Columbus-Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Waddell Jr., John Patrick October 23, 1966 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steven Hinson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007748 August 8, 2013, 6:43 am The Robesonian, October 24, 1966 The Robesonian, Lumberton, NC October 24, 1966 JOHN PATRICK WADDELL Fair Bluff – John Patrick Waddell, 74, died Sunday at 11 p.m. in Southeastern General Hospital after a brief illness. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Meares Funeral Chapel and burial will be in the Powell Cemetery. His pastor, the Rev. J.H. Parris, will be assisted by two former pastors, the Rev. Fred Davis of Elizabethtown and the Rev. Neill Thompson of Raleigh. Mr. Waddell was the oldest member of the local Masonic lodge, a former mayor of Fair Bluff and a retired merchant and farmer. A member of Fair Bluff Methodist Church, he served as secretary-treasurer of its Sunday school for more than 50 years, resigning only recently. His parents were the late John Patrick and Mary Hinson Waddell of Fair Bluff. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Louise Floyd Waddell; a son, Earl Waddell of Fair Bluff; two daughters, Mrs. Gene Stevens of Fair Bluff and Southern Pines and Miss Nellie Waddell of Fair Bluff; one brother, Dr. M.A. Waddell, and one sister, Mrs. Bertie Waddell Floyd, both of Fair Bluff. Pallbearers will be Bobby, Wilton and James Waddell, Aubrey Williams, John Carl Townsend and Poe Barnes. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/columbus/obits/w/waddellj3355gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb