Bertie  COUNTY  NC  Obits Dr. Carroll Credle

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Dr. Carroll Credle, 49, Dies of Heart Attack Wed.
April 3, 1957

Ahoskie -- Dr. Carroll spencer Credle, 49, died at
12:30a.m. Wednesday at his home on Memorial Drive of
a heart attack.

Dr. Credle was born August 28, 1907 at Swan Quarter,
son of the late Milton Selby and Lina Watson Credle.
He was a graduate of the University of North
Carolina and the Medical College of Virginia and
interned at St. Vincent's and De Paul Hospital in
Norfolk.  He began his practice in 1934 in
Harrellsville, moved to Colerain in 1935 and
practiced there until 1950 when he moved to Ahoskie.

He has been on the staff of Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
since 1948 and maintained an office on Church Street
in Ahoskie after moving from Colerain.

Dr. Credle did post graduate work at Polyclinic
Hospital in New York and Harvard Medical School. Two
weeks ago he set up an office in his home to do a
limited practice. He had been in ill health for two
years.

Active in civic affairs he was a member of the
Ahoskie Kiwanis Club, Dogwood Club, Beechwood
Country Club, Mason, Shriner, member of the Colerain
School Board of Trustees for eight years; on the
town council of Colerain six years, Sunday School
teacher at Colerain Methodist Church and at the time
of his death was a member of the Ahoskie Methodist
Church.

Funeral services are to be held Thursday (today)
from the Ahoskie Methodist Church at 3pm with the
Rev. E.G. Purcell, Jr. pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the Ahoskie Cemetery. The body
will remain at Garrett's Funeral Home until 3pm when
it will be taken to the church.

Surviving are his wife, Josephine Tekinder, two
sons, Carroll, Jr., a student at the University of
North Carolina and Joseph Bernard Credle, Georgetown
Preparatory; Washington DC; a brother, C.G. Credel,
Oxford; three sisters, Mrs. Harry P. Brown,
Washington, NC; Mrs. H.M. May, Winterville, and Mrs.
A.B. Perry, Norfolk.

April 3, 1957