In Memoriam

ALUMNI

1930s
Eloise C. Melton ’35 of Burlington, N.C., on Oct. 16, 2017.

1940s
Virginia S. Barfield ’46 of Merry Hill, N.C., on Jan. 10, 2018.
Josephine E. Bullock ’46 of Robersonville, N.C., on Oct. 22, 2017.
Mildred Griffin ’43 ’60 of Greensboro, N.C., on Jan. 27, 2017.
Ann S. Cottrell ’48 of Satterwhite, N.C., on Jan. 12, 2018.
Jesse Mayo Lamm ’48 ’49 of Lumberton, N.C., on Nov. 8, 2017.
Dahlia A. Lautares ’46 of Greenville, N.C., on Aug. 29, 2017.
Hilda McDonald ’45 of Elkin, N.C., on Jan. 29, 2018.
Alice C. Richardson ’45 of Durham, N.C., on Aug. 18, 2017.
Annie B. Stovall ’40 of Sanford, N.C., on Aug. 23, 2017.
Wilma Dean Tilley ’44 of Oxford N.C., on Aug. 19, 2017.
Mary W. Vars ’48 of Greenville, N.C., on Jan. 21, 2017.
Myrtle Westmoreland ’41 of Statesville, N.C., on Feb. 3, 2018.
Ruth Lassiter Wilson ’47 of Greenville, S.C., on Aug. 31, 2017.
John D. Zeh ’49 of Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 28, 2017.

1950s
Frances Aiken ’59 of Eden, N.C., on Jan. 7, 2018.
Charles H. Armstrong ’57 of La Plata, Md., on Dec. 2, 2017.
Daphne J. Askew ’50 of Ahoskie, N.C., on Feb. 12, 2018.
Mildred C. Boyd ’52 of Durham, N.C., on Dec. 4, 2017.
Dorothy E. Branch ’57 ’62 of Canonsburg, Pa., on Jan. 27, 2018.
Jack Britt ’53 ’54 of Fayetteville, N.C., on Dec. 22, 2017.
Francis Bailey Dean ‘56 of Oxford, N.C., on March 21.
Robert Gerald Jones ’57 of Williamston, N.C., on Oct. 17, 2017.
Wilton G. Joyner ’50 ’53 of Greenville, N.C., on Sept 11, 2017.
Anne Whitehurst Keel ’52 ’55 of Tarboro, N.C., on Feb. 8, 2018.
Merle Phillips Kirby ’53 of Hoke/Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Jan. 9, 2018.
Dottie J. Knight ’58 ’85 of Greenville, N.C., on Aug. 22, 2017.
David L. Martin ’55 of Greenville, N.C., on Oct. 7, 2017.
Lee R. McDonald ’59 of Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 23, 2017.
John Franklin Nelson ’58 of Morehead City, N.C., on Jan. 8, 2018.
William Redfearn ’57 of Swansboro, N.C., on Aug. 15, 2017.
Mitchell L. Saieed, ’54, of Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 18, 2017.
Pearl M. Settlemyre ’56 of Raleigh, N.C., on Jan. 20, 2018.
Mary Frances Peterson Thrift ’54 of New Bern, N.C., on Sept. 30, 2017.
Herbert “Bud” Wheless ’58 of Greenville, N.C., on Sept 20, 2017.
Cecil Winslow ’52 of Hertford, N.C., on Nov. 2, 2017.

1960s
M. Ray Baker ’69 of Granite Falls, N.C., on Jan. 27, 2018.
Betty Anne Hardy Benfield ’61 of Winterville, N.C., on Oct. 20, 2017.
Meredith M. Bostic ’67 of North Topsail Beach, N.C., on Dec. 29, 2017.
Vivian Lee Clark ’62 of Rocky Mount, N.C., on Jan. 19, 2018.
Alice “Nita” Cochran ’64 ’79 of Weldon, N.C., on Jan. 31, 2018.
Earl W. Deal ’60 of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 31, 2017.
Sarah Drenan ’69 of Reston, Va., on Jan. 27, 2018.
Bybe D. Graham ’64 of Raleigh, N.C., on Nov. 23, 2017.
John W. Griffin ’62 of Jacksonville, N.C., on Oct. 8, 2017.
Phoebe R. Hawes ’63 of Bolivia, N.C., on Oct. 6, 2017.
Wayland G. “Pete” Hunter ’66 of Hertford, N.C., on Feb. 3, 2018.
Virginia M. Hurst ’65 of Staunton, Va., on Sept. 10, 2017.
Larry T. Jones ’68 of Lillington, N.C., on Jan. 26, 2018.
Donald R. Joyner ’65 of Lynn Haven, Fla., on Sept. 13, 2017.
Janet Taylor Moore ’68 ’77 of Tarboro, N.C., on Dec. 25, 2017.
Alice P. Oglesby ’62 of Winterville, N.C., on Nov. 11, 2017.
Rufus D. Owens ’66 of Raleigh, N.C., on Feb. 2, 2018.
Alma Lou Pierce ’64 of Zebulon, N.C., on Jan. 13, 2018.
Joseph C. Purcell ’60 ’63 ’85 of Raleigh, on Dec. 29, 2017.
Julia Carolyn Dixon Stout ’60 of Wilmington, N.C., on Feb. 4, 2018.
Elbert Townsend ’64 of Wilmington, N.C., on Sept. 13, 2017.
Edna R. Watson ’68 of Roseboro, N.C., on Aug. 19, 2017.
Betty Jean Williamson ’65 of Whiteville, N.C., on Oct. 26, 2017.

