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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1958
Page
5
Funeral notices report the deaths of Mrs. Jennie H. Gaddy 72 of Pine Valley Road wife of a daughter Mrs James L. Horne. Mrs Adeline Blake Ferguson 83 of Moon Street. Gurney Francis White Cook 61 of High Point Memorial Hospital. Services were conducted across Camden Winston areas with multiple clergymen. Interments followed in church or cemetery plots.
Grace Margaret Nance Leonard 55, of 310 Phillips St Thomasville, died at City Memorial Hospital at 4 26 am after six months of illness. Born May 15 1905 in Sopaty she was daughter of Florence McCaskill Nance and widow of Marvin M Leonard. Survived by five sons Hubert Glenn Joestein Jerry and Gene Leonard. four daughters Patsy Gail Claude Edding er and Curry Regan. one brother Glenn Nance. three sisters Clem Tate C E Daniels and Dewey Boyles. two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral at Park Place Baptist Church Tuesday at 3 pm with burial in Holly Hills Cemetery. Body to home at 6 pm today.
The judge ordered Warren Van Meter a 64 year old Arcadia California businessman to leave town after he was convicted of toting a six gun on the streets and pointing a loaded revolver at a passing motorist. He was fined 250 dollars for possessing a deadly weapon.
Jacob Grubb, 63, died at Veterans Hospital in Swannanoa late Saturday. He was born in Davie County and survived by his wife Cora Anna Murrell Grubb, a half brother Spencer Grubb of West Virginia, and a half sister Lu lar Burnette of his home. Funeral services are set for 12 p.m. Tuesday at Piedmont Funeral Home with graveside rites at No Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery at 3 p.m. conducted by Elders F. R. Moore and Wesley Fagg.
In Thomasville a 1956 car driven by Fred Alford 25 north on Tremont collided after hitting a road bump. Passenger Hallis Rikett 27 of High Street sustained a bruised right arm and was taken to hospital. Car damage $75 depot damage $10. Alford charged with speeding and reckless driving.
In Anderson George Washington Fletcher Sr. 53 juvenile court judge from Hendersonville NC and Gilbert Taylor 25 of Pelzer died in a Sunday wreck that injured six. Fletcher rode with his son G W Fletcher Jr. 24 while Taylor rode with Paul Harrison 17. Harrison car entered highway from a side road when the collision happened.
Mrs Peggy C Grimes of Ashmore Business College was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Business Colleges at Durham. Other officers named include W Richard Ross Leonard Loy Wilmer P Wilson and R A Evans plus Howard Honeycutt as directors. Next year’s convention will be in Richmond Virginia.
Perkinson's jewelry store earned top honors in the Retail Act Competition for cities over 25 000 population. Winners were announced at the North Carolina Merchants Association annual meeting and con test winners received their awards at a luncheon.
Mrs. Donnie Alfred Cox, 78, of Ramseur died at home after several months of illness. Survived by three sons Lester Jesse and Rufus Cox two daughters Mrs. Glenn Craven and Mrs. Ferree Trodgan one sister Mrs. Florence Stevenson 14 grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Funeral 2:30 p.m. today at Loflin Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernest Page and Garland Bennett officiating burial in Pleasant One Christian.
Do You Remember Way Back When compiles social notes from a North Carolina area. The column lists Mr. and Mrs. Grubb traveling to Atlanta, Phi Gamma Delta activities, families visiting Farmville and Paradise Point, UNC student Holt McPherson, new class presidents at High Point College, Mrs. Norman Fidler sailing for England, Priscilla Club meeting, and Rialto Theatre manager Leonard Nunn moving to Pittsburg for a new post.
Cherryville native Lillian Raper Harrelson died Sunday aged 72. Born in High Point she was daughter of A O and Nora Raper. Survived by husband Vernon, son Everett, two grandchildren, two brothers, one sister, two half sisters, one half brother and step mother. Funeral at First Baptist Church Cherryville Tuesday at 2 pm with interment in a Cherryville cemetery.
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