THURSDAY JANUARY 28 2021 THE 5A Obituaries legacy.com/obituaries/heraldsun SP135386 For information about obituaries appearing in The Herald Sun including signing a guest book, lighting a candle, donating to charity or sending flowers, log on to: Take some time each day to remember those who have passed away. Go to legacy.com/obituaries/heraldsun to search for Obituaries Guest Books Barbee, Wlliam Howard, 84 Durham Jan 22 Burthey Funeral Service Brandon, Wayne, 66 Durham Jan 23 Holloway Memorial Funeral Buie, Henrietta, 83 Las Vegas Jan 23 Scarborough Hargett Burnette, Christopher, 47 Louisburg Jan 22 Lancaster Funeral Service Cotton, Annie, 83 Chapel Hill Jan 22 Jones Funeral Home Frey, Janet 79 Raleigh Jan 19 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Fuller, Lucy 88 Franklinton Jan 23 Franklinton Chapel Jackson, Omega 50 Louisburg Jan 24 Lancaster Funeral Service Jenkins, Beth 61 Raleigh Jan 26 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Kelly, Ernestine Shuler, 86 Durham Jan 26 Burthey Funeral Service Killian, Lawrence, 78 Rolesville Jan 26 First Cremation Society Lombardo, Frank, 81 Louisburg Jan 25 Lancaster Funeral Service Long, Robert 81 Durham Jan 23 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Mims Dewey, 92 Southern Pines Jan 24 Boles Funeral Home Mulvihill, Mary, 74 Durham Jan 21 Holloway Memorial Funeral Odom, Barbara, 83 Durham Jan 25 Clements Funeral Services Person, William 61 Franklinton Jan 25 Haywood Funeral Home Poole, Peggy, 73 Louisburg Jan 24 First Cremation Society Rudolph, Gerald 92 Hillsborough Jan 20 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Seabrook, Frederick, 62 Durham Jan 24 Holloway Memorial Funeral Shapcott, Trudy 90 Cary Jan 26 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Shingleton, George 57 Durham Jan 23 Hudson Funeral Home Snead, William Allen, 82 Red Oak, VA Jan 25 Watkins Cooper Lyon Funeral Starkey, Patricia 86 Pittsboro Jan 25 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Thomas, Nancy 85 Wake Forest Jan 26 Cremation Society of The Carolinas Yanick, Rodney James, 76 Kenly Jan 26 Sanders Funeral Home OBITUARY INDEX Bold listings indicate expanded obituaries View and place obituaries at newsobserver.com Contact our obituary staff at 919-829-4545 or NAME, AGE CITY DEATH ARRANGEMENTS Las Vegas, Nevada Henrietta L. Buie, age 83, transitioned on January 23, 2021. She was born February 2, 1937. Graveside service will be at Beechwood Cemetery, Saturday, January 30, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.
Henrietta enjoyed her many roles one being the de- voted military wife support- ing her late husband, Alton Buie, by making a loving home at each base in or out of the United States. She took excellent care of her daughters, who were devoted to caring for her until the last beat of her heart. She was a wonderful cook. No one would be hungry if they were around her. Henrietta learned that from her late mother, Mrs.
Beulah Lewis. Liggett and Myers Tobacco Factory was the job that helped her to become a power shopper with good taste in fashion. She had a beautiful smile that could light up a room and a great sense of humor. We will miss her feisty spirit. Henrietta leaves to cherish her memory two daughters, Benita B.
Wilson of Las Ve- gas, NV and Sheri B. Smith (Louis) of Pittsburgh, PA; one sister, Vermel Hayes of Durham; and a host of niec- es, nephews, other relatives and friends. Arrangements are entrust- ed to Scarborough Hargett Celebration of Life Center, Inc. Henrietta Buie February 2, 1937 January 23, 2021 Durham, North Carolina Mrs. Ernestine S.
Kelly, 86, died Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Her graveside service will be held at on Saturday, January 30, 2021 at Beechwood Cemetery, 3300 Fayetteville St. There is a public viewing on Friday from at Bur- they Funeral Chapel, 1510 Fayetteville Street. Masks are required for all viewings and services. Ernestine Shuler Kelly January 2, 1935 January 26, 2021 Southern Pines, North Carolina Dewey S.
Mims age 92, of Southern Pines, died peacefully in the presence of his children, on January 24, 2021. He was preceded in death by his wife, Bobbie Stallings Mims in 1984. Dewey was born Novem- ber 7, 1928 in Durham, NC to the late Dewey Sexton Mims and Eleanor Holland Mims. He received his edu- cation at the Durham Public Schools and Duke University in Durham. He made a career in insurance, acquiring own- ership of Hobbs Insurance Agency in Southern Pines and Aberdeen Insurance Realty Company through which he enjoyed serving their clients for many years, until retiring in 2013.
