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For a time, he worked at the post office, where he showed off his knowledge of geography by naming all the places on the postcards just from the pictures.\n\nA student of anarchism, Frank joined Students for a Democratic Society while in college and was active in efforts to end the Vietnam War and realize social change from the ground up. He spent time in Southside Chicago working as a community organizer and got to know the city by delivering newspapers in the dark of pre-dawn.       \n\nIn 1971, he married Lee (Coventry) Stanley, whom he’d met at Michigan State. In 1972, the couple and their twin sons, Dylan and Gabe, moved to Chapel Hill, where Frank pursued graduate studies. They had two more sons, Aaron and Noah.     \n\nA life-long educator, Frank taught American History at Virginia State University before becoming a learning skills instructor at UNC’s Learning Center, where he spent more than thirty years helping students succeed academically. After a brief retirement, he continued to work with students at the Carolina Covenant. \n\nA music lover and avid reader, Frank was a regular at local record and bookshops, and amassed an extensive collection of folk, blues, and world music. \n\nPassionate about UNC basketball, he could be heard from down the block cheering on the Heels, or shouting at them, with his sons and best friend, Mimi. \n\nFor years, Frank and the family vacationed with Mimi and friends on Ocracoke, one of his happy places, less for love of the beach (he wasn’t a beach person) than for the many good times had there with friends.    \n\nHe loved getting together with the Learning Center gang for Bad Movie nights, which he hosted for over thirty years. The movies were always bad, the company always good, and the house always full of hilarity (and a fair bit of silliness, too).  \n\nHis laugh was infectious, though at times of such intensity as to threaten personal peril. On two occasions, his son Noah feared Frank might actually die laughing. Both times, thankfully, he lived to laugh again.     \n\nLike his mom, Frank was a marathon phone conversationalist, never missing an opportunity to talk late into the night with a family member, friend, or former student. He also shared his mom’s fondness for Dove chocolates, a stash of which he kept in the door of his fridge. His youngest grandchild, Ava, knew just where, and knew to help herself (and bring one for Zaidy).   \n\nHis barbeque grilled chicken was about the best thing ever. His homemade spaghetti wasn’t bad either. \n\nDuring COVID, he continued to see students remotely until diagnosed with stage-four cancer. Though never big on exercise, he worked his tail off in physical therapy, regaining the ability to walk without assistance despite cancer-riddled bones. He hoped to resume work and to have more time with his grandkids.  \n\nA reader of the obituaries, he loved learning that someone had lived into their 90s; a ripe old age, he’d say. Though he didn’t get to ripen quite that long, he lived a rich life, full of people, purpose, and pleasures. He’ll be sorely missed.  \n \nFrank is survived by his four sons, sister Marsha, and three grandchildren, Jonah, Gwen, and Ava.  \n\nA memorial service is being planned for Spring, 2022."}},"city":"Durham","county":"Durham","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/19/2021","age":73,"user_updated":true,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"45064d06-37b4-5ea0-853a-149e1d28c5a2","slug":"article-11","name":"Sean Shannon","content":{"data":{"content":"Sean Shannon left this world on September 18th, 2021 to become a member of the Angel's choir. Though he was with us for just 36 years, he touched the lives of everyone he met.  He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.\nSean was the son of Mike and Toni  Shannon of Hillsborough, NC, and the brother of Krista Lawson (John) of Clemmons NC, and the Grandson of Nancy Tempesta of Hillsborough, NC. He also leaves behind two beautiful nieces."