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PEARL HASTY
RALEIGH -- Pearl Hasty of 5421 Louisburg Road, died Monday [June 9, 1997].
Funeral service 12 p.m. Thursday at Halifax Missionary Baptist Church.
Burial, Carolina Biblical Gardens.
Surviving are granddaughter, Jacqueline Utley Williams of Raleigh; grandson, Michael Utley of Raleigh; two great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a daughter-in-law, Martha J. Utley of Raleigh.
Visitation at the church 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday.
A Lea Funeral Home service, 231-1000.
JOHN ANDERSON HONEYCUTT
RALEIGH -- John Anderson Honeycutt, 80, of 6208 Johnsdale Road, died early Tuesday morning, June 10, 1997 at his residence, after many years of declining health.
Mr. Honeycutt was a retired owner of Honeycutt's Grocery Store, Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh.
Funeral service 11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, 1997 at L. Harold Poole Funeral Service Chapel, Knightdale.
Burial, Wake Cross Roads Baptist Church Cemetery, 3329 Forestville Road, Raleigh, NC 27616.
Surviving: daughter, Brenda J. Pleasants and her friend, James A. Wall of Knightdale; special friend, Charlotte Deans of Garner; brothers, Allen Jackson Honeycutt, Jr. of Wake Forest, Thomas A. Honeycutt of Raleigh; sister, Margaret L. Honeycutt of Raleigh; grandchildren, Tracy Joyce Raper, Jimmy Wall; six nieces; four nephews; special family members, Peggy, Debbie, Steve, Donna and Sheree.
Mr. Honeycutt was preceded in death by his parents, A.J. Honeycutt and Lottie Holden Honeycutt; brothers, Robert A. Honeycutt and Frank A. Honeycutt; sisters, Mary H. Lowery and Lillian H. Ferguson.
Family will receive relatives and friends from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, 1997 at L. Harold Poole Funeral Service and Crematory, 944 Old Knight Road, Knightdale, NC, and other times at the home.
Flowers are accepted, but contributions may be made to Olde Mount Vernon Church, 11610 Durant Road, Raleigh, NC 27615.
MARY T. JACKSON
DURHAM -- Mary Taggart Jackson, 84, died Monday, June 9, 1997.
She was the daughter of John Bristol Taggart and Virginia Clinger Taggart, Tulsa, OK, born December 4, 1912.
Mary was a graduate of Duke University, class of 1935, a member of the Junior League of Durham, and Orange County, a member of the Halcyon Literary Club and a member of the Epworth United Methodist Church of Durham.
She is survived by her husband, David K. Jackson; son, David Bristol Jackson and his wife, Lael Jackson; daughter, Mrs. Thomas H. Lee; sister, Harriet Taggart Pearse; two grandsons, Thomas H. Lee, Jr. and David Jackson Lee and his wife, Wendi Lee.
Memorial service will be held on Thursday, June 12, at 11 a.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church in Durham.
The family will receive friends at the church following the memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Epworth United Methodist Church, 3002 Hope Valley Road, Durham, N.C.
Arrangements are by the Cremation Society of the Carolinas, Inc.
LILLIAN LASSITER
RALEIGH -- Mrs. Lillian Lassiter of 2360 Stevens Rd., died Monday, June 9, 1997.
Funeral service to be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Haywood Funeral Home chapel.
Burial to follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Survivors: daughter, Mildred M. Pearson; son, James Lassiter; sister, Hazel Pulley, all of Raleigh; 12 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren.
Wake on Wednesday at the funeral home from 7-8 p.m.
DR. BETTY H. LONG
CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Betty Lee Hubbard Long, 67, of Whitehead Circle, died Monday [June 9, 1997] at her residence.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at Church of the Holy Family Episcopal Church, where she was a member and had served as parish secretary.
Mrs. Long was a native of Florida, and a retired clinical psychologist, having served at VA Medical in Durham, and later at Alamance County Hospital.
She is survived by her husband, Dr. Eugene Long, Jr.; daughter, Melissa Jean Long of Austin, TX; brother and sister-in-law, Paul and Sylvia Hubbard, Jr.; niece, Carol Hubbard of Boston, MA; nephew, Phillip Hubbard of St. Louis, MO.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charity of the donors' choice.
Walkers Funeral Home of Chapel Hill is in charge of arrangements.
HARRY C. MASON
DURHAM -- Retired Rear Admiral Harry C. Mason, 80, died suddenly Friday, June 6, [1997] in Durham.
Admiral Mason retired in 1972 from the Navy as commanding officer of the Naval Ship Engineering Center in Hyattsville, MD, a group which then encompassed the engineering talent involved in the design, building, and support of naval ships. For the final half of his naval career, he was an Engineering Duty Officer whose principal jobs were in research and development and in the management of industrial or engineering functions of the Navy Bureau of Ships.
A graduate of the Naval Academy in 1938, Admiral Mason helped sail Vamarie to Bermuda, the first year the Naval Academy raced there in 1938. In 1949, he earned his Master's Degree in engineering electronics from the Navy Postgraduate School then in Annapolis.
During his first 15 years in the Navy, Admiral Mason was a seagoing officer, principally in cruisers and destroyers. He joined USS Nashville (CL43) as an ensign in 1938 and left her as a lieutenant commander in 1944. Nashville was part of the task force that launched Doolittle's raiders to Japan, and General Douglas MacArthur rode Nashville as his flagship in several invasions.
In 1944, Admiral Mason became executive officer of the USS Brush (DD745), operating as the first of the radar pickets for the force.
In 1945, as World War II ground to an end, he became commanding officer of USS Wadsworth (DD516), part of the invasion force of Okinawa. Wadsworth remained in Japan until November 1945.
Admiral Mason's final naval command afloat was as commanding officer of USS Nicholas (DDE 449) during the Korean War. He considered that command his most rewarding assignment, and the ship's call sign, "Sandals," was the name given to the sailboat he and his wife sailed to Bahamas every other year from 1978-1990.
He and his family lived in Falls Church, VA, during his assignments in the Washington area from 1955-1960 and 1965-1972. He moved to Annapolis, in 1973, where he remained until his marriage to Jean Coward in 1991 when he moved to Whispering Pines, NC. In April of 1997 they moved to Durham, NC.
Admiral Mason's wife of nearly 50 years. Mary Elizabeth Mason, died in 1990.
His survivors include his wife, Jean Coward Mason of Durham; his son, Larry C. Mason of Grass Valley, CA; his daughters, Jane Anne Poole of Davis, CA, Linda Murphy and Carol Mason, both of Annapolis, MD; stepsons, retired navy Captain Asbury Coward, IV of Annapolis and Curtis Coward of Reston, VA; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at the Naval Academy Chapel at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Gifts in memory of Admiral Mason may be sent to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 162 Prince George Street, Annapolis, MD 21401.
PATTIE T. McFARLAND
OXFORD -- Mrs. Pattie Tunstall McFarland, 85, of 114 Forest Ave., died Monday, June 9 [1997] in Hillcrest Convalescent Center, Durham, NC. A native of Granville County, the daughter of the late Robert and Tazzie Eakes Tunstall and a member of Oxford Baptist Church.
Funeral service will be conducted at Gentry-Newell & Vaughan Funeral Chapel 11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, by the Rev. Dr. J. Steven Bolton. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery.
Surviving: three daughters, Lillian McFarland Hicks of Durham, Lelia McFarland Frazier of Roanoke Rapids, Martha McFarland Russell of New Bern; sister, Louise T. Parks of Henderson; six grandchildren.
In lieu o f flowers, memorials may be made to Oxford Baptist Church, P.O. Box 398, Oxford, NC 27565.
Family will be at funeral home Wednesday 7-8:30 p.m.; and at other times at the home.
JOHN F. McGUIRE
RALEIGH -- Mr. John F. McGuire of 2403 Bedford Avenues, died Friday, June 6, 1997. Funeral service to be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Wilson Temple U.M. Burial to follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Survivors: daughters, Grace Howell of New York City and Johnsie Crawford of Long Island, NY; sons-in-law, Robert Howell of New York City; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; one niece; several nephews and other relatives and friends.
Special thanks to Virginia Nichols and Family.
Visitation 1:30-2 p.m. Thursday at the church.
DR. ANDER M. "BOOTS" MUMFORD
GREENVILLE-- Dr. Ander Morgan "Boots" Mumford, 81, died Tuesday, June 10, 1997 at his home in Greenville.
The funeral service will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Hugh Burlington. Entombment will be in Pinewood Mausoleum.
Dr. Mumford was born on January 13, 1916 in Ayden, to Mr. and Mrs. Heber Gardner Mumford. He grew up in Ayden, graduating from Ayden High School in 1932 as class historian. He attended Wake Forest College from 1933 until 1939, and graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and Medicine. He obtained his medical degree in 1941 from Jefferson Memorial College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and interned with Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia.
On December 21, 1941, Dr. Mumford married Bedie Price and from 1942 until 1946, he served in the United States Army, attaining the rank of captain. He entered general medical practice in 1946 in Winterville, North Carolina, served as President of the Pitt County Medical Society in 1949 and 1958, and was chief of Obstetrics from 1953 until 1955.
From 1959 until 1962 Dr. Mumford specialized in Otorhinolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) at Duke Medical Center. He returned to Greenville in 1962 and started a new practice, which became Pitt Ear, Nose and Throat. He was an active member of the American Medical Association and the Pitt County Medical Society. He served as Chief of Staff for Pitt County Memorial Hospital from 1965 until 1966. He retired from his full-time practice in 1982.
Dr. Mumford was an active member of Immanuel Baptist Church, where he served as deacon, Sunday School teacher and was a member of the Men's Bible Class. He was also a former member of the Greenville Kiwanis Club.
He is survived by: his wife, Bedie P. Mumford; daughter and son-in-law, Ginny and Jim Temple of Marshallberg; granddaughters and sons-in-law, Bedie and Ron Kohake of Winterville, Laura and David Warren of Winterville; great-granddaughter, Morgan Warren of Winterville; brother, Harry G. Mumford of Ayden.
The family will receive friends Wednesday, from 7-9 p.m. at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1101 S. Elm Street, Greenville, NC 27858.
HOWARD ROSSON OLDHAM
RALEIGH -- Howard R. Oldham of Raleigh, born to Virginia Jenkins and Robert Lee Oldham of Goldston, Chatham County, died Tuesday [June 10, 1997].
The fourth son among five brothers and five sisters, he worked on the family farm until taking ship with the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Shipping Co. as an assistant steward. While transporting lumber, soybeans and Brazilian coffee, his ship rammed a dock near Los Angeles where it was put in for repairs.
Howard left the merchant fleet and returned to North Carolina, where he attended N.C. State University in Raleigh.
Leaving North Carolina for New York, in 1928, he joined the Horn and Hardart Restaurant Companies and married Emma Ann Dark of Siler City, bringing his bride to live in New York City. He became general manager of the restaurant chain at age 35, superintending restaurant service until his retirement in 1972.
Returning to Raleigh, Howard and Emma traveled throughout South America, representing the International Executive Service Corps.
Howard was predeceased by Emma and his only daughter, Janice.
He is survived by his wife of sixteen years, Katharine P. Oldham; son, Arthur Oldham and his wife, Karen; stepdaughter, Eva Williams; sisters, Delcie Davis of Goldston, Bertha Lloyd of Raleigh, Helen Eppley of Vienna, VA.; grandchildren, Christopher and Matthew Oldham, Kerry Rochefort and May Kropp; great-granddaughters, Kate Oldham and Cora Kropp.
Memorial service will be held at White Memorial Presbyterian Church on Friday, June 13, at 11 a.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to White Memorial Presbyterian Church's Outreach Programs, 1704 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, N.C. 27608.
