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[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] North Carolina Obituary and Death Notice Archive GenLookups.com - North Carolina Obituary and Death Notice Archive - Page 612 Posted By: GenLookups.com Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2015, at 6:08 p.m. Search Archived Marriage Records JOHN FLETCHER FISLER DEC. 8, 1923-FEB. 21, 1999 RALEIGH - John Fletcher Fisler, 75, died on Sunday, February 21, 1999 after a long battle with Parkinsons' Disease. Jack was born on a farm in Ivanhoe in Sampson County, NC, where he developed his skills and interest in basketball, baseball and his lifelong love, tennis. Mr. Fisler was an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church, USA, Member of Savannah Presbytery, a graduate of NC State University '47, and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA '50. He was a long time resident of Upper Saddle River, NJ where he was active in Little League and tennis. He served as Director of Radio and Television of the Protestant Council of New York City, 1957-1967, was Press Secretary for the Division of Race and Religion of the National Council of Churches, NYC, 1967-1969, and was Executive Director of the Laymen's National Bible Committee, NYC, 1969-1983. After three years as Minister of First Presbyterian Church, Darien, GA, he retired in 1986 and has lived in Raleigh, NC since his retirement. He was a member of Raleigh Host Lion's Club, NC State Alumni Association, the tennis league at Millbrook Exchange Park in Raleigh, American Legion Post #1, 11th Airborne Association, and Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the 11th Airborne. He was a Paratrooper during WW II and fought in the Pacific area of combat. He was pre-deceased by his daughter, Caroline Lee Fisler; his parents, Ola and Elvin Fisler; two brothers, Harry and Frank Fisler; and three sisters, Anne Norcross, Jane Smith and Margaret Roy. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Lee Anna Fisler; his daughter Katherine and husband, Stuart Jones, their children, Danielle and Carter, all of Raleigh; two sons, John, Jr. and wife Frances Fisler, of Dunn, NC; and Scott and wife Denise Fisler, and their children, Vince and Skylar, of Cochran, GA; brothers Daniel and wife Dorothy Fisler, Elmer, NJ; and Chester and wife Mary Jane Fisler, Cary, NC; and sister Marion and husband Walter Hartmann, Ivanhoe, NC; and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3120 New Hope Rd., Raleigh, NC on February 24 at 11 a.m., with the Rev. David Huffman officiating. The family will receive friends on February 23 from 4-8 p.m. at the family home 3513 Oates Dr., Raleigh, NC. A memorial service will also be held on March 1 at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Darien with the Rev. Daniel Thomas and the Rev. Donald Bobb officiating. Inurnment will follow at St. Andrews Cemetery, Darien, GA. In lieu of flowers, commemorations may be made to charities of personal choice, Parkinsons' Disease Association or to Black River Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 97, Ivanhoe, NC 28447. RALPH WALTON RALEIGH - Ralph Jr. Walton of 611 E. Garner Rd. was born on October 13, 1933 to Hiram and Lucy Rowland Walton. Ralph died Friday, February 19, 1999 at home. Funeral service to be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 24, at Haywood Funeral Home Chapel. Burial follows in Carolina Biblical Gardens. He was educated in Wake County Public Schools and at the time of his death he was self-employed. He leaves to mourn a beloved sister, Mary Myatt of the home; a brother, Eddie Walton of Raleigh; two brothers-in-law, Johnnie H. Myatt of the home and Macon Williams of Smithfield; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends; along with a special friend, Rachel Dunston of Raleigh. Wake will be at the funeral home from 12:30-1 p.m. LUCY W. BOHNSACK CLAYTON - Lucy Williams Bohnsack, 73, died Sunday, February 21 at Rex Hospital after a brief illness. Graveside service will be held Wednesday, February 24, at 11 a.m., Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. James West of Durham, officiating. She was preceded in death by her mother, Alice Sims, April 19, 1998. Surviving: one daughter, Brenda B. Willis and son-in-law, Brian K. Willis of Raleigh; one sister, Fay W. Dease of Fayetteville; two brothers, Robert L. Williams and Luther T. Williams of Clayton. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at McLaurin Funeral Home of Clayton. Memorial contributions may be made to Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Building Fund. DeMAR H. BOYLES SHELBY - Mr. DeMar H. Boyles, 71, of 625 Tina Drive, died Feb. 21, 1999 at home. He was employed with Buchan Financial Services as a salesman. He was the son of the late Greely Boyles and the late Trexie King Carpenter. He was a member of First Baptist Church, past chairman of Deacon Board, Sunday school teacher, leader of 55 Plus Group and various committees, member of Shelby Branch of Gideons of America. Funeral service 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church. Burial, Sunset Cemetery. Body will lie in state from 1:30-2 p.m. Surviving: wife, Janice Falls Boyles of the home; daughter, Rickie B. Clowney of Greenville, S.C.; sons and daughters-in-law, Buddy and Meg Boyles of Greensboro, Scott and Wendy Boyles of Raleigh; aunt, Inez Dover of Shelby; grandchildren, Daniel Boyles, Carson Boyles, Hayden Boyles, Brad Clowney, Tatum Clowney, Benjamin Boyles and JoAnna Boyles. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Bus Fund, 120 N. Lafayette St., Shelby 28150. GERTRUDE B. ELION 1918-1999 CHAPEL HILL - It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Dr. Gertrude Belle Elion, Scientist Emeritus with Glaxo Wellcome Inc., and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Elion died Sunday, February 21, at 11:30 p.m. at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was 81 years old. Dr. Elion made numerous contributions to the advancement of science and discovered many life-saving medicines including drugs used to treat leukemia, herpes, and immunity disorders. Her name appears on 45 patents. She perhaps is best known for sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings, her colleague of 40 years, with whom she worked at Burroughs Wellcome. Dr. Elion received a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in New York in 1937 and a master's degree in chemistry from New York University in 1941. Since female scientists were not accepted in academia at that time, she was unable to find a laboratory position and instead went to work teaching high school chemistry and physics, providing laboratory instruction for nurses, and testing pickles and berries for the Quaker Maid Company. Her great opportunity came when the United States entered World War II. She joined Burroughs Wellcome in 1944 as an assistant in the laboratory of Dr. George Hitchings, the man with whom she would share the Nobel Prize for Medicine 44 years later. Dr. Hitchings died at age 92, almost exactly a year ago, on February 27, 1998. Dr. Elion's diligence and dedication propelled several life-saving drugs to market. She was the first to synthesize 6-mercaptopurine (Purinethol) and thioguanine, both antileukemics; and azathioprine (Imuran), used to prevent organ transplant rejections and in treating severe rheumatoid arthritis. In fact, her work with azathioprine showed that the drug was ineffective against leukemia, but proved highly effective in suppressing the immune response. It made kidney transplantation a practical reality in the early 1960s and is now used also to treat autoimmune disorders, such as severe rheumatoid arthritis. In addition to the drugs listed above, Dr. Elion also jointly helped to discover Daraprim for malaria, Zyloprim for gout, Septra for bacterial infections and Zovirax for herpes virus infections. In 1967, she was named head of the Department of Experimental Therapy at Burroughs Wellcome. She officially retired in 1983, but maintained an office in the Elion-Hitchings Building. She remained active in research and professional organizations while holding appointments as Medical Research Professor or Pharmacology and Medicine at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although Dr. Elion never completed her doctoral work, she was awarded 25 honorary doctorate degrees from schools, among them: Brown, Duke, North Carolina State, the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest, and East Carolina, George Washington, Michigan, Hunter College, Ohio State, Columbia, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Russell Sage College. Besides the Nobel Prize, Dr. Elion was the recipient of many top awards including: the National Medal of Science, the Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society, the President's Medal from Hunter College, the Judd Award from Memorial-Sloan Kettering Institute, the Cain Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, the Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the City of Medicine Award in Durham, NC, the Discoverers Award from the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society, the Ronald H. Brown Innovator Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the AASCU, and the Lemelson/MIT Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Elion is Past President of the American Association for Cancer Research, and has served as a Presidential appointee on the National Cancer Advisory Board. She has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame. Dr. Elion is survived by three nephews, Jon, Glenn and Gary Elion; one niece, Beth Anne Elion; sister-in-law, Sheila Elion, and five grand nieces and nephews, Leslie, Leigh, Christopher, Brendan, and Douglas Elion. Memorial