VOLUME XXII NO. 32
DARE COAST AREA
FORWARDS CIVIL
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Auxiliary Police Forces Being Or
ganized in Several Com
munities
By AYCOCK BROWN
From the standpoint of civil de
fense, the Dare Coast region is go
ing forward under the leadership
of R. K. Gunn, director of the pro
gram for this area. First in a se
ries of meetings to organize auxil
iary police forces in various com
munities was held at Wanchese on
Friday night and Mack Etheridge
was made supervisor of that dis- j
trict. “Police organizations will be j
set up in the Kitty Hawk, Kill t
Devil Hills and Nags Head area
within the next two weeks,” said
Gunn.
Responsibilities of the police
auxiliary would, in the event of an
emergency, be to -control panic,
prevent looting, safeguard traffic
and protect vital bridges, food and
gasoline supplies. In the event of
a military alert or disaster, or a
natural disaster, all rated auxil
iary police forces will be armed
and entitled to assume authority
and help maintain martial law, it
was stated.
“Members of the civil defense
radio school under the supervision
of Goodrich Williams, a retired
Coast Guard communications offi
cer, have passed the novice permit
stage and are now working to
wards their general licenses, many
with receivers they have built
themselves,” said Gunn. Through
cooperation of R. S. Smith, county
farm agent in charge of the sum
mer 4-H camp, use of an lod Navy
Radio building there has been pro
vided for radio training and Man
teo Rotary Club is paying the bill
to have the structure put in proper
shape as a radio shack for civil
defense.
For several weeks under the di
rection of Dr. W. W. Harvey, class
es in a basic medical aid program,
have been held each Wednesday
evening with considerable interest,
from local citizens who have at
tended. “The, program is for the
training and establishment of med
ical and surgical aid teams to be
used during a military or natural
emergency,” Gunn stated. “While
many women have attended the
classes, there has been some lack
of interest on the part of men to
take part in this phase of the pro
gram. Males to fill the gap would
probably be recruited from mem
bers of the local Are departments
in Manteo and on the Dare beach
es.”
Gunn paid special tribute to Mrs.
Mary Evans and staff, of the coun
ty board of education; Mrs. Goldie
Meekins and her staff of the Dare
Welfare Department, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Trew, Mrs. Wayland Fry,
Goodrich Williams and Mickey
Bridges and The Coastland Times
for the roles they have played in
completing the civil defense organ
ization. He also stated that splen
did cooperation is being offered by
Pay Bayne, Nags Head; J. C. But
ler, Kill Devil Hills; R. M. Best,
Kitty Hawk; Mack Etheridge,
Wanchese; and Alton Best of
Stumpy Point, who are serving as
district supervisors of the auxil
iary police.
COMMUNITY CHAIRMEN
ARE NAMED IN COUNTY
FOR HEART FUND DRIVE
Dare County’s Heart Fund drive
is shaping up, with the naming this
week of chairmen for the various
communities in the area. Mrs. J.
G. Kellogg of Manteo, county
chairman, advises that the follow
ing will serve in their particular
areas: Manteo, Ralph Swain; Wan
chese, Marjorie Gallop; Kill Devil
Hills and Nags Head Beaches,
George Crocker; Kitty Hawk, Mrs.
Etta Midgett; Duck, Mrs. Charlie
Spruill; Colington, Sam Liverman;
Manns Harbor, Inez Gibbs; Stumpy
Point, Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson;
Rodanthe, Capt. Levene Midgett;
Avon, Fred G. Gray; Buxton and
Frisco, George Fuller; and Hat—
teras, Virginia Dare Austin. Coun
ty treasurer is John H. Long and
Mrs. Sue V. McCown is secretary.
A door-to-door canvass will be
made on Heart Sunday, February
24 in each community. Funds
raised through this campaign go
primarly to support research and
educational programs concerning
the heart and circulatory system.
REVIVAL TO BE HELD
AT “LITTLE GROVE” CHURCH
A week of revival services will
be held at the Little Grove Meth
odist Church in Frisco, beginning
February 10th, with the Sunday
night seiVice at 7:30 p.m. Guest
minister for this series of services
will be Rev. W. R. Frost, minister
of the Currituck Methodist Church
es. Everyone is invited to attend.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA
INAUGURAL BALL SPONSOR
MISS BETTY BRUCE INGE,
daughter of Mrs. Matilda Inge of
Manteo, was sponsor for Dare rep
resentative R. Bruce Etheridge at
the Pre-Inaugural ball in Raleigh.