}},"city":"Hillsborough","county":"Orange","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/18/2021","age":35,"user_updated":true,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"954fe74a-98b5-5f24-899c-fbc14c37f544","slug":"article-16","name":"Jesus Mendoza Martinez","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Grifton","county":"Pitt","state":"North Carolina ","deathdate":"09/18/2021","age":44,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"66fbd65f-4c76-50a8-980f-5fff336eb891","slug":"justina-garcia","name":"Justina Garcia","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh ","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/17/2021","age":73,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"a356d70f-e880-5b66-b26b-91ebac193277","slug":"article-18","name":"Deanna Jean Gatrel","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Raleigh ","county":"Wake ","state":"North Carolina ","deathdate":"09/17/2021","age":60,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"4551c77e-5fb2-57d3-9eda-3923a6b5a42a","slug":"article-9","name":"Brenda Joyce Stanczak","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Wake Forest","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":77,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"f561986a-62af-5aa0-8264-1bb45ded7ff4","slug":"2021-09-16-Coy-Nobles","name":"Coy Eugene Nobles","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Rocky Mount","county":"Edgecombe","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":76,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"ec566f86-fb02-5118-aade-0d098717cda8","slug":"2021-09-16-Victoria-Lehman","name":"Victoria Dale Lehman","content":{"data":{"content":""}},"city":"Franklinton","county":"Franklin","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":65,"user_updated":false,"image":null}},{"node":{"id":"4766626e-6579-56b0-bccd-e39e6c839ee3","slug":"article-10","name":"Pamela Jean Blomquist","content":{"data":{"content":"Pamela (Pam) Jean Sealy Blomquist\nJuly 19, 1944 - September 16, 2021\n\nPamela Jean Blomquist of Zebulon, North Carolina passed away peacefully in hospice care on Thursday, September the 16th at the age of 77. Pam departed this world exactly at high noon, with her husband and her daughter at her side. In this time of Covid they were so blessed to be by Pam’s side through this part of her journey. She left hospice draped with the American flag, commemorating her time served in the United States Navy.\n\nShe began her path as a hair stylist in childhood with unconventional bang stylings for herself and her little sister, indelibly captured in photography, eventually leading her to beautician school after high school. Over the years she expertly cut her family's hair, as well as that of her friends, and often turned her expert hand to her own carefully styled hair. Eventually her then-teenage son insisted his then-teenage sister take over his styling when fashion and vanity outgrew Mom's skills. Her daughter continues the tradition with her own family.\n\nPam next found herself drawn to service in the Navy, where she met Jack. \"I didn't like him at first,\" she often quipped, \"but he grew on me, and then I fell madly in love with him.\"\nGeorgia Girl meets New York Boy, and like two intertwined trees, they grew together for 58 years.\n\nPam and Jack married young and lived their lives together in 5 different states. They proudly raised their son, Jack, and their daughter, Wendy, eventually calling North Carolina home.\n\nShe was an excellent list maker and note taker, teaching her daughter that even vacuuming could be written down and crossed off. She always wrote in a lovely southern cursive hand, which was not inherited by her children or her grandchildren. That magnificent “P” that looks like a Lima bean will always be the defining way of how one spells Pamela.\n\nShe enjoyed playing card games with friends and family, and unfortunately takes with her the mysterious rules of the game Double Solitaire, which she sometimes played with her daughter after school, if she wasn't beating her pants off at Gin Rummy.\n\nPam often fondly remembered summers spent with her beloved Aunt Myrt, and many a time spoke of their close bond. Their relationship gave Pam a solid loving foundation which graced her with the inner core that was needed to navigate a sometimes tumultuous upbringing, and also gave her the drive, confidence, and skillset to follow in her footsteps as a restaurateur.\n\nPam was an excellent Southern cook, often fondly remembering learning to cook from the time she could reach the stovetop while standing on a chair. She also learned to adapt when she married that boy from Long Island all those years ago, serving their family a wonderful mix of both Northern and Southern dishes. She made the best fried chicken ever, serving up her own recipe at her namesake restaurants, PJ’s Barbecue and Ribs, in Raleigh, which she owned for several years with her husband.