He is survived by a son, D. Jeffrey Mims of Southern Pines, and a daughter, Lucy Mims Stains and her husband Rev. Joseph Stains of South Fork, PA, was to three grandchildren, Rachel Bergman, Katherine Stains and Joseph G. Stains, eight great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, and had three nieces and two nephews. A sister, Eleanor Mims Newell of Charlotte also preceded him in death as well as one nephew.
Private funeral services were provided by Boles Funeral Home of Southern Pines. In lieu of the family has requested that re- membrances be made in the form of contributions to Firs- tHealth Hospice House, 150 Applecross Pinehurst, NC, 28374. Dewey Mims Jr. November 7, 1928 January 24, 2021 but in those days was a playwright. Diane, meanwhile, felt called to ministry.
She and Fred married in 1971 and moved together to New York, where she could attend seminary and he could try professional theater. They lived in Ohio, Colorado and the Char- lotte area before arriving with their young son in Raleigh in 1992. EACH COULD COMMAND A CROWD At the time, the Church of the Nativity was a young congregation that had recently built its first building after holding worship services in bor- rowed school gyms. Diane was called as vicar and became the first rector in 1993. Fried and Diane could each command a crowd, friends say, he from the stage and she from the pulpit.
would remem- ber her said David Corlett, who said his mother only required that he attend church on Christmas and Easter but allowed him to decide whether to come the rest of the year. could capture everybody in the audi- While she was attentive to her parishioners, Diane was active in her faith beyond the walls of her church. David Corlett said his mother did mission work in Honduras, Cam- bodia and other countries when he was young. And she was known for her dedication to People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, a non-denom- inational group launched in Carrboro in 1994 to try to abolish the death penal- ty in North Carolina and across the country. Diane served on the board of directors and was a vocal advocate for its mission.
She and Steve Dear became friends while he was exec- utive director from the late-1990s until 2015. had a wonderful sense of Dear said, she also had a moral gravitas to her per- sona. She had a ARGUING AGAINST DEATH PENALTY Dear, who now lives in Oregon, said Diane at- tended at least 10 of the more than two dozen meetings he organized between faith leaders and sitting North Carolina governors over the years to ask for clemency for death row inmates ahead of scheduled executions. Some of the meetings, he said, were long and emotional. There was one, he re- called, in 1998 or it might have been when the group was trying to save the life of a young man who had killed another inmate but was suspected of having a mental illness and a very low IQ when, as their appeals appeared to be failing, Diane Corlett made a plaintive sugges- tion to then-Gov.
James B. Hunt. told him to exe- cute her Dear said. was completely serious. I mean, deadly serious.
And I remember being somewhat trans- formed by that level of commitment, to be able to say that to the governor. who talking Diane was a regular at the candlelight vigils held outside Central Prison, too, whenever an execution was David Corlett remembers riding with his dad to take food for the gatherings. A stroke in 2008 forced Diane into an early retire- ment. It keep her from supporting the local music and theater com- munity, including those in which her husband was a cast member. At different times, Fred Corlett performed, direct- ed or stage-managed plays for nearly every theater group in town, his name appearing somewhere in the programs of hundreds of plays.
By day, he was a state employee who pro- cessed disability claims for Medicaid and Medicare. His nights were spent by theater lights. Jerome Davis, who formed Burning Coal Theatre with his wife, Simmie Kastner, in the late 1990s, met Fred around the year 2000. had a fascinating Davis said. In addi- tion to his broad theater experience, Fred was a skilled gymnast, and a history buff who brought a deep understanding of context to plays that were based on real events.
Fred could and did play any role, Davis said, and while he enjoyed leads he would always take supporting roles, sometimes several at once. almost never said to anything that you offered him if it involved Davis said. might turn it down if he was already doing two or three other things. But usually if I asked him or another artistic director in town asked him, he was BRINGING THE AUDIENCE TO TEARS Davis said that in more than 100 shows they worked on together, through hundreds and hundreds of hours of re- hearsals, he could never recall Fred missing a re- hearsal or even being late for one. I never recall him saying a negative word about anybody Da- vis said.
was just joyous. He was a light bulb in the room. And those are few and far David Corlett recalled his performance of Otto Frank in Diary of Anne in which David also had a role. was a stellar per- David said, remembering his father bringing the audience to tears with the final mono- logue about what hap- pened to his wife and daughters. David liked his father as Isador Rabi in Burning production of Love Song of J.