Her escort was Randall Etheridge
of Raleigh. Miss Inge is a grand
daughter of Representative Ether
idge.
MANY ROTARIANS
ATTEND CONFERENCE
IN ELIZABETH CITY
Manteo Club Participates in 278th
District Affair Sunday and
Monday
Several hundred Rotarians of the
278th Districts and their guests at
tended a fellowship dinner in Eliz
abeth City Sunday night as the
annual conference got under way.
James E. Gheen, a member of
the New York Rotary Club for 25
years, spoke on the topic, “What
Do You Know?” Noting that he
realized the gathering was sched
uled for getting acquainted and
having a good time, he kept his
audience in stitches with hilarious
remarks, interspersing them with
food for thought.
He told the some 50 guests pres
ent that a Rotarian is a man who
is serviceable and never finds it
too much trouble to do for his fel
lowman. The Rotary Club is an
organization which gives its mem
bers the opportunity to form
friendships, to have not too much
fun and not too much business, he
added.
He told the Rotarians that they
could do anything if they only
knew how. Everything depends on
how much you know, he indicated.
The things you take a stand
against usually turn out to be the
things you do not understand.
Any man can be a success if he
knows more about any given sub
ject than anybody else, he de
clared. He pointed out that the
average American man does not
read enough. Statistics show that
55 per cent of the Englishmen are
pel-users of books, while only 18
per cent of the people in the United
States are habitual readers of good
literature.
He argued that education is no
good if not applied. “You have to
persevere to get anywhere.” He
told his listeners that following
lines of least resistance makes
both rivers and men crooked.
The Manteo Rotary Club Quar
tet, directed by Dick Jordan, and
composed of Julian Oneto, Ralph
Swain, Lawrence Swain and John
nie Long, brought down the house
in encore after encore with modern
and barbershop-type harmony.
Jordan also delighted the audience
with renditions of his own.
Wade Marr was master of cere
monies and introduced the speaker.
The Rev. Cecil C. Callis,, pastor of
See ROTARIANS, Page Four
CHICKEN DINNER FOR
ODDFELLOWS FEB. 14
The Missouri Midgett Past Noble
Grand’s Club of Manteo will serve
a chicken dinner to all Odd Fellows
who attend their next meeting Feb.
14th. All Odd Fellows interested
will please bring their own silver.
The ladies of the P.N.G’s Club will
' be at the Town Hall and serving
will start at 6:30 p.m.
TRAVEL INCREASE NOTED
OVSR JANUARY LAST YEAR
Nags Head.-r-Traffic dropped to
less than 10,000 persons who visit
ed Cape Hatteras National Sea
shore and also the Wright Broth
ers National Monument during
January, but each of these Nation
al Park Service units noted an in
crease over January 1956.
Total visitors counted at the Na
tional Seashore was 7,122 or an in
crease of 7:5 percent over January
1956.
Attendance at the Wright Broth
ers monument, Kill Devil Hills, was
9,777 as compared to 7,127. Super
intendent Horace Dough stated
that the 1967 figure was a 87.1 in
crease over January 1966.
OUR DISTRICT ROAD
WORK DURING THE
YEAR IS REVIEWED
Many Improvements Made in
Hyde, Dare, Currituck and
Tyrrell Counties
Raleigh, Feb. s.—During 1966,
the State Highway Commission
completed a great many road im
provements in the First Highway
Division, Commissioner Emmett
Winslow of Hertford reported this
week.
On the primary system in the
division, State forces completed
92.3 miles of drag seal. Another
80.07 miles were renovated by sand
asphalt paving. A total of 37.93
miles were either graded, widened
and resurfaced or relocated and
paved.
The county road system was im
proved by 189.6 miles of drag seal
and 28.9 miles paving with a sand
asphalt surface course. A total of
4.1 miles were paved with a bitum
inous surface treatment while an
other 6.6 miles were graded and
paved with sand asphalt. 2.8 miles
were widened and 6.5 other miles
were paved with sand asphalt mix
ed-in-place. A sand seal was used
on 15 miles while 1.3 miles were
resurfaced. A total of 67.92 miles
of unimproved roads were stabil
ized by using local road materials
while another 22.3 miles were stab
ilized by using commercial mater
ials.