\n\nShe dearly loved to sew, and also to both knit and crochet. As an expert seamstress she made many lovely and intricate clothes for her family and herself over the years, as well as beautiful items for their home and their camper. She passed that love of sewing, and of other needlework, on to her daughter. Pam truly had a natural eye for color and design. A bouquet of flowers never entered the home that wasn't transformed into an elegant display. She delighted in wrapping gift packages that were almost too beautiful to open, and decorating for Christmas. She enjoyed painting with both oils and acrylics on canvas, working with oil pastels, as well as decorative painting and many other crafts. She enjoyed sunbathing, trailer camping, and one of her greatest joys was relaxing around a campfire.\n\nPam gave Better Homes and Gardens stiff competition in the immaculate home department. We're pretty sure that if Heaven has a lobby, she made sure it was well-dusted and all the corners were vacuumed before she could allow herself to relax among the clouds.\n\nPam was predeceased by her son, Jack. She is survived by her loving husband Jack, her daughter Wendy and her husband Ken, three grandsons, her sister Pat and her husband Tommy, her sister-in-law Marge and her husband Joe, her brother-in-law Brian and his wife Nancy.\n\nIn lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a charity which you feel is making this world a better place."}},"city":"Zebulon ","county":"Franklin","state":"North Carolina ","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":77,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/d1fa62df031c07cf2e8e15da8f0ebc72/object_Object_08b8c9aede.jpg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"16162926-7382-5ef8-b274-b421764e9a25","slug":"2021-09-16-David-Shiplett","name":"David Shiplett","content":{"data":{"content":"David Shiplett peacefully passed away on September 16, 2021, in Cary, NC. He was 81. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Charles & Ann Shiplett. Dave was always proud of the time he served in U.S. Army intelligence in Germany. He returned to the states to receive his bachelor's degree from Indiana University. In 1966, he married his true love Cheryll. They raised two children in Indianapolis where he became an avid golfer. He was also a lifelong student of military history and took annual trips with friends to key Civil War sites. Dave was a bright light of love, positivity, and humor to friends and family. He was an active and loving husband, father, and grandfather - whether manning his smoker for a family dinner, playing board games together, or helping a grandchild with a school project. Dave spent his final days surrounded by the family he loved and adored. He is survived by his wife Cheryll; children Michael Shiplett (Misha) and Wendy Moomaw (Scott); grandchildren Megan, Jonathan, Grady, Eli, Abby & Marcelle; and younger sister Donna Brinkley (Jack)."}},"city":"Cary","county":"Chatham","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":81,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/41c15564015cec612d74d9afb1b92234/object_Object_405aabbeb0.jpg"}}}},{"node":{"id":"e2d81427-746a-5185-8225-56c6f1c6d0d4","slug":"2021-09-16-John-Peeler","name":"John Scott Peeler","content":{"data":{"content":"The Eldest of three children, John was born to the late John Senn Peeler and Josephine Miller Peeler in Salisbury, NC.  He has resided in Raleigh since 1990.  After serving in the Air Force, from 1959 to 1963, John volunteered as a firefighter and captain at Parkwood Volunteer Fire Department in Durham, NC, from late 1960s to early 1970s.  John then pursued careers with companies such as IBM, Marriott, and was self employed in book sales until he retired.\n\nJohn was a dedicated member of several Alcoholics Anonymous Clubs and served in several capacities such as treasurer.  John took pride in his sobriety which began before 1990 and lasted to his passing, over 30 years.  John helped many struggling alcoholics get the help they needed.\n\nJohn is survived by his son Scott, granddaughters Madison and Courtney, his son Greg and Greg's wife Misty, and their children Matthew, Anna, and Aaron.  He also leaves behind his sister, Frances Peeler."}},"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake","state":"North Carolina","deathdate":"09/16/2021","age":82,"user_updated":true,"image":{"localFile":{"publicURL":"/static/6fef2aada5791d68084f4b9ad1aa110a/DSC_00454_33e960e454.JPG"}}}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":3768,"numPages":320,"currentPage":315,"numObits":3835,"featured":false}},
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