service will be held later this spring. Dr. Elion's family requests that donations be made in her memory to the Leukemia Society of America, 600 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Internet: https://www.leukemia.org/ NELLIE H. FOSTER SELMA - Nellie Holmes Foster, 88, died Monday. Her husband was the late Millard Chester Foster. She was a member of Branch Chapel Free Will Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Parrish Funeral Home in Selma. Entombment will be in Selma Memorial Gardens. Surviving are: three brothers, Thomas E. Holmes of Charlotte, Elwin F. Holmes of Winchester, VA, and Oliver W. Holmes of Dunn; a sister, Edna Gray Strickland of Dunn; and several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday morning from 10 to 11 a.m., immediately prior to the service. Memorial contributions may be made to Branch Chapel Free Will Baptist Church Building Fund 7438 NC 96 Highway North Selma, NC 27576. DELLA LEE McDOUGAL HAYDEN WAKE FOREST - Della Lee McDougal Hayden, 41, of 991 Jones Wynd, died Friday, February 19, 1999 at her home. She was born in Akron, Ohio and was a member of the Open Door Baptist Church. Funeral service will be held 11 o'clock, Thursday, February 25, 1999 in the Chapel of Bright Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Carter officiating. Burial will follow in Wake Forest Cemetery. Mrs. Hayden is survived by her husband, William "Bill" Hayden; children, Joshua A, Shelton of Kyoto, Japan, Della Lee Helen Hayden of the home and Nicholas Calvin Hunter Hayden of the home; parents, Della Lee and Dr. Robert Alan McDougal of Indianapolis, IN; brothers, James McDougal of Los Angeles, CA and Bruce William McDougal of Geneva, Switzerland. Memorial contributions may be made to Open Door Baptist Church, 9801 Durant road, Raleigh, NC 27616. The family will receive friends at Bright Funeral Home from 7-9 Wednesday evening. MARTHA H. "PATSY" HEDRICK GREENSBORO - Mrs. Martha Hollyday "Patsy" Hedrick, 72, of 211 West Greenway Drive North, died Monday, February 22, 1999 at her residence. Mrs. Hedrick's funeral will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, 1999, in the First Presbyterian Church. Interment will be at 4 p.m. at Calvary United Church of Christ in Thomasville. Martha Hollyday Hedrick was born in Asheville, N.C. on June 1, 1926 to the late Dr. William Murray Hollyday and Martha Wooldridge Hollyday. She had lived most of her life in Greensboro and was a member of First Presbyterian Church where she taught Sunday school and was a member of the Women's Circle Number 7. Mrs. Hedrick was a graduate of Women's College, now UNCG and taught for the Greensboro City Schools for over 30 years. She was a member of the Greensboro Historical Museum Guild, the Greensboro Symphony Guild and a sustaining member of the Greensboro Junior League. Mrs. Hedrick was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Teacher's Society, former state President of the Association of Childhood Education International and an international committee member with the Association of Childhood Education International. Mrs. Hedrick is survived by her husband of 47 years, James W. Hedrick Sr. of the home; two children, Holly Hedrick NcNeill and her husband, Jerry of Raleigh, James W. Hedrick Jr. of Charlotte; a brother, William Murray Hollyday of Asheville; one grandson, James Cameron McNeill of Raleigh. The family will receive friends 7-8:30 p.m. tonight at Forbis and Dick North Elm Street and following the service on Wednesday at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to either Hospice at Greensboro, 2500 Summitt Avenue, Greensboro, N.C. 27405; or to the American Cancer Society, 1114 Magnolia Street, Greensboro, N.C. 27401. JOHN EARLE "JACK" JONES GREENVILLE, SC - John Earle (Jack) Jones, of Fairview Avenue, formerly of Raleigh, NC died Saturday, February 20, 1999. He was born in Union, South Carolina on November 23, 1931, the son of the late John Earle Jones, Sr. and the late Eleanor Thomas Jones McCullough, widow of Fred McCullough. He was married to Phyllis Hobson, daughter of Captain Edmund Schofield and Margaret Royce Hobson, in 1954 and he is survived by their three daughters, Peggy Parker, and her husband, Bill, of Raleigh, Eleanor Jones of Los Angeles, and Betsy Jones of Chapel Hill. He is also survived by his two grandchildren, Laura and John Davenport of Raleigh. During his working career he was with General Electric and IBM as a project engineer, and Disston and Singer as Vice President of Engineering. He retired from Singer in 1987. He also operated the family tree farm on Augusta Road known as Fairview Farm. He served on the Vestry and as Warden of three Episcopal churches, Good Shepherd-Raleigh, Epiphany-Danville and as Senior Warden of Christ Episcopal Church Greenville 1988-90. Services will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, Greenville with burial at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Churchyard, Ridgeway, SC at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Memorials may be made to Christ Episcopal Church, St. Stephen's Episcopal, Ridgeway, SC, or Kanuga Conference Center, P.O. Box 250, Hendersonville, NC 28793. Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown. EMMA B. LANGSTON EUREKA - Emma Best Langston, 74, of the Faro community died Sunday. Funeral, Tuesday, 2 p.m., Shackleford Funeral Chapel, Fremont. Interment, Eureka Cemetery. Surviving: daughters, Sandy Ball of Faro and Marilyn Ivey of Fuquay-Varina; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Memorials are suggested to the Kitty Askins Hospice Center, P.O. Box 88, Goldsboro, NC 27533. DR. RUBIN F. MANESS GOLDSBORO - Dr. Rubin Franklin Maness, 48, of 111 Walnut Creek Drive, Pediatrician with Goldsboro Pediatrics, died Sunday. A native of Greensboro, he was the son of the late Riley Colon and Martha Lucille Robbins Maness. Dr. Maness was a graduate of 1972 of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a 1976 honor graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his M.D. degree. He completed his residency assignment at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and the Pediatric Allergy Elective at Duke University Medical Center in 1979. Dr. Maness was certified from the American Board of Pediatrics, the North Carolina State Department of Human Resources as a Child Medical Examiner, and the Pediatric Advanced Life Support. He was a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, North Carolina Medical Society, North Carolina Pediatric Society, Floyd W. Denny Pediatric Society and North Carolina Thoracic Society. Other Medical Staff Memberships and Faculty Appointments include, Wayne Memorial Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for the University of North Carolina. His fellowships include the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Maness was devoted to the medical profession and was very active in public service, such as: Member, Board of Directors, Tar River Region of the American Lung Association 1985-1995; Member, Board of Directors, American Lung Association of North Carolina 1987-1996; Co Medical Director of Camp Challenge, ALA endorsed State Asthma Camp 1987-present and was full time resident physician for the camp 1990-present; Vice-President of the American Lung Association 1993-1994; President of the American Lung Association of North Carolina 1994-1995; Chairman Joint ALANC-NC Thoracic Society Asthma Committee 1992-present; Representative to the Board of Directors of the National Consortium on Children's Asthma Camps 1995-present. He was a Consultant to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 1997 and Regional Liaison Physician for the national Asthma Education & Prevention Program in creating the "Practical Guide to Asthma Management". He devised asthma protocol that became the standard of treatment throughout North Carolina. He received numerous awards, including, American Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for distinguished service and dedication to the mission and goals of the "Academy" (in asthma education) and Volunteer of the Year on behalf of the American Lung Association of North Carolina. Dr. Maness was a nationally renowned asthma educator, speaking to physicians, pharmacists and the general public on the management of patients with asthma. He dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for children with asthma. He was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church and was an avid hunter and fisherman. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. from St. Paul United Methodist Church with Rev. Charles Morrison and Rev. Bob Bame officiating. Graveside services will be held Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. from Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Greensboro. He was the devoted husband of Mary Setzer Maness and loving father of Erin Elizabeth Maness and Megan Fleming Maness of Goldsboro, Riley Cathleen Maness and Jonathan Robbins Maness of the home. He is also survived by sisters, Delores Maness Denton and Linda Maness Mooth of Greensboro; brother, Riley Colon Maness, Jr. of Greensboro; five nieces and four nephews. The family will receive friends Tuesday at Seymour Funeral Home from 6:00-9:00 p.m. and other times at the residence. Following the graveside service, the family will receive friends at the home of Tom and Linda Mooth, 5306 Ashby Lane, Summerfield, NC. Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association of North Carolina for Camp Challenge, PO Box 27985, Raleigh, NC 27611. North Carolina School Yearbooks by County [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] North Carolina Obituary and Death Notice Archive is maintained by GenLookups with WebBBS 5.12.

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