With division headquarters in
Ahoskie, the First is composed of
Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Bertie,
Hertford, Northampton, Chowan,
See ROAD, Page Five
PROGRESS GOOD
IN CAMPAIGN FOR
IMPROVEM’T FUNDS
t
The finance committee for water
front improvement has been m< et
ing with good success during the
last few days, with a total of
$477.00 reported in the treasury.
Recent contributions are as fol
lows: SSO each from the following,
Daniels Oil Company, Guy H. Len
non, Archie Burrus, A Friend; $25
each from Davis Boats, Kellogg
Supply Co, D. V. Meekins, Man
teo Furniture Co, $2 from Ned
Etheridge. Contributions may be
made in any amount, and checks
should be made to the Manteo
Waterfront Improvement Commit
tee, c/o C. S. Meekins, treasurer.
A brief business session of the
group took place Tuesday night,
and approval was given to purchase
some 18,000 feet of creosote lum
ber from the State. Cost of the
material will be $500; the town of
Manteo is paying S2OO of the
amount.
WIFE STEALING CASE TO
BE HEARD NEXT WEEK
Ten Cases Heard This Week by Dare
Recorder in Which Two Who
Pleaded Guilty Held Not
Guilty
In Dare County Recorders Court
Tuesday, two defendants who
pleaded guilty, were held to be not
guilty by Judge Baum. Willie Eth
eridge of Wanchese pleaded guilty
to killing a dog belonging to the
children of James Outlaw, but on
plea that the dog was killing his
chickens, the judge held him not
guilty.
Roscoe Turner, a negro, pleaded
guilty to drunkenness on the high
way on January 12 but the judge
held he was not guilty. However,
he fined Turner $25 and costs for
being drunk in the courtroom, sus
pended a 30-day sentence, provided
Turner pays up and is not in court
for a year.
David W. Gaskins of Wanchese
appealed from a SIOO fine for driv
ing drunk, but pleaded guilty and
paid a $25 fine for driving without
operator’s license.
Robert Earle Fountain of Bux
ton, for reckless driving paid $25
and costs.
Harold Coolidge Gray of Buxton
paid $25 for speeding. Herbert
White Tillett of Wanchese for d iv
ing a trailer without license, $5.
Aubrey Francis McCall of Dover,
N. C. sls and costs for 70 m.p.h.
Case against Robert Kwywolski of
Buxton was nol pressed; he being
charged with damage to a bed in
the Orange Blossom MoteT.
A $25 bond posted by Leonard
Coco of New Jersey was posted.
He was arrested for driving a trail-,
er across the new bridge, and
which wag too high for the scaf
folding. He was bopnd for Florida,
and got on the wrong road, com
ing through Manteo in the night.
This was hard luck.
The case of J. J. Peterson, who
is charged with stealing Mrs.
Braunda Beacham, wife of Carl
Beacham of Kill Devil Hills, and
taking her to Florida, will be tried
February 12. Mrs. Beacham had re
fused to return to her husband and
the three children she abandoned
when she went off with Pteterson.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957
GRAND OLD MAN OF
COLINGTON 88 FEB. 13
JOHN HAWKINS MEEKINS, one
of the fine old citizens of Coling
ton Island, was in Manteo yester
day visiting around. He will be 88
years old Wednesday, Feb. 13th.
He has long been a leader of the
community, and until a couple of
years ago was an active fisherman.
His wife, who was Sallie Shannon,
died three years ago.' A daughter
and granddaughter live with him
and keep house.
CANAL CONTRACT
AT WAVES LET TO
LIVERMAN FOR S7OC
The community of Waves, east
ernmost settlement in North Caro
lina, has found that the way to get
things is to get represented on the
Board of Commissioners. New
member Newcomb Midgett was in
strumental in getting a small ca
nal dug for a harbor for the small
craft of the fishermen, and the
county commissioners let a con
tract this week to Sam Liverman,
the low bidder, to dig the ditch at
a cost of S7OO.
The Commissioners voted to in
vite the State Highway Commis
sion to attend the* Pirate Jamboree
and bridge opening in Dare County
in April, and set up $250 to pay
for their entertainment. The Board
also went on record as opposing
the giving of endorsements to can
didates for appoiptment on the
Highway Cominission.
One thousand dollars is to be
turned over to the Trustees of the
Community Building in Manteo to
be spent on repairs as recommend
ed by the Manteo Rotary Club.
