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Longtime N.C. A&T photographer Charles Watkins, known for documenting milestones involving the university, died Dec. 13 at the age of 57 without ever getting the dual kidney and heart transplant he had been waiting for.

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Charles Watkins at work in 2010 during a football game between N.C. A&T and Morgan State at Aggie Stadium. Here he is working with Erica Eller and Charles Petry, two young people he was mentoring while on a transplant list.

Charles Watkins receives an infusion of antibiotics as he fights off an infection at Moses Cone Hospital in September 2010.

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GREENSBORO — Charles Watkins never gave up on the idea of getting a dual kidney and heart transplant even as his body weakened and doctors told him he stood the risk of dying on the operating table.

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Those we've lost in Guilford County in 2019

Harry Sky

Civil rights Rabbi Harry Sky, who marched in the racially charged streets of Selma, Ala., died Dec. 14 at the age of 95. Sky, who was on Twitter into his 90s, was viewed as a giant in the American rabbi community

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Charles Watkins

Longtime N.C. A&T photographer Charles Watkins, known for documenting milestones involving the university, died Dec. 13 at the age of 57 without ever getting the dual kidney and heart transplant he had been waiting for.

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Joanne Kapnek Bluethenthal

Joanne Kapnek Bluethenthal, former director of the Eastern Music Festival, past president of the Greensboro Jewish Federation and a champion of social causes. died Dec. 6 at 91.

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Charlie Chusakul

Chavalit"Charlie" Chusakul, owner and operator of Rearn Thai restaurant, died Nov. 24 at 81. Chusakul and wife, Pat opened Rearn Thai 28 years ago after they immigrated with their two sons, Gunn and Pin, from Thailand. Before that, he worked as an accountant for the Thai embassy in the United States.

Courtesy of the Chusakul family

Dennis Barry

Dennis Barry, the executive who transformed Moses Cone from a midsize hospital into a regional health system during his 25 years as president, died Nov. 21 at 80. Barry was also a former president of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.

Bailey Smith

Madison high school junior Bailey Morgan Smith, who had battled an aggressive form of cancer since 2015, died Nov. 13 at 17. NASCAR drivers and documentaries fascinated Bailey, and earlier this year, she was able to meet racing great Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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Steve Showfety

Steve Showfety, chairman of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority and former president of Koury Corp., died of brain cancer Oct. 30 at age 72. As an employee of Koury Corp., he helped Joe Koury develop such major properties as the Koury Convention Center and Grandover Resort and then managed those properties and their subsequent growth after Koury's death.

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Noah Chambers

Eleven-year-old Noah Isaac Chambers of Stokesdale died Nov. 3 after being struck by an SUV near a Halloween event in Oak Ridge. He was a student at Rockingham County Middle School.

Courtesy of the Chambers Family

Kay Hagan

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (shown in 2014), died at the age of 66 on Oct. 28 from complications relating to a tick-borne disease. Hagan won a seat as a Democrat in the North Carolina state Senate in 1998, and 10 years later won the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Elizabeth Dole. She served one term.

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Ron Barker

Ron Barker, who as Forsyth County sheriff from 1990 until 2002, died Oct 28 at 86. Barker, helped start the department’s first homicide division, led the investigation of the Klenner-Lynch-Newsom murders in the mid-1980s. In that case, nine people died in a crime spree that took place in Kentucky, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Summerfield.

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Leslie Millsaps

Leslie Rowe Millsaps, 63, died in an Oct. 17 car crash in Davie County. She  will be remembered for her work preserving historic buildings and giving to the community, colleagues and friends said. Millsaps was president of DLM Builders, a full-service home design and remodeling business owned and operated with her husband, David.

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Arnold Koonce

Arnold Koonce Jr., High Point mayor from 1999 to 2003, 93, died Oct. 7. Koonce left a legacy of rebuilding the city’s infrastructure, and expanding economic development and public safety. Koonce also laid the groundwork to protect residents’ interests in regional projects such as the FedEx hub and the Randleman Reservoir project.

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Susan Edwards

Susan Jarrell Edwards, 58, a member of one of the city’s most prominent families, died Oct. 2 at home on her horse farm in northern Florida. She was remembered as as an engaging woman with a passion for horses, for the arts and for aiding those less fortunate. Edwards was the sister of state Rep. Pricey Harrison, great-granddaughter of Julian Price, granddaughter of Joseph M. Bryan and the daughter of philanthropist Kay Bryan Edwards and Roy Tolbert Edwards.

