Maurice Koury, a Burlington native with strong ties to UNC, has passed away.

Jones Angell and Roy Williams announced Koury’s passing on the Tar Heel head coach’s weekly radio show Monday night.

Koury served on the UNC Board of Trustees, the Board of Visitors, the Medical Foundation of North Carolina, the General Alumni Association’s board and the Morehead Scholarship Committee, according to the university.

Koury is a 1949 graduate of UNC with a BA in chemistry and went on to become president of Carolina Hosiery Mills.

Koury Residence Hall, the nearly 73,000-square-foot space featuring suite-style rooms for 263 students, was named after Koury. The Koury Natatorium was completed in 1986.

Koury led the successful fund-raising drive to finance the Dean E. Smith Center when he was president of the Educational Foundation in the early 1980s.

Koury also received the Distinguished Service Medal of the General Alumni Association in 1994, the William Richardson Davie Award in 1995 and an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in 2001.

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