TOA Member Memorial

Remembering our Friends

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This page is dedicated to members of the Triangle Ostomy Association who have passed on. Our friends will be missed, but not forgotten.

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In Memory

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LeRoy Edward Hood (1926-2011)

LeRoy Hood passed away on June 19, 2011. He was born in Albany, NY to Edna V. Hood and LeRoy George Hood on January 19, 1926.

He served as a combat crew member in the Army Air Force on B-29 bombers during WWII. He flew combat missions as a mechanic gunner against the Japanese while based on the Island of Tinian in the Western Pacific. After the war he returned home soon married Kathryn Hallenbeck, his wife of 63 years. They moved to Cocoa, Florida and he went to work for Pan American Airways at Cape Canaveral Missile test center as a missile launch complex supervisor. After leaving Florida he moved to Cary, NC where he worked as chief of maintenance and operations at the National Institute of Environmental health Services in RTP. He is survived by his daughter, Susan Barr and her fiancé, Terry Austin of Atlanta, Sanford Hood, his daughter-in-law Michelle and his granddaughter Savannah. He also has a grandson, Richard Larkin, Richard’s wife Amber and their daughter Charlotte.

A memorial service will be held at Resurrection Lutheran Church at 10:00 am Thursday June 23, 2011. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Meals on Wheels or the debt reduction fund of Resurrection Lutheran Church.

Condolences may be made to www.brownwynnecary.com.

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Sidney Charles Kaufmann (1931-2011)

Sidney Charles Kaufmann, 79, passed away Thursday, May 19, 2011. Mr. Kaufmann was born in Jackson Heights, NY on December 17, 1931 to Ralph and Emma Kaufmann. He lived in Commack, NY until moving to Raleigh, NC in 1993. He will always be remembered as a devoted and loving husband, father, grandfather and friend to all.

Mr. Kaufmann is survived by his wife, Elaine; children, Robert, Jill and Carl; grandchildren, Danielle, Justin, Abigail, Samuel, Kelly and Jack; brother, Irving; and beloved dog, Cocoa.

A memorial service was held 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 23, 2011 at Brown- Wynne Funeral Home, 200 SE Maynard Road, Cary, NC. The family received friends immediately after the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, 8300 Health Park, Suite 10, Raleigh, NC 27615.

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Kenneth Lee McDilda

Kenneth Lee McDilda of Raleigh, NC,passed away on February 17, 2010, surrounded by his loving family. Ken, a Mason and a Shriner, retired in 2006 as a senior software engineer with Visara International. The father of Michelle and Kristin McDilda, and grandfather of Nathan McDilda, Ken was married to his wife Stephanie for 18 Years.

Ken is also survived by his brothers, Michael McDilda of South Hill, Va., and Ron and his wife Aileen McDilda of Emporia, Va., and a large number of nieces and cousins. He was predeceased by his parents, Claude Raymond and Helen Grace McDilda.

The visitation for Ken will be held Friday, February 26 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 1701 E. Millbrook Rd., Raleigh. The funeral service will be Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 2:00 pm at Benson Memorial United Methodist Church on Creedmoor Rd., immediately followed by the graveside service at Raleigh Memorial Park on Glenwood Avenue.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Masonic Home for Children in Oxford, NC, the Shriner's Children's Hospital, or Hospice of Wake County.

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Kathy Bong (1962-2009)

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David Martin

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