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Jerry Owens

N. Jerry Owens, the second president of Rockingham Community College from 1983-1996, died on Sept. 26. He was 84.

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Tom Gilmore

Nurseryman and politician Tom Gilmore, shown in 1988, died Sept. 24 at 88. Gilmore served three terms in the N.C. House of Representatives.

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Tom Jarrell

Chief District Court Judge Tom Jarrell died Aug. 3. at 56. Jarrell was appointed to the post in 1999. Jarrell served as president of the N.C. Association of District Court Judges and helped create Street Safe, a program that allows young people to learn proper driving techniques from law enforcement. A combination fentanyl and heroin overdose caused Jarrell's death, the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said in an autopsy released Oct. 17.

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LaMonte Armstrong

Former Greensboro resident LaMonte Armstrong, who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 17 years, died in August. Armstrong was freed in 2012 when new evidence emerged that he was not involved in the 1988 killing of N.C. A&T professor Ernestine Compton.

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Police dog Rambo

Greensboro police K-9 officer Rambo who died in the line of duty Aug. 16 Rambo, who nabbed 25 criminals, uncovered more than a dozen discarded firearms and found evidence in 50 criminal cases, was tracking a robbery suspect through congested traffic when he was struck by a vehicle.

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Geneva Tisdale

Geneva Tisdale (shown with Jesse Jackson in 1993), one the first African Americans served in at the Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, died July 15 at 86. Tisdale, a cook at the segregated lunch counter during the 1960 sit-ins, was among four Woolworth employees who were the first African Americans served in 1960 at the lunch counter in downtown Greensboro.

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Stan Swofford

Longtime News & Record reporter Stan Swofford, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, died July 16. His work spotlighted the misuse of tax dollars, government scandals and people incarcerated unjustly.

Carlos Morales

Greensboro's Carlos Morales (far right) was part of a tour group that Betty Davis assembled, later known as Funkhouse. Morales, who died in May, would use his time with Davis as a launching pad to play with Julian Lennon, Natalie Cole and other well-known entertainers while living between California and London.

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Dr. Otis Tillman

Dr. Otis Tillman, who delivered some 3,000 babies in High Point during segregation and later left his fingerprints on projects that drove the local economy, died April 10 at the age of 89. Tillman wrote a book that he often gave to black medical residents, “Prescription for the Soul.”

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Alonzo Dudley Jr., known by many as “Uncle Pete,” April 4 at age 58. Dudley was known by those in the Tate Street area for walking everywhere. That included walking with young women to make sure they got home safely at night.

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Doug Galyon

Former local elected official and state Board of Transportation leader J. Douglas “Doug” Galyon — after whom Greensboro’s transportation depot in named — died April 7 after a lengthy career in business, industry, community and public service.

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William Vann York

William Vann York, founder of the Vann York Auto Group, died March 30 at the age of 91.

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John Kilimanjaro

John Kilimanjaro, publisher of The Carolina Peacemaker and founder the theater arts program at N.C. A&T and the N.C. Black Publishers Association, died on March 27 at the age of 88.

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Nina Wiglesworth-Morgan

Nina Wiglesworth-Morgan, among the first women to serve in the Marines during Work War II died March 2 at the age of 95. She was also a Gold Star Mom, who lost a son in battle.

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Charles Gibson

Charles Gibson, who co-owned and operated The Browsery Antiques and Books for 43 years, died on Jan. 26. He was 14 days away from his 75th birthday.

Lisa Rhyne

Lisa Rhyne, a familiar face at Mary’s Antiques and Rhyne’s Corner Cupboard, died Jan. 22, 16 days shy of her 50th birthday. Her parents, Mary Wells and Richard Rhyne, were in the antiques business and operated stores at the intersection of South Elm and Lewis streets for decades. Though Rhyne couldn’t talk, she enjoyed greeting customers with a big smile.

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Bob Burchette

Robert “Bob” Burchette, a News & Record reporter and editor for nearly 34 years, died Jan. 13 at 81.

Contact Nancy McLaughlin at

336-373-7049 and follow

@nmclaughlinNR on Twitter.

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Charles Watkins portrait

Longtime N.C. A&T photographer Charles Watkins, known for documenting milestones involving the university, died Dec. 13 at the age of 57 without ever getting the dual kidney and heart transplant he had been waiting for.

Charles Watkins at work in 2010 during a football game between N.C. A&T and Morgan State at Aggie Stadium. Here he is working with Erica Eller and Charles Petry, two young people he was mentoring while on a transplant list.

Charles Watkins receives an infusion of antibiotics as he fights off an infection at Moses Cone Hospital in September 2010.

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