DEATHS
BENNIE M. SMITH
Bennie M. Smith, age 31, died
Monday, January 28, at his home
on Cedar Street, where he had
lived for the past six years.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon, January 30,
at 2:30 in the Rosemary Bapt
ist Church, by Rev. B. M. White
hurst, pastor of the Rosemary
Baptist Church and Rev. A. E.
Simms, pastor of the Bear Swamp
Baptist Churcn, Littleton, N. C.
Surviving are his wife, Leana
Williams Smith of Roanoke Rap
ids; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Smith of Enfield; six broth
ers, Jack Smith, Enfield; Wood
row Smith, Plymouth, N. C.; Isaac
Jr., and Nelson Smith of Little
ton and Herbert and Curtis Smith
of Enfield; and one sister, Mrs.
I. M. Lewis, Jr., of Enfield.
The palhbearers, friends of the
deceased, were Russell Birdsong,
Casper Lewis, Otha Hudson, Lest
er (Jutland, James Mooney, John
King, Wiley Connell and Graham
Pulley.
The flower girls, were Janie Rae
Bridges, Margaret Denton, Sadie
Hopkins, Fannie Cox, Blanche
Davenport, Elizabeth Green, Mar
garet Birdsong and Louis Hop
kins.
HILLSON HOMER JONES
Hillson Homer Jones, 36, died
Friday morning in the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital after an illness
of several months. Funeral ser
vices were conducted Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from the
W. C. Williams Funeral Home
fcy Rev. B. Marshall Whitehurst
and Rev. Gordon Price. Burial fol
lowed in Cedarwood Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was a graduate of the
local high school and he attended
Benjamin Franklin University in
Washington, D. C.
Survivors are his mother; four
sisters, Mrs. M. H. Hedgepeth,
Mrs. Lena Rives Ray, both of
this city, Mrs. E. M. Bigood of
Portsmouth and Mrs. Jesse Grant
of Emporia; one brother, S. B.
Jones of Sanford.
Pallbearers at the funeral were:
C. C. Shell, Howerton Gowen, W.
L. Medlin, W. G. Bunch, C. D.
Liske, C. C. Cannon. Flower girls
were Misses Minnie Johnson, Lois
Lyles, Clyde Fulghum, Sarah Cox,
Mrs. C. C. Shell and Mrs. Tom
White.
MRS. D. E. MOORE
Mrs. D. E. Moore, 69, died at
her home, 610 Washington Street,
Monday night after a short ill
ness.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at four o’
clock from the Roanoke Rapids
Methodist Chu:ch by Rev. L. A.
Tilley.
Survivors were: her husband.
Doc Moore; four daughters, Josie
Moore, Mrs. Agatha Miller and
Mrs’. S. S. Hutchinson of Roa
noke Rapids and Mrs. L. L. Pit
lard of Charlotte; two sons, W.
I.. Moore and Frank E. Moore
of this city; and one sister, Mrs.
H. M. Scott of Burlington.
Active pallbearers at the fu
neral were: Clyde Liske, Edwin
Akers, J. B. Hutchinson, Roy
Fields, W. L. Medlin and Harvey
Woodruff.
Hononary pallbearers were: Dr.
J. W. Martin, A. Meikle, R. L.
Towe, W. S. Pepper, P. I. Powell.
Harvey Taylor, A N. Martin, O.
Griffin, Dr. F. G. Kroncke, R. I.
Starke, W. P. Vaughan, M. D.
Collier, W V. Womble, J. W.
Browning, Geo. Taylor, W. P.
Taylor, F. M. Coburn, J. H. Spi
vey, Mary Pulley, Henry Beal, W.
G. Lynch, Lonnie Daniel, R. H.
Rook, S. L. Moon, R. O. Bray, W.
L. King, Peter Harris, S. C.
Cooke and M. F. H. Askins.
ROANOKE RAPIDS
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The following new books have
recently been added to the library:
JUVENILE
Gid Granger by Robert Davis;
Justice Morgan had a Horse, by
Marguerite Henry; Little Lost
Lamb, Golden McDonald; Jesus
Story, Maude and Miska Peterson,
Making the Movies, Jeamie Ben
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L. A. Wadsforth; The Bible Story,
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Fire, Elizabeth Olds; Our Coun
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Theatre Shoes, Noel Strietfield.
ADULT BOOKS
Those Other People, Mary King
O’Donnell.
BIRTHS
The following babies were born
recently at the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Corum, 1202
Washington Street, a girl on Feb
ruary 2; Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Royal, 728-B Jefferson Street, a
boy on February 4; and Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Moore, city, a girl on
February 4.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Out-of-town patients at the hos
pital are:
T. W. Pair, Emporia; J. H.
Parks, Jackson; Whitney W. Par
rish, Lawrenceville, Va.; Mrs. J.
M. Mann, Severn; R. W. Maddrey,
Severn; L. G. Lassiter, Conway;
Miss Ernestine House, Emporia;
Dallas Edwards, Seaboard; Mrs.
Otis Davis, Brancheville, Va.:
Bobby Betty Lou Crfitcher, Little
ton; A. J. Wright, Pairs Store,
Va.; and Mrs. Eva R. Thomp
son, Garysbur.g.
Miss Ernestine Smith spent the
week end in Chapel Hill.
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