The Board apparently scared
of the cost involved, and the prob
able political implications of the
re-valuation due this year, and will
ask the Representative to get it
postponed until next year. It was
ordered that property at Kitty
Hawk Beach which has suffered so
heavily from beach erosion be re
duced in value from S3OO to SIOO,
or on this basis under the old valu
ation.
Gus Hultman of the NPS was
asked to represent Dare County in
the Governor’s Safety program for
car inspection.
It was ordered that a piece of
property at Wanchese, formerly
owned by the late A. T. Williams,
but taken over for taxes several
years ago, be deeded to his son,
Daly Williams, for the sum of
S2OO.
The Board asked for stabiliza
tion of the Scarborough town road
See BOARD, Page Five
CURRITUCK SPONSOR
t’* ' ■ ,
MRS. ANNETTE SAWYER,
daughter of Mrs. Russell Gallop
of Harbinger, is attending the in
augural festivities in Raleigh this
week where she will be a sponsor
at the Inaugural Ball on Wednes
day evening. Her escort will be
University of North Carolina stu
dent Melvin McLean, Jr., also of
Harbinger. Her invitation was
sponsored by Currituck Represen
tative Walton Griggs of Point Har
bor, who with Mrs. Griggs is also
attending the events of Inaugural
Week. (Aycock Brown photo)
MANTEO SCOUTS GO
STRONG IN WEEK
OF THE ANNIVERSARY
l
Many Activities to Credit of
Church Sponsored Group
With 20 Members
Boy Scout Troop 165 underwent
their annual inspection Monday
evening in preparation for regis
tration the end of this month. Ray
Collier, District Commissioner for
the Albemarle District was the in
specting officer assisted by troop
leaders. The Wolf Patrol lead by
Ray White of Manns Harbor was
the winning patrol with a score of
91 out of a possible 100 points.
February 8, marks the 47th
birthday of Scouting in America.
Scouts all over the world are also
celebrating the JOOth birthday of
Sir Robert Baden-Powell who in
1907 took a group of twenty boys
o a camp in England to try out
his idea of training boys through
games to become physically strong
and self-reliant. This was the first
Boy Scout Camp.
The local troop sponsored by the
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, has
an active membership of 20 boys
in addition to thirteen scouts from
Wanchese who have been affiliated
with Troop 165 while attempting to
organize a troop of their own.
Adult leadership is provided by
the Scoutmaster and three assist
ants, all former Scouts themselves.
Service to others is an important
part of Scouting. The troop, during
the past year, has assisted with
traffic at several funerals, helped
at the boat races and jamboree,
distributed door knob hangers prior
to Election Day urging people to
vote, and provided a color guard
See SCOUTS, Page Five
MARCH OF DIMES
FUNDS IN DARE
CLIMB- TO S9OO
Several Communities Not Heard
From; Largest Amount Raised
by Manteo School
Approximately S9OO has been
raised to date for the 1957 March
of Dimes in Dare County, accord
ing to a report this week by the
county chairman, Mrs. B. J. Baum.
The largest sum was turned in to
the Manteo school, funds having
been l-aised by them from Roanoke
Island, Stumpy Point, Manns Har
bor, East Lake, Mashoes, Nags
Head, Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil
Hills. The total raised by the
school was $746.82. Prizes were of
fered for grades turning in the
largest sums. In grades one
through four Mrs. Leggett’s sec
ond grade won, having raised
$43.46. In grades five through
eight, Mrs. Meekins’ sixth grade
and Mr. Fry’s section of the eighth
grade won. Mrs. Meekins’ room
turned in $64.00, Mr. Fry’s room
$64.28. The 11th grade topped the
other high school grades, having a
total of $223.01. Mr. Ayers is their
home-room teacher.
Mrs. Edgar Perry, chairman for
the Kill Devil Hills-kitty Hawk
area, has turned in $84.67. Os this
amount $48.73 was raised by the
Boy Scouts and $35.84 by the Kilty
Hawk school.
Stumpy Point has raised $46.52.
These amounts, added to money
raised by coin boxes and direct
mail contributions bring the total
to approximately S9OO. The Hat
teras Island communities have not
yet been heard from, as well as
several others. The quota allotted
Dare County is SI6OO.