1970s
Constance L. Barbee ’70 of Pinehurst, N.C., on Oct. 24, 2017.
Connie Minges Bond ’75 of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 11, 2017.
Robert Blaine Cargile ’75 of Robersonville, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2017.
Nellie B. Carpenter ’75 of Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 25, 2017.
Madge S. Chamness ’72 ’77 of Greenville, N.C., on Sept. 12, 2017
Joseph Edward Collins Jr. ’75, of Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 10, 2017.
Carol Corbett ’70 of Germantown, Md., on Jan. 19, 2018.
Walter J. Daniel ’73 ’76 of Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 22, 2017.
Henry B. Grant ’72 ’74 of Rocky Mount, N.C., on Dec. 1, 2017.
Walter Harris ’76 ’84 of Belvoir, N.C., on Oct. 24, 2017.
Sherwood Miller Harrison ’75 of New Bern, N.C., on Sept. 1, 2017.
Kenneth Hutcherson ’77 of Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 27, 2017.
Dennis Parker Lynch ’73 of Pinehurst, N.C., on Oct. 5, 2017.
Floyd McCullough ’75 of Goldsboro, N.C., on Jan. 13, 2018.
George W. Millis ’77 of Wilmington, N.C., on Sept. 9, 2017.
Beverly F. Moore ’76 ’86 of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 21, 2017.
John Nichols ’71 of Vanceboro, N.C., on July 2, 2017.
Robert C. Tart ’71 ’78 of Wallace, N.C., on Oct. 27, 2017.
Bobby Tripp ’76 of Greenville, N.C., on Sept. 5, 2017.
Jimmie Webb ’73 of Buxton, N.C., on Oct. 30, 2017.
William T. Whitehurst ’73 of Halifax, N.C., on Nov. 14, 2017.

1980s
Margaret Phelps Brown, ’87, of Morehead City, N.C., on Sept. 21, 2017.
James David Carr ’88 ’94 of Farmville, N.C., on Sept. 2, 2017.
Ann R. Dunn ’83 ’87 of New Bern, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2017.
Walt Gurganus ’83 of Greenville, N.C., on Oct. 22, 2017.
Marcy Crumbacker Moore ’86 ’89 of Cary, N.C., on Feb. 9, 2018.
Kelly D. Isaacs ’86 of Holly Springs, N.C., on Sept. 17, 2017.
Arlene Burke-Morgan ’89 of Minneapolis, Minn., on Dec. 16, 2017
Samuel Glenn Smith ’82 of Winterville, N.C., on Oct. 14, 2017.
Ragan Spain ’88 ’89 ’92 of Winterville, N.C., on Nov. 21, 2017.
Ronda Sweet ’87 of Woodbridge, Va., on Jan. 25, 2018.
Rebecca Elizabeth “Becky” Thompson ’84 of Wilmington, N.C., on Jan. 22, 2018.
Louise Wainright ’82 of Winterville, N.C., on Jan. 27, 2018.
Melba R. Webster ’89 of of Laurinburg, N.C., on Oct. 6, 2017.

1990s
Deborah Lynn Downes Ambert ’92 ’02 of Wilson, N.C., on Jan. 8, 2018.
Jane Bryan ’92 of Vanceboro, N.C., on Jan. 1, 2018.
John Chance ’90 of Goldsboro, N.C., on Jan. 1, 2018.
Claire Culbreath ’95 of Winston-Salem, N.C., on Jan. 1, 2018.
Matthew Jones Duffy ’97 of Roswell, Ga., on Jan. 17, 2018
Alton E. “Butch” McLawhorn ’83 of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 11, 2017.
Xymena Solano ’99 of Statesville, N.C., on Sept. 8, 2017.

2000s
Susan White Butler ’03 ’08 of Williamston, N.C., on Oct. 3, 2017.
Anne Miller Daniel ’01 of Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 22, 2017.
Shedora Daughtry ’09 of Windsor, N.C., on Jan. 1, 2018.
Shelby James Holt ’07 of Winterville, N.C., on Dec. 31, 2017.
Cheryl Lynn Schwartz ’05 of Burlington, N.C., on Sept. 29, 2017.

2010s
Kisha Murphy Harrington ’12 of Grimesland, N.C., on Feb. 10, 2018

STUDENTS

Simmie Ione Marie Byrd of Garner, N.C., on Nov. 8, 2017.
Kent W. Dahlsten of Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 5, 2018.
Destani May of Gastonia, N.C., on Dec. 10, 2017.
Turner Shafer of Grimesland, N.C., on Oct. 27, 2017.
Annalisa Schulze of Wake Forest, N.C., on Aug. 8, 2017.

FACULTY/STAFF

Charles Frederick Bath (music) of Greenville, N.C., on Jan. 17, 2018.
Austin Warren Bunch (administration) of Greenville, N.C., on Aug. 9, 2017.
John Ellen Jr. (history) of Gastonia. N.C., on Aug. 30, 2017.
Robert Fulghum (medicine) of Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 25, 2017.
George F. Hamilton (physical therapy) of Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 24, 2017.
Thomas Johnson (health and human performance) of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 10, 2017.
Floyd Mattheis (education) of Greenville, N.C., on Sept. 1, 2017.
Mary Alice Miller (faculty excellence) of Ayden, N.C., on Nov. 24, 2017.
Judy Tripp (Mendenhall) of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 11, 2017.
Florence Stacy Weaver (education) of Winston-Salem, N.C., on Jan. 13, 2018.
Douglas Wilms (geography) of Greenville, N.C., on Dec. 3, 2017.