of the Chancellor for Health Affairs, died May 21. Moore worked at Duke from 1990 to 1999.

Doreen Lockhart, a former OB_GYN employee, died May 3. Lockhart worked at Duke from 1975 to 1987.

Ethel Rochelle, a former sociology employee, died May 29. Rochelle worked at Duke from 1955 to 1988.

Margaret Cannada, a former brace shop employee, died May 8. Cannada worked at Duke from 1958 to 1985.

Anna Mayes, a former food services employee, died May 1. Mayes worked at Duke from 1976 to 1991.

William Crenshaw, a former FMD groundskeeper, died May 4. Crenshaw worked at Duke from 1964 to 1999.

Luellen Scott, a former Urology Clinic employee, died May 22. Scott worked at Duke from 1960 to 1991.

Morris Johnson Jr., a former housekeeper, died May 8. Johnson worked at Duke from 1966 to 2005.

Mary Bishop, a former pediatric unit employee, died April 28. Bishop worked at Duke from 1976 to 1996.

Beverly Ellen, a former surgical pathology lab employee, died April 22. Ellen worked at Duke from 1988 to 2006.

Mary Hawkins, a former law school employee, died May 30. Hawkins worked at Duke from 1980 to 2003.

Valinda Williamson, a former Division of Rheumatology and Genetic Disease employee, died May 30. Williamson worked at Duke from 1964 to 1992.

Alease Tiller, a former treasurer's office employee, died April 23. Tiller worked at Duke from 1947 to 1981.

Polly Faison, a former Hanes House employee, died May 24. Faison worked at Duke from 1953 to 1971.

Susan Zagiba, a OESO biological safety employee, died May 23. Zagiba joined duke in 1997.

Lee Ann Belongie, a Duke University Associated Physicians employee, died May 1. Belongie joined Duke in 1999.

April 2006

Vickie Barnette, a hospital employee who begain working in sterile processing in 1968, died April 6.

Cecil Eakes, a former environmental services employee at the EyeCenter, died March 27. Eakes worked at Duke from 1987 to 1999.

Mattie Best, a former medical units employee, died April 9. Best worked at Duke from 1962 to 1982.

Louise Gilmore, a former pharmacology employee, died April 16. Gilmore worked at Duke from 1977 to 1992.

Annie Allen, a former pediatrics specialty, died April 22. Allen worked at Duke from 1960 to 1999.

Genaters Lawrence, a former physical plant employee, died April 22. Lawrence worked at Duke from 1958 to 1981.

Michael Reeder, accounting manager for DCRI, died April 23. Reeder joined Duke in 1999.

Lonita Pope, a former Department of Medicine employee, died April 24. Pope worked at Duke from 1964 to 1981.

March

Lorraine Taylor, a former children's primary care employee, died March 18. Taylor worked at Duke from 1977 to 2003.

Gladys Lawrence, a former Duke South Administration employee, died March 23. Lawrence worked at Duke from 1966 to 2001.

Coy Lockamy, a former medical center maintenance worker, died Feb. 24. Lockamy worked at Duke from 1961 to 1992.

Jerry Joyner, a former patient nutritional food specialist, died March 8. Joyner worked at Duke from 1975 to 1997.

Kathleen Murdaugh, a former admissions employee, died March 9. Murdaugh worked at Duke from 1961 to 1990.

Oscar Barber, a former medical center parking employee, died March 7. Barber worked at Duke from 1978 to 2004.

Mary Young, a former gastroenterology employee, died March 6. Young worked at Duke from 1960 to 1987.

Artie Fulton, a former central supply employee, died March 16. Fulton worked at Duke from 1962 to 1977.

Mary Stevens, a former Duke laundry employee, died March 26. Stevens worked at Duke from 1981 to 1991.

Diane Wilson, a nursing HUC employee, died March 11. Wilson joined Duke in 1970.

Gene Hubert, a former DHTS senior information technology analyst, died March 6. Hubert joined Duke in 2004.

February

Deborah McCallum, an employee in Patient Visitor Services, died Feb. 1. McCallum joined Duke in 1984.

Nelson F. Barbour, a former university maintenance employee, died Feb. 2. Barbour worked at Duke from 1981 to 1990.

Willie Helen Brown, a former University Stores employee, died Feb. 5. Brown worked at Duke from 1966 to 1985.

Douglas O'Neal, a biomedical employee in the health system, died Feb. 6. O'Neal joined Duke in 1999.

Edna R. Ferrell, a former general & thoracic surgery employee, died Feb. 8. Ferrell worked at Duke from 1971 to 1994.

Vicki Andrews, an employee at Triangle Family Practice, died Feb. 9. Andrews joined Duke in 2001.

Dora Daye, a university housekeeper, died Feb. 9. Daye joined Duke in 1977.

Sarah Barbee, a former hospital laundry employee, died Feb. 10. Barbee worked at Duke from 1966 to 1978.

Louis M. Keir, a former business administration employee, died Feb. 10. Keir worked at Duke from 1958 to 1977.

Alfred Haacke, an employee with the Office of Information Technology, died Feb. 12. Haacke joined Duke in 1997.

Arnold Winstead, an employee with university turf management, died Feb. 19. Winstead joined Duke in 1993.

Virginia Liles, a cardiology nurse, died Feb. 14. Liles joined Duke in 2001.

Curly Bailey, a former biochemistry employee, died Feb. 20. Bailey worked at Duke from 1951 to 1984.