Robeson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Silver, Dr. Janie Britt 2010
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Dr. Janie Britt Silver

Dr. Janie Malloy Britt Silver, 94, of 102 Elmhurst Drive, Lumberton,
passed away on Aug. 12, 2010, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

She will be interred in the Britt family plot following a graveside
service in Meadowbrook Cemetery in Lumberton Saturday at 11 a.m. with
Dr. David Elks and the Rev. Tim Little conducting.

Her husband was Samuel A. Silver, who predeceased her in 2000. She was
the daughter of the late Evander Malloy Britt and Dorothy Geneva
Bowman Britt of Lumberton.

Janie was an admirer of the legal profession because her beloved
father had been the founder of the Britt & Britt law firm of Lumberton
and served as its first judge of the Recorder Court in 1913. However,
she followed her first love, education and teaching. After graduation
from Lumberton High School, she attended Mars Hill College, the
University of North Carolina, University of Georgia, and the
University of Mississippi and received her B.A., masters, and
doctorate degrees. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate
degree from the University of Mississippi, in 1956.

Dr. Silver applied her training as a teacher in North Carolina public
schools, the District of Columbia, and she and her husband spent 25
years as college professors in Arizona, Tennessee, Texas, and North
Carolina. She was the first woman to hold the rank of full professor
at Pembroke State University, where she headed the Education
Department. Following her retirement she has remained professor
emeritus of Pembroke State University. She will be long remembered by
hundreds of former students whose lives she touched.

In 1983, Dr. Silver was the first woman appointed to the Robeson
Community College board of trustees. Her service there brought her an
appointment by Gov. Hunt to serve on the N.C. Study Commission for the
future of the community college. Active in her political party she
served as a member of the State Executive Committee for the N.C.
Democratic Party. She was a lifelong member of First Baptist Church in
Lumberton.

She is survived by a sister, Evelyn Britt Ekern of Fargo, N.D., and
family Judge Samuel E. Britt and family of Lumberton, and the family
of deceased sister, Dorothy Britt Landis, and the family of deceased
brother, Evander M. Britt Jr. of Lumberton.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Biggs Funeral
Home in Lumberton.

Memorials may be made to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke,
Robeson Community College, or First Baptist Church.


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