PATRICK H. MILLER, 54 OF
COLINGTON DIES MONDAY
Patrick Henry Miller, 54, life
long resident of Colington Island
died at 4:45 Monday afternoon at
his home after a long illness. He
was a fisherman, the son of the
late William Hugh and Cynthia
Midgett Miller, and the husband of
Mrs. Odessa Crank Miller. The
body was removed to Twiford’s
Funeral Home in Manteo pending
funeral arrangements. He was
born Sept. 9th, 1902.
Surviving him are four sons and
two daughters, pH of Colington.
William H., James Edward, Russell
| Lee, Lonnie H., Mrs. James Hamil
ton and'Miss Nellie Faye Miller.
HATTERAS MEETING FEB. 10
TO PLAN FOR JAMBOREE
In order to begin planning for
the big event of the year on Hat
teras Island, which will be tne
World’s greatest fish fry of tKe
Third Annual Dare Coast Pirate’s
Jamboree, a meeting will be held
Sunday, February 10th at the At
lantic View Hotel at Hatteras, ac
cording to William Gibson, who
heretofore has served as chairman
of the event.
A full attepdance of the Hat
teras Island committee which for
two years has done such a good
job in arranging this affair, is re
quested at this meeting.
MANY COMMITTEES GO INTO
ACTION AS PUNS FORM FOR
PIRATE JAMBOREE IN APRIL
Four-Day Festival Begins With Croatan Bridge
Celebration and Picnic, and Embraces Hatter
as and Nags Head Events between Thursday
and Sunday; Many State Officials Expected
to Attend.
ANOTHER NATIVE RETURNS
TO HAPPY ISLAND HOME
Jr
Ocracoke, Feb. 4, 1957.
“Breathes there the rtian.with soul
so dead. Who never to himself hath
said: ‘This is my own, my native
land.’ ”
Another Ocracoker has come
back to his native land. After over
forty years with the Corps of En
gineers, U. S. Army, Capt. Neafie
B. Scarborough, Construction and
Maintenance Superintendent o f
Rivers and Harbors, Philadelphia
District, has come back home to
spend the rest of his days amid
the scenes of his childhood.
Capt. Scarborough was bom at
Ocracoke in 1899, the son of Thad
deus W. and Mary Jackson Scar
borough, both now deceased. He at
tended the little island school and
then enrolled in Washington Col
legiate Institute, Washington, N.
C. This completed his formal edu
cation, but he continued his studies
in the engineering and construc
tion field through correspondence
courses. In fact he never stpoped
studying during his career, as his
ranid record of advancement indi
cates.
Like many of his fellow Ocra
cokers he started out as a fisher
man. But in March 1916 he signed
up for service with the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers as a deckhand
on the Dredge Cataract. A year
later he was made deckmate and
in two years he was dredge oper
ator. Six years later at the age of
twenty-two he was promoted to
See SCARBOROUGH, Page Five
FUNERAL THURSDAY FOR
MRS. EMMA D. MEEKINS
Funeral services were conducted
at 10:30 am. Thursday in the
chapel of the Twiford Funeral
Home at Manteo for Mrs. Emma
D. Meekins 78, who died Tuesday
in a Manteo nursing home after a
long illness. She had been a resi
dent of Rodanthe for about 60
years, the widow of the late John
A. Meekins, a prominent Dare
County man, who was for many
years a member of the Dare Coun
ty Board of Commissioners and a
retired Coast Guardsman who died
in December 1952. The services
were conducted by Rev. P. M. Por r
ter of Tyner, a former pastor of
Fairhaven Methodist Church of
Rodanthe, and interment followed
in the afternoon in the Meekins
cemetery at Rodanthe.
Mrs. Meekins was born at Col
ington on August 19,1878 daughter
of the late Daniel adn Angeline
Stetson Meekins who later resided
in lower Currituck County. She is
survived by one son,, Lt. Alton W.
Meekins USCG of Portsmouth, Va.,
a daughter, Mrs. Ernest G. Davis
of Norfolk, and by four grandchil
dren, and by many nephews and
nieces.
MANTEO REBEKAHS HEAR
HISTORY OF VALENTINE
The Manteo Rebekahs met Mon
day night with Mrs. Ray Lewis,
Noble Grand, presiding. In the ab
sence of Mrs. Delores Ward, who
was to have led the program, Mrs.
Tracy Ward presented an interest
ing program on the history and
poetry of St. Valentine’s Day.
It was announced that the dis
trict Rebekah meeting will be held
on March 2 at the Carolinian Ho
tel, Nags Head. Registration will
begin at 10 a.m. and there will be
a luncheon at noon. If anyone needs
a ride, or can so accommodate any
one else, she is asked to call Mrs.
Margie White at Manteo 166-W.
Single Copy Ts
By AYCOCK BROWN
Dedication of the William B.
Umstead Memorial Bridge connect
ing Roanoke Island and Manns
Harbor followed by the third an
nual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree
may be the biggest events held dur
ing mid-spring in Dare County.
Scheduled to begin on Thursday,
April 26, the dedication and cele
bration will continue through Sun
day, April 28, and take in all sec
tions of the county.
Governor Luther H. Hodges has
been invited to head the list of dis
tinguished guests along with the
Highway Commission, and mem
bers of the North Carolina General
Assembly now in session at Ra
leigh.
For Governor Hodges and Mrs.
Hodges, it would be their third vis
it to the Pirates Jamboree. Last
year the State’s first family took
in phases of the Jamboree on Hat
teras and the Dare Beaches.
Plans for the bridge dedication
begin the program on Roanoke Is
land, proceeding to the 2.7 mile
long bridge for an official ribbon
cutting and thence to Manns Har
bor for addresses by distinguished
guests followed by a gigantic pic
nic dinner. Behind the bridge cele
bration plans is the Southern Al
bemarle Association, and its pres
ident, Melvin R. Daniels of Man
teo. •
Jamboree Committees
At a meeting Sunday afternoon
presided over by W. H. McCown
of Nags Head and Scotty Gibson
of Hatteras some 30 or more per
sons on committees of the Pirates
Jamboree met at The Carolinian to
discuss the proposed program. The
Jamboree officially starts on Fri
day, April 26, on Hatteras Island.
Present at the meeting from Hat
teras Island were: Gibson, A. H.
Gray, W. W. Edwards, Stockton
Midgett, Wheeler Ballance, Lloyd
Styron, Edgar Styron, Clam Stowe
and Edison Meekins. The Hatteras
committeemen will meet on Sun
day, February 10 at the Atlantic
View Hotel to discuss plans for
their phase of the program.
Others present included: John
Donoho, Mrs. Thomas Chears, Mr.
and Mrs. Pat Bayne, George Sides.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Briggs, Mr. and
Mrs. Orville Baum, Julian Oneto,
Robert Young, Lawrence Swain,
Mrs. Jean Beacham, Dr. and Mrs.
Wallace Mustian, Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Perry, Ras Westcott, Mrs.
Julia Gray and Dick Jordan.
An initial phase of the Jamboree
is already visible as many men
begin growing their beards. John
Donoho is chairman of the com
mittee on beard growing and
Woody Fearing, Manteo, Edison
Meekins, Hatteras, Orville Baum
See JAMBOREE, Page Five
MRS. HORATIO G. MIDGETT, A
BELOVED WOMAN OF WAVES
One of the most beloved women
of the island died Friday morning
at her home m Waves on Hatteras
Island, following a four day illness
and stroke. Mrs. Mogie Midgett, 66,
one of two children of the late
Edward S. and Nathan Ann Mid
gett, outlived her brother G. A.
Midgett by only 34 days. She was
the wife of Horatio G. Midgett, and
both a lifelong resident of the com
munity and a member of Fairhaven
Methodist Church, where the serv
ices wire conducted Sunday a’ 11
am. by Rev. B. E. Bingham, the
pastor.
She was a child of good people,
had lived a Christian life, was a
highly esteemed neighbor, and a
willing and helpful worker in those
various community endeavors that
are so successfully carried on by
womenfolk. She was loyal to her
church and had twice attend id
services in her church the Sunday
before her illness. She was a good
homemaker and the home "he made
for herself and her husband was
a model one.
She is survived only by her hus
band.
There were many floral offer
ings paying loving tribute to Mrs.
Midgett at Sunday’s funeral serv
ices. Favorite hymns were sung:
“I Think of the Home Over There,”
“Precious Memories,” and at the
graveside “Abide With Me,” by the
choir, with Mrs. Jack Cahoon, ac
companist. The pall was of white
carnations, red gladioli and fern.
Pallbearers were David B. Midgett,
McClellan Midgett, Johnny Beck,
Horatio Beck, Dalton Midgett and
Asa Gray Jr.
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