Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Nurney, Robert Lewis 1957 ************************************************ 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: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net June 12, 2014, 8:16 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 02-07-1957, SECT. I, P. 7 ROBERT LEWIS NURNEY Robert Lewis Nurney, 68, retired farmer of the Capron community, died early Tuesday morning, February 5, in Raiford Memorial Hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident more than a week ago on Highway 58 near Courtland. Mr. Nurney was injured when the car in which he was riding with his brother, Wallace C. Nurney of Capron, struck the rear of a truck. His brother is reported improving. Mr. Nurney was a native of Hertford County, N.C.; and for the past 50 years had made his home in Southampton County. He was the son of the late Willie and Mrs. Sallie Parker Nurney of Hertford County, and was a member of the Newsoms Methodist Church. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Mai Vinson of Murfreesboro, N.C.; four brothers, William Waverly Nurney, Ernest C. Nurney, all of Courtland, and Wallace C. Nurney of Capron, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Rev. O.L. Gochenour, pastor of the Newsoms Methodist Church. Burial was in Meherrin Church Cemetery, Murfreesboro, N.C. Active pallbearers were Clyde Vinson, Ashby Murney, Alton Ballard, Joe Majette, Leslie Whitehead and Gillette Bryant. Obit is missing a brother - Leasure Charles Nurney File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/obits/n/nurney1690nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb