WAGON TRAIN ?? The annual Wagon Tram trip t>l men. women, ami children oj Hoke and Robeson colonies
/Hissed through Raetord Friday morning Irom the assembly area at Oakdale Gin heading lor the camp ground at
the Raeford Airport. These pictures were taken as the train was traveling east on Last Prospect Avenue. About 1(10
people on horseback and tn oldtune wagons, buggies and similar vehicles were oil the road, but more were due to
join them at camp alter Tmishing their day 's work on their regular jobs. The camp started Friday and went into
Sunday.
Over 25 Years Service
Black Retires From Burlington
Kcll> C. Black recently retired
from iIk' Dyeing Plant ot Burling
ton Industries alter <>\er 25 years t*t
continuous service.
Kelts joined Burlington in Oc
tober as a weaver; soon
afterward lie moved into the Color
Control area where lie served in
S(H I \l M US
several positions until assuming his
last position as Color Control
technician, where he worked until
Ins retirement on June
In addition to a retirement
luncheon and several gilts from his
lellow employees. Kelly received a
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Deaths & Funerals
Edwin Pate
The funeral tor Edwin Pate. 84,
president of the firm which op
erates Dundarrach Farms and
Dundarrach Trading Co., was
conducted June 16 in Laurinburg
Presbyterian Church. Burial was in
Hillside Cemetery. Laurinburg.
Mr. Pate served in. the State
Senate 1941-53 and as president
pro tern of the Senate in 1953.
His firm, a family corporation, is
Z.V. Pate. Inc. It operates stores
and farms in several counties of
Eastern North Carolina and in
South Carolina.
Mr. Pate also was a former
chairman of the State Ports Au
thority. and had served on the State
Board of Education and State
Board of Conservation and De
velopment. He also was a former
president of the North Carolina
Bankers Association and was a
former director of Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Co. and
Durham Life Insurance Co. In
1967 he received the Distinguished
Citizens Award of the North Caro
lina Citizens Association.
He was a 1921 graduate of North
n Carolina State College of Agricul
jr ture and Engineering (now N.C.
L State University) and once served
? as president of the school's Alumni
I Association.
Mr. Pate also had served as
? chairman of the Scotland County
Memorial Hospital Board of
Trustees and as a director of First
I Union National Bank of North
? Carolina.
K He is survived by his wife. Mrs.
? Beverley Pate: and his sisters. Mrs.
! Sarah Townsend of Laurinburg
and Mrs. Marv Currie of Favette
ville.
Pate Funeral Home of Laurel
Hill was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Edith Athburn Davis
Mrs. Edith Ashburn Davis. 54.
died Monday. June 14. 1982. in the
N.C. Cancer Institute.
Funeral services were conducted
at 4:00 PM. Tuesday, at Raeford
United Methodist Church by the
Reverend Arthur Winstead and P.
Wesley Aitken. Chaplain at Duke
Hospital. Burial was in Raeford
Cemetery. Pallbearers were
nephews Michael Anthony. Randy
Ashburn. David Mann. Bruce
Mann. Michael Upchurch, David
Upchurch.
Surviving are three sons. Jimmy
Davis of Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Johnny Davis of Raeford, and Steve
Davis of Miramar, Florida; her
mother Mrs. Arthur Ashburn of
Raeford. her brother Randall
Ashburn of Raeford: three sisters.
Mallie Anthony of Harmony.
Margie Mann of Lillington. and
Betty Upchurch of Durham; six
grandchildren.
The Rev. J.R. McAllister
The Rev. J.R. McAllister of Rt.
1. Raeford. died Saturday.
The funeral was conducted Tues
day afternoon in Piney Grove
Baptist Church by the Rev. Sher
man Brooks. Burial was in the
McAllister family cemetery.
Doby's funeral Home was in
charge of the arrangements.
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