Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Deatherage, Robert Earl January 29, 2005
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The Berrien Press - February 2005
 Robert Earl Deatherage, Sr., 78, died January 29, 2005 at Pitt County Memorial 
Hospital.

 Born August 23, 1926 in Fuqua-Varina, NC to the late Samuel Phelps and Ida Mae 
Talley Deatherage, he served in the U. S. Army in the Pacific during WWII and 
was honorably discharged at age 20 with the rank of Master Sergeant. He worked 
with the tobacco markets in North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia and Kentucky. He 
owned and operated tobacco warehouses on the Bright Belt market in Georgia and 
the Burley market in Kentucky. He received the designation of Kentucky Colonel 
from the Governor of Kentucky. He was of the Baptist faith. He was married to 
the late Susan Sanderson Deatherage.

 Survivors include son, William Stanhope Deatherage of Washington, NC; 
daughter, Marie Wilson of Washington, NC; nine grandchildren, one great-
grandchild.

 Funeral services were held Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 
Washington.

 Interment was in Oakdale Cemetery.

 Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers were L.E. Watson, Jimmy Parker, Randy 
Tingle, D.T. Dale, Roy Talley, Bob Tyndall, Jim Douglas, Billy Dawson, Barry 
Chesson, H.A. Swindell, Lee Foreman.

 Paul Funeral Home of Washington, NC was in charge of arrangements.

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