Robert David Corlett said his mom went into the hospi- tal for a surgical procedure in December, and while she was there, his dad visited every hour he was allowed. When it was time for her to move to a rehab facility for recuperation, she had to get a CO- VID-19 test as a precau- tion. It came back positive. Fred got tested a couple of days later, his son said, and his results were posi- tive, too. JUST WANTED TO BE WITH Diane Corlett was moved on New Eve to a rehab center in Pitts- boro that accepted COVID patients.
On Jan. 10, nurs- es told him by phone that her vital signs looked good, he said. They called back that night and said she had passed. By then, Fred had been hospitalized with the vi- rus. David called to tell him of passing, and he could hear his spirit fall.
think he just wanted to be with he said. Four days later, on Jan. 14, Fred Corlett died. He was 71. His wife was 70.
David Corlett is still working on arrangements, and know yet if there will be one memo- rial service or two. But he said his parents chose cremation. He plans to scatter their ashes together. Martha Quillin: 919-829-8989, FROM PAGE 1A COUPLE Woodall said. Raul Arce Jimenez and Shawn Birchfield-Finn, along with three others, were charged with injury to real property, misde- meanor riot and defacing a public statue or monu- ment after the removal in August 2018.
Jimenez also was charged in connection with the 2017 toppling of the Dur- ham Confederate statue but was later found not guilty. District Court Judge Lunsford Long dismissed the charges against two defendants in April 2019, but convicted Jimenez and Birchfield-Finn of all three charges and and sen- tenced them to 24 hours in jail. Their attorney Scott Holmes appealed the case to Superior Court and requested a jury trial, delaying the sentence. Holmes got an email Tuesday notifying him that the cases, which were scheduled for a Feb. 15 hearing, had been dis- missed.
very pleased. glad they did Holmes said. EVIDENCE WAS SAYS ATTORNEY Holmes has represented most of the people charged in connection with anti-racism protests in Chapel Hill in recent years. The other cases were dismissed outright or after his clients did com- munity service, he said. The evi- dence against Jimenez and Birchfield-Finn was he said.
way that that par- ticular event unfolded, all of the police officers kind of moved away from Silent Sam shortly before it was pulled down, so no officers actually witnessed the pulling of it and no arrests were made at the Holmes said. Orange County prose- cutors dismissed charges this week against two men who had appealed their conviction in the 2018 toppling of the Silent Sam Confederate statue on UNC-Chapel cam- pus. The decision was based on having to prioritize cases piling up in the Orange County court system since it was shut down by the COVID-19 outbreak in March, Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall said. not in control of COVID-19 and had no control over the fact that had court shut down, and realistically, it will be months and months before we ever get to these cases, and we simply have to only evidence they had was basically video from media coverage in the dark, and the state asked the judge just to look at the video and look at my clients in court to see if they can make an identification them- he said. view is that a jury would have a hard time convicting peo- ple just based upon trying to look at a video like UNC placed Silent Sam in storage after the protest and removed the base in January 2019.
Many more Confederate monuments have been removed around the state in the wake of the Durham and Chapel Hill protests, and some of those in- volved in the UNC pro- tests have since moved on to Alamance County, where Black Lives Matter demonstrators are calling for the Confederate statue there to be removed. HUNDREDS OF CASES DISMISSED The Silent Sam case is among hundreds dis- missed over the past year, Woodall said. In District Court, about 1,500 Orange County cases were dismissed and roughly half that number were dismissed in Chatham County, he said. The cases marked for dismissal involve misde- meanors, such as traffic violations, and less-serious crimes in which no one was hurt, he said. Mur- ders, rapes, DWIs, robber- ies and other more serious crimes will still be prose- cuted when jury trials restart in the next few months.
It still could take a few years to catch up on all the cases delayed, he said. The Orange County Courthouse in Hillsbor- ough remains closed to the general public, al- though some cases are being handled in person. Other cases, including Superior Court cases that are not going to a jury, have been handled online via Webex. dismissing quite a few things in Superior Court. not got any- thing to do with some of these Silent Sam cases.
got to do with COVID and we know we get all these cases tried, so we are prioritizing Woodall said. Tammy Grubb: 919-829-8926, Cases dismissed against two accused in Silent removal BY TAMMY GRUBB UNC PLACED SILENT SAM IN STORAGE AFTER THE PROTEST AND LATER REMOVED THE BASE..
