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mwt'•oThe death of John C Dockery at his home in Buckingham last Saturday morning is peculiarly sad. Of robust frame, a strong constitution, active, and but 41 years old, his passing appears especially untimely.Friends knew that Mr. Dockery was a very ill man, but the fact that pneumonia had grasped such a hold upon him was not realized by his friends. And so when the word came that John Dockery had died Saturday morning at 6 o’clock it was a shock. Well and vigorousjjust ten days before, attacked by influenza an Feb. 10th. seized with pneumonia on tiie 17th, and then his death on the 21st—this in brief outlines the uncertainties of life.The funeral was held Sunday morning at eleven from the Baptist Church. The pall bearers were John L. Everett, W. R. Land, L. M. Williams, Ozmer L. Henry, Fred. W. Bynum, Don L. Phillips, J. A. McAulay and John McNair. Rev. Bruce Benton, his pastor, conducted the service. Mrs. Benton was at the organ, and the following quartette, Mrs. Frank Leak, Mrs. William Covington, Stansill Covington and Merritt Head, sang “Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand, Some Time We’ll Understand, and Nearer My God to Thee. The altar was banked with flowers, these coming from far and near.The interment was at Old Eastside cemetery, and the flowers were so numerous that many designs were placed on the graves of his father and brother, H. C. and Settle.Low clouds covered the heavens Sunday, and during the funeral services a cold steady drizzle fell —the heavens seeming to weep that a virile citizen had departed.John Covington Dockery was bom March 1st, 1879, son of Henry C. and Fannie Covington Dockery. On Feb. 15, 1906, he was happily married to Miss Ellen West, of Raleigh. She with four children survive; they are: Nicholas West, John C. Jr., Eleanor West and Betsy Sairfax. Mrs. Dockery and the four children were sick with flu at the same time that Mr. Dockery was ill; but she and they are rapidly, recovering now.Also surviving him are his sister, Mrs. Nettie Dockery Hay-Wood, of Raleigh; his step-mother, Mrs. H. C. Dockery, and four half-brothers and sisters-William and Henry Dockery, Mrs. C. K. Waddill and Miss Sarah Lilly Dockery.He was a director in the Bank of Pee Dee, a member of the city school trustees and a deaccn in the Baptist church, to which he united when a youth; he was also treasurer of the Baptist church, and was President of the Dock-ery-McNair Clothing Co.That John Dockery was a force I for progress in Richmond county, every one who at all knew the man, must admit. He and his associates in the Dockery-Alien Co., (of which he was the prime organizer) were engaged in the cultivation of several thousand acres of land; besides this, the company operates a large store, big gin, fertilizer [mixing plant and ice plant. In the past several months he had expanded still further, buying large | property interests between Rock’gham and Hoffman. But it was not as ar£hIlarge property owner and de-thatveloper that John Dockery is alone known; he was a forward-looking citizen, a liberal contributor to church and charity and a man who had ideals and who held his course true.- John Dockery will be missed by hundreds of poople in Richmond county.
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Rockingham Post
Rockingham, North Carolina, US
Thu, Feb 26, 1920
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