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James Ray Bryant
November 10, 1947 – March 20, 2013
James Ray Bryant, 65, of Wilson passed away Wednesday.
James is survived by his son, Daniel Nelson; his granddaughter, Diedra Nelson, his grandsons, Daniel Ray Nelson, Jr. and Damien Nelson and great-grandson, Daniel Ray Nelson III all of Florida; his sister, Pat Rose and husband, Ricky of Stantonsburg; his niece, Gwyn Weber and husband, Paul of Rocky Mount; his nephews, Larry Rose and wife, Claudia of Wilson and James Rose of Bailey and his beloved dogs, Susie and Roscoe.
He was preceded in death by his parents, J.B. and Mildred Bryant.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to his many friends of the American Legion and the Moose Lodge. He was a wonderful person that was loved by many and will be missed with joyful memories.
In lieu of flowers; memorials may be directed to the Wilson County Humane Society, PO Box 7064, Wilson, NC 27895.
Kenneth Morgan Boyette
March 26, 1934 – May 4, 2013
Kenneth Morgan Boyette, 79, passed away Saturday. Ken was born
March 26, 1934 in Goldsboro. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, Jimmy William Boyette and Bessie Morgan Boyette. He has one sibling Betty Jean Howell of Goldsboro.
Ken is survived by his wife of 25 years, Margaret Leggett Boyette. Ken and Margaret are well known by their friends and church family as “The Doll-in’s”. They have four children; Kimberly Annette Moore (Jimmy) of Wilson, Karen Annette Candes (John) of Clayton, William “Joseph” Joe Parrish (Cindy) and Karen Parrish Long (Ben) both of Zebulon and five precious grandchildren; Evangelos and Alex Candes both of Clayton, Brooks Stancil and Cameron and Katelyn Long all of Zebulon.
Ken retired from the State with 30 years of service as a Driver’s License Examiner and Parole Officer. He was owner of B& L Office Furniture as well as Boyette Auction Company in Wilson. Ken was not only a loving devoted husband and father, but a wonderful Christian friend to all.
A celebration of Ken’s life will be conducted 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. A graveside service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday in Evergreen Memorial Park. The Rev. Gordon Sebastian and Rev. Dr. Keith Hudson will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Building Fund, Riverview Baptist Church, c/o Tim Etheridge, 6228 Clarks Neck Road, Washington, NC 27889 or to the SECU Hospice House of Smithfield, 426 Hospital Road, Smithfield, NC 27577.
W. James Hynes, Jr.
November 1, 1925 – March 14, 2013
Walter James Hynes, Jr., 87, of Topsham, Maine, passed away Thursday, March 14, 2013. Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Saturday at Joyner’s Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Maplewood Cemetery. The Rev. Gary Walling will officiate.
The family will receive friends 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. prior to service at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway.
Jim enlisted during WWII at the age of 17 and was assigned to the 8th Army Air Corps. Jim was stationed in Greensboro, NC, when a Greensboro College sophomore, Evelyn Wood, passed him on the street and he asked her out on a date. They were engaged on their second date and eloped in 1946. During their 67 years of marriage, Jim would often say, “The smartest thing I ever did was marry your mother.” His family heartily agreed.
After graduating from East Carolina University, Jim took a job in southern California in the defense industry. For the next 40 years Jim was at the forefront of missile system and integrated combat system design; his ground-breaking projects are displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Highlights of Jim’s career include: the Missile Defense System; guidance systems for the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and the Arleigh Burke Class destroyer. Jim worked for General Electric, Bath Iron Works, and Litton Industries where he was appointed Vice President in charge of Shipbuilding for his role in the DDG51. He was president of several subsidiary companies but insisted that his real title was “engineer.” Jim completed his professional tenure with Raytheon, reluctantly retiring at the mandatory age of 70.
Jim’s recreation was as vigorous as his work. He was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club 4, 000 Footer Club. He led the family in sailing, canoeing, and camping. In 1972, Jim and Lyn bought a 350-acre dairy farm in Windsor, Maine. His wife and son ran the dairy farm and added sheep, pigs and horses. This provided Jim with non-stop projects on weekends.
A member of the Concord (NH) Aero-Guidance Society, Jim was an avid radio control airplane builder, flyer, crasher and restorer. There was always a chainsaw in his car to cut down the offending tree that captured his planes.
Jim Hynes succumbed to Parkinson’s disease on March 14, 2013, with his family by his side. He is survived by his better half, Lyn; his three children, Beverly, Nancy and her husband, Daniel and James III and his wife, Lisa; and his four grandchildren, Matthew, Katharine, Evelyn, and James.
He was preceded in death by his grandson, David and his parents, Walter James Hynes and Paula Alvine Yunkes.
Dolores Loretta Carson
November 2, 1941 – April 7, 2013
Dolores “Laurie” Carson, 71, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday afternoon at her home in Wilson. Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Monday, April 15, 2013 at St. Therese Catholic Church. Visitation will be held in vestibule of the church starting at 10:30 a.m. Father Paul Brant will officiate.
Laurie was a special woman who dedicated her life to helping others, as she made a long successful career in nursing. She was a loving wife to her husband, Jack, of 40 years. She also unconditionally loved her son, Vince who is 31. As a mother, she selflessly made every effort to provide the best possible life for her son.
Laurie also served her country honorably as a flight nurse in the Vietnam War with the US Air Force.
She will be truly missed and will never be forgotten. Beautiful memories of time shared with her will always be remembered and cherished.
Laurie is survived by her husband, Jack Caron; her son, Vince Carson; her oldest brother, Vince Madden and wife, Mary; and her youngest sister, Frances Gallagher and husband, John.
Dr. Elton Dewitt “E.D.” Winstead
October 7, 1913 – March 25, 2013
Dr. Elton Dewitt “E.D.” Winstead, 99, formerly of Wilson died March 25, 2013. Funeral services will be held Saturday April 6, 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Wilson conducted by Rev. Bob Bergland and Rev. Harold Morcombe. Burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Friday April 5, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway.
Dr. Winstead was born
in 1913 in Wilson, grew up in Wilson, and lived a life of honor and integrity serving his country, community, and family.
A member of “The Greatest Generation, ” his loyalty and love for his country was evident throughout his entire life. He enlisted in the Army on February 6, 1934 and served almost twenty-four years before retiring from that chapter of his life December 31, 1957 as a Lt. Colonel. He was a combat veteran of World War II fighting in the Battle of Corregidor in the Philippines at the beginning of the war, however after the fall of Corregidor he spent the remaining three years of the war as Prisoner of War in the Philippines held by the Japanese. (His wife and baby son had been evacuated back to Wilson from the Philippines just before the war started, and for the first year of his captivity, his wife did not know if he was alive or dead.) As one of the fortunate survivors of those ordeals, he returned to Wilson after the war and was presented the Key to City of Wilson in a special community ceremony in front of the courthouse. (On March 31, 1995 an “E.D. Winstead Day” commemorating that ceremony with a second key to the city was held as part of Wilson’s special fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II.) He was post commander of Fort Davis in the Panama Canal Zone guarding part of the Panama Canal during the Korean War. Some of his Army assignments are indicated by the birthplaces of his four children, Ed “Dee” at Ft. Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines, Ray at Ft. Monroe in Virginia, Sue at The Presidio of San Francisco (the historic Army post containing Ft. Scott) in California, and Gene at Ft. Davis in Panama.
After graduating from Charles L. Coon High School in Wilson in 1930 he attended Atlantic Christian College in Wilson for one year. He told his parents there was no need for him to continue as a student at ACC, since he was not going to be either a teacher or a preacher. (Ironically, later in life he became a full-time teacher and a substitute preacher.) After retiring from the Army and moving back to Wilson, he continued where he left off and graduated from ACC thirty years later in 1960. After earning a master’s degree in education from Duke University he became a faculty member at ACC in 1962. In 1966, he completed his doctoral degree from Duke University, became the first chairman of the new ACC Department of Mathematics, and remained a professor in that position until his retirement in 1977.
He married Josephine “Jo” Minshew, a Wilson nurse from Black Creek (Wilson County) in 1938, and they shared their journeys and lives together until her death in 2000. Their last move together was from Wilson to a retirement community in Durham, NC in 1996. Their relationship was one of loving commitment and caring.
He participated in community activities in Wilson, e.g. he was the first chairman of The Wilson County Facilities and Pollution Control Financing Authority, was a member of First United Methodist Church in Wilson, and was a member of the American Legion.
In 2010 he moved to a retirement community in Brevard, NC where his son Ed and his wife Pam live.
After he retired from ACC he enjoyed bowling regularly with friends, and he continued to bowl regularly with new friends in Durham until moving to Brevard. In Durham he occasionally conducted church services, including preparing and giving the sermons, when the regular pastor for the retirement community was absent. In Brevard he attended St. Timothy United Methodist Church and participated in church activities there.
Dr. Winstead is survived by his children and their families, Ed “Dee” Winstead and his wife Pam (Brevard, NC) and Pam’s four sons, Gary, Alan, Brian, and Joseph, and five grandchildren; Ray Winstead and his wife Dawn and their two children, Jacob and Daniel (Indiana, PA); Sue W. Gordon and her husband Tony (Henderson, NV) and their two children Beth (Las Vegas, NV) and Aimee (Monroeville, PA); and Gene Winstead and his wife Kathleen and their daughter Haley (Montclair, NJ).
Dr. Winstead was preceded in death by his parents, Frank J. and Nettie S. Winstead, his wife, Josephine “Jo” M. Winstead, his brother Frank Ollin Winstead, and two sisters Geraldine Winstead and Clara W. Williams.
In lieu of flowers, please send a donation in Dr. Winstead’s honor to the Barton College School of Nursing at PO Box 5000, Wilson, NC 27893. Dr. Winstead’s wife Jo was a Registered Nurse alumna of the Wilson-Herring Hospital School of Nursing, now the Barton College School of Nursing.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Joyner’s Funeral Home.
Susan Walker Batchelder
April 19, 1950 – April 20, 2013
Susan Walker Batchelder, 63, of Wilson passed away Saturday. The family will receive friends 4 – 7 p.m. Wednesday at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway.
Susan graduated from the nursing program of Wilson Technical Community College, and was a dedicated Registered Nurse. She was a compassionate Hospice Nurse for many years and also an award winning Director of Nursing for the Brian Center of Wilson. She was a loving mother that will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Susan is survived by her daughters, Julia S. Langley and T.J. Winstead of Wilson and Brandi L. Bass and husband, Thomas of Macclesfield; her son, Michael Langley of Wilson; her grandson, Wesley Bass of Elm City; her grandpuppies, Lucky, Tink and Trixie and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Herbert and Eugenia Walker and her sisters, Beth and Marilyn.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society, c/o Mrs. C. A. Thompson, 1207 Peachtree Road, Wilson, NC 27896.
