{"id":5005,"date":"2025-05-19T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:07:09","slug":"wentworth-l-durgin-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2025\/05\/19\/wentworth-l-durgin-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Wentworth L. Durgin ’68"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wentworth Lawrence Durgin died April 23, 2025 in his sleep. He was born on August 26,1948 the son of Eunice King Durgin and the Reverend Lawrence Lazelle Durgin. Father to Larry (deceased) and Sarah. He is survived by his sister Katherine \u201cKit\u201d Durgin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worthy spent his childhood in Providence, Rhode Island. At 12 his family moved to New York City. In 1968 Worthy graduated from Williston Academy. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina, and later his MDiv from Yale Divinity School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Worthy\u2019s career he held senior positions in fundraising with a variety of non-profits. Upon retirement from nonprofit work in Greensboro, North Carolina, Worthy moved to Raleigh in 2005 to care for Eunice, his mother. It was in Raleigh that Worthy found Anita Deters, the love of his life, who helped him get back on his feet and supported him in all his creative endeavors. Worthy enjoyed writing poetry and was most proud of his published book of poems, \u201cSteps and Missteps\u201d. Worthy was active in men\u2019s work such as The Mankind Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worthy\u2019s positiveness, his sense of humor and his deep desire to help others who struggle will be missed. Worthy\u2019s presence left the world a bit better than it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wentworth Lawrence Durgin died April 23, 2025 in his sleep. He was born on August 26,1948 the son of Eunice King Durgin and the Reverend Lawrence Lazelle Durgin. Father to Larry (deceased) and Sarah. He is survived by his sister Katherine \u201cKit\u201d Durgin. Worthy spent his childhood in Providence, Rhode Island. At 12 his family … Continue reading Wentworth L. Durgin ’68<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[258,63],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-class-of-1968","tag-williston-academy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}