Watauga-Caldwell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Pitts, Rev. Roy Alexander September 16, 1941
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Newspaper Obituary
Death Takes
     Brother Of
         Local Woman

Blowing Rock, Sept 18 –
Funeral Services for the Rev. Roy Alexander Pitts, 56, pastor of Free Will 
Baptist church for the past 12 years who died at his home here Tuesday, were 
held at 2 p.m. today at the church.  The Rev. Bob Shores of Blowing Rock and 
Rev. General Oxentine of Lenoir officiate and interment was in Lance cemetery.

			He was a brother of Mrs.
           		        Walter Winkler of Lenoir.

   The Rev. Pitts, born in Blowing Rock, a son of the late Roland and Mrs. 
Sarah Pitts, both of this city was one of the builders of the church of which 
he was the pastor, organizing the first congregation.  He had spent all of his 
life here.
   He was twice married, first to the late Mrs. Levetta Winkler Pitts of 
Lenoir.  He is survived by his second wife, the former Miss Florence Hodge of 
Blowing Rock; two daughter, Christine an d Naomi, and two sons, Dalton and 
Roy, Jr., all of the home; and the following sisters and brothers:  Mrs. 
Walter Winkler of Lenoir and Mrs. Oscar Clark of Stanleytown, Va.,. and 
Monroe, Everette, Gordon and Eugene Pitts, all of Blowing Ro


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