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I VOLUME 19 NUMBER 6 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1991 25 CENTS PER COPY
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Whatever Happened to ...
Winnie Bell Oxendine
By Barbara Braveboy-LocUear
SPECIAL TO THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
?"Someone's got to look after me, 'cause I\e looked
after so many people in my Ife," says Winnie Bell
Oxendine as she reflects on more than 70 years of caring
for ill parents, relatives and neighbors in and around the
Union Chapel community where she has lived most of her
life.
"Don't figure I haven't done anything in my life. I've
done my part," Mrs. Oxendine says softly. "When
people got skk, I looked after them. That's why I'm here
today." Ninety-one years ago she was born the youngest
child to Daniel and Elizabeth "Betsy" Locklear, a couple
who saw three of their children live into adulthood; four
others die in infancy.
Mrs. Oxendine's early childhood years were spent
working on the farm alongside her parents and siblings.
Hie lucid Lumbee Indian remembers olden times when
the mode of travel was by mule and wagon.
"That's how we went to church," she interjects. "And
if we didn't do that way we walked. I always walked to
school as a child attending Union Chapel School." She
met and later married Richard Oxendine. From the union
were bom two sons and a daughter. When the marriage
failed, the young mother with her daughter moved bade
to the LodUear homestead in the Union Chapel
community. Not long after her brother, Albert Oxendine
took Catharine Locklear as his bride and decided it was
time that he have a home of his own. He built a two-room
house with logs he'd cut from Beck Buie's pond nearby.
The couple moved from Daniel and Betsy locklear's
house into theirs in 1996.
According to Mn.~Oxeadim lour bitterly coM winters,
later the wooden house she. her young daughter and
widowed mother lived in seemed too cold a place in which
to longer live, and they moved in with her brother, Albert
and wife. Catherine.
By this time three rooms were added to the original
two-room log house in order to accomodate the new
residents. Fifty-one years have passed, and Mrs.
Oxendine continues to live there with her only surviving
child. Ruthie Jane Oxendine. Her sons, Datry died in 1946
and Prather, in 1987.
Mrs. Oxendine says when she moved back in with her
parents a few years after her marriage ended, she never
once considered marrying again. "I didn't want to...I
didn't want to." Instead she lived her life in caring for
-"old sick people." She lovingly nursed her mother. Betsy
until her death in 1962 at age 92. 'T ve had cousins who
were sick. I looked after them until they died," she
comments.
? Longtime friends snd neighbors say the kind, soft
spoken Mrs. Oxendine is a treasure in her community.
"She used to go to the home of a sick person and stay up
all night caring for the patient, then go home and care for
her own family. She never accepted any money for her
services," says the daughter of one of Mrs. Oxendine's
former patients. "Her patients were often-times non
relatives, too."
Even though Mrs. Oxendine doesn't get around like
she used to, she says the years have been good to her. She
visited a dentist two years ago for the first time in her 91
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yean of life. She has all her natural teeth except for the
three she lost during recent visits to the dentist She says
now she has always enjoyed cooking. She laments, "But
they won't let me cook now because they think I'm too
old.'' Her daughter refuses to allow her to operate the gas
range in her home for safety reason. "I used to like to
cook for sick people and could cook anything I want to if
only Ruthie would let me."
She says she no longer quilts. "Way back yonder I
quilted. I still have many of the quilts displayed on my
quilt table." The heirlooms are not for sale she adds.
Today her days are spent quietly, often-times in
meditation. She does not attend her beloved Union
Chapel Community Church regularly because at an
ailment in both her legs. 9te says she enjoys worship
services and gospel singing on the radio. She sometimes
visits friends on the telephone and will occasionally accept
invitations to take short distance visits to homes of
friends and relatives. Once in a while she says she stays
overnight with close family members or dose friends.
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And m for watching televiaim. "I don't fool with the dial,
but watch it sometimes. I'm not erasy over ft." She says
she rarely take# a nap during the day. "1 sleep good at
night and don't need one," she smiles.
Her family and the Union Chapel community agree on
one thing. The way they figure it, Winnie Bell Oxendine
has looked after people all her life, and now it's her turn
to be looked after. And they intend to do just that for the
kind and gently lady who, over more than seven decades,
cared for so many of their own.
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RAF Justice project receives new funding
Lumberton Mr. Clifton Samp
son, chairperson of the Rural Ad
vancement Fund Justice Project
Advisory Board, announced today
that the project has received a
900,000 continuation grant from the
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Formerly known as Friend in
Court, the Justice Project has been in
Robeson County since 1964.
The grant will enable Project staff
to monitor the courts, provide limited
social services to persons involved in
court actions, work with court and
legislative personnel to improve the
judicial system, and help citisens
organize in order to confront and
rs solve court related issues. The
project will also continue to join with
other local groups working toward
mors responsive and racially inclu
sivw government.
