Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Mathias, Jr., Louis Powell 2003
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VIRGINIAN PILOT – 11-03-2003
LOUIS POWELL MATHIAS, JR.

Louis Powell Mathias, Jr., 70, of the 1300 block of NC 32N, died Saturday, Nov. 
1, 2003, in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. Mr. Mathias was born in 
Corapeake, Gates County, N.C., on March 29, 1933 to Louis P., Sr. and Erma Lee 
Polson Mathias. 

A graduate of Sunbury High School in the class of 1952, he joined the U.S. Air 
Force and served for four years. On Dec. 24, 1958 he married the former Louise 
Bryant and together they raised three children. For 46 years, he worked with 
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock and also during part of that time he 
owned and operated Mathias Florist. 

An active member of Eureka Baptist Church, he had served as a deacon, was a 
member of the Adult Men’s Sunday School Class where he had been the secretary 
and treasurer, had served on the building and grounds committee, the cemetery 
committee, the parsonage committee, and in the church choir. A former Boy Scout 
leader, he was a charter member of the Corapeake Ruritan Club, served as its 
chaplain and received its first “Ruritan of the Year” award. A respected 
ballplayer and fan of all sports, his talents could be seen in everything ye did 
from carpentry, fishing, hunting, to mechanic work and gardening. A devoted 
husband, Daddy and Granddaddy, he will best be remembered as a loving friend to 
all. Surviving are his wife, Louise Bryant Mathias; his daughter, Debbie M. Eure 
of Corapeake; his sons, Mark Mathias and wife Tracie of Dalton, GA., and David 
Mathias of Sunbury; his sisters, Margaret M. Dale of Corapeka and Eunice M. Carr 
and husband Ivan of Virginia Beach; five grandchildren. Jessica and Charlie Eure 
and Aaron, Nicholas and Courtney Mathias. Also surviving are his special 
friends, Chuck Perry, Coochie Turner, Vance Bright and Tom Ward. 

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Eureka Baptist Church by the Rev. 
Cameron Currin. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may join the 
family today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, and all 
other times at the residence. In lieu of flowers the family suggest that 
contributions be made to the Corapeake Ruritan Club, in care of Foster Parrish, 
P.O. Box, Corapeake, N.C. 27926 or to the Gates County Rescue Squad, Gatesville, 
NC 27938


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