According to Project Director Anne
Grain, the organisation focuaee oo
criminal justice issues both diroetly
court monitoring, for example-and
in directly, through education and
ewptoymesrt related efforts. "Illiter
acy and unemployment significantly
influence the functioning of our
courts," says Mm. Crain.
In announcing the grant, Mr.
Sampson paid tribute to the ongoing
support ail the Z.* Smith Reynolds
Foundation and said that many of the
Project's successes depended an that
support. Among the successes he
listed worn helping to get three
important offices established: the
Public Defender office, a Dispute
Resolution Center, and a county
Human Halations Commission
"Through dialogs* with court
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North Carolina.
Financial aid workshop to be held
Title V ? Indian Education is sponsoring two Financial
Aid Woriobops for seniors and parents on February 11
and 12 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the Indian
Resource Center located directly behind the Board of
Education officee.
Tbe workshops are designed to provide individual
assistance in completing state tad federal financial aid
foams sad applying far and fiaiNig sources of financial
aid. Any senior enrolled in the Public Schools at ffahnip
County may attend. Parents should bring W-t lama
and/or completed tax forma. These wffl assist ia the
application process. All information shooed ndTbe treated
aa confidential.
Far more infatuation. call Gaya Kmmons Cooking at
788-1887 or MayboBe Bk at 73*8717.
Magnolia defeats St. Pauls tit-Quiz Bowl
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Pirate High Saturday, Fbb. S to win the Nntk Annual
UteliQB County Quiz BnH, beM tat the A.D. Lewis
Auditorium at Robeson Community College near
Lumbarton. The event was sponsored by the Robeson
County Public library in cooperation with RCC.
AH eleven public and private high schools in the county
Fairmont, Flora Macdonald Academy, Littiefield. Mag
nolia, Orrum, Fartdon, Red Springs, SL Hauls, South
Robeson, Puraeil Duett, and Lurobertes, parijtipated in
the academic competition.
Magnolia will now ptoroort to the district auiz bowL to
be held March 23 la FhyederiUe. The wfcner at the
district competition wfll poo teed to the state finals, set for
April 27 in Raleigh.
Indian Business Assosiciation to meet
The N.C. Indian Buaineaa Association will meet Feb. 9
at Psasbrobe State University in Pembroke. The meeting
wfll take place in Room 226. Classroom North Building
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Originally famed on Dec. 1. 1990, the association is
holding its second meeting to discuss proposed bylaws
and the election ?t a vice president
Tb pie isgletsi for the meeting, send SS before Feb. 1
to Rowland Hedgepeth, treasurer. P.O. Boot 99. Hollister.
NC 27844. or call 919-688-4017. Please make checks
paymMe to N.C. Indian Buaineaa Association.
IndianTurinesses, to facilitate tho exchange of
experiences and ideas, and to provide growth.
The association plane to offer staff support, aimlHUr.
seminars and workshops providing business sdnratiea.
training, information, ieaderihip. networking opportuni
ties, advocacy and development of financial reeonrcss.
Membership is open to owners and opeiaien of Indian
businesses and those interested in assisting the
SA TWto boUauditions
Hm outdoor drama. "Strike at the Wind" will hold its All acting roles are available and everyone is
only local auditions for the 1991 season on Sunday, March encouraged to audition. For mora mionsatio*. pleaee eel
8,1M1 from 12:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the Performing
Aits Center at P8U. OlOABi am
Local Happenings
Prospect School's PTA wfll meet on Tuesday, February Interested parents and cnaHsiintp persons
12 at 7 p.m. aie encouraged to attend.
Special activities planned at Magnolia
Magnolia School is planning special activities for the
last Homecoming of the high school February 8. A
rseoptionf or the graduate alumni will bs held si Magnolia
beginning at 11 a.m. and continue throughout the day.
Each alumnus wiB be given a ribbon to wear, privileging
him or her far half price tickets for the nigh game and
fMtfvWM. FofMTgtMOIM. athlete., and 0** huMHM
will ba rotogniaad at half time of the pMi PMd*y
afternoon from 1 p.m. to S p.m., there ?| W a game
between two alumni teama. All gnahteta alumni aae
urged te attend theee special faathritiae for the fcrewel of
an tetpartaal era and the greeting of now haaiaoaa. ;
Gospel sing planned
A soopel aing will be held Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. at the
Carolina Civic Cantor in Lumberton. The aing will feature
Grid City Alabama, the Kelly Family Singer*, the Lumber
Wear Quanta! of Lumborton. lie ainging ia being
apanaorad fag the KeHy Family Singer* of Dunn. NC.
Admiasion ia ft in advance and 19 at tha door.
Rafiaafcanaato will ba aarvad. FW information or tieka*
call 790 4444. TlckeU ara ayattaWa at tka Christian Book
Stan, wars, and WYRU radio atatluns.
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