Locally, a Memorial Service for Trayvon will be held at 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at Morning Star Church of Christ, 225 S. Glendale Avenue in Rocky Mount, NC NAACP President, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II will be the Guest Speaker

H. D. Pope Funeral Home

“Funeral Home of Personal Service, Peace of Mind and Pleasant Memories”

 

 

Trayvon B. Martin

Sanford, FL

 

Trayvon Benjamin Martin, 17, born on February 5, 1995, was the son of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.  He was visiting with his father and his father’s fiancé at her townhome in The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida, when, while walking from a convenience store, the unarmed youth was fatally shot and murdered on February 26, 2012.  Trayvon, who was apparently doing nothing more menacing the evening of Feb. 26th than walking home from a convenience store, was shot in the chest during an altercation with a neighborhood watch captain who thought the teen in a hoodie looked "suspicious."

 

Locally, a Memorial Service for Trayvon will be held at 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at Morning Star Church of Christ, 225 S. Glendale Avenue in Rocky Mount, NC.  NAACP President, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber will be the Guest Speaker. 

 

All members of the community, town, city, state, and surrounding states, are invited to attend this Memorial Service.  If you, your family, or your heart has been touched by the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, please join us as we move to bring ALL communities together.  We have a duty to each other to raise the awareness and focus of such violence and the effect it has on us all.  Furthermore, it is our duty to unify and erase the widespread acceptance of crimes as this for all people.

 

"His name is ringing all over the country, all over the nation, all over the world." Fulton agreed, "It showed us that even President Obama understands we need justice, that he understands our situation." Adds Martin: "The nation is saying… what if, what if this was my son, what would I do?" 

 

Please join us.

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H.D. Pope – Rocky Mount NC

Turnage memorial to be held Wednesday – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

The community is invited to share their memories of former Mayor Fred Turnage with his wife of 51 years, Norma, their two children and five grandchildren from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeside Baptist Church. (Read more)

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Memorial Service for Dorothy Graye Woodard Wooten (Remember The G.W. Carver Alma Mater Song?)

My condolence goes out to Woodard and Wooten families on the loss of your love one Dorothy Graye Woodard Wooten.

Script.: Read Eccles. 3 and know, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

Song: I Don’t Feel Noways Tired – Rev. James Cleveland

The Obituary

From the family of the late Dorothy Graye Horne Dancy, Curmilus Dancy Sr. (Mill), Curmilus Butch Dancy II & Family.

Pinetops NC – In Memory of Private First Class Arthur Lee Dancy

Let us not forget Private First Class Arthur Lee Dancy, casualty of the Vietnam War. As a member of the Army, PFC Dancy served our country until January 23rd, 1967 in Binh Duong, South Vietnam. He was 19 years old and was not married. Arthur died from suffocation. His body was recovered. Arthur was born on April 9th, 1947 in Pinetops, North Carolina.

PFC Dancy is on panel 14E, line 071 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. He served our country for less than a year.

Note: PFC Dancy is my uncle my dad Curmilus Dancy Sr.’s brother. He is the son of now deceased parents Samuel Dancy Sr. and William Ann Dickens Dancy.

His siblings are:

Wilbur Wraye Dancy McNeil – Pinetops NC
Gwendolyn Dancy Burns – Robersonville NC
Juanita Dancy Oates – Charlotte NC
Oleathia Dancy Hayes – Warrenton NC
Christine Dancy Sharpe – Richmond, Va 
Annie Mae Dancy Pitt – Deceased

Curmilus Dancy Sr. – Pinetops NC
Eugene Dancy – Pinetops NC
Winfred Dancy – Castalia NC
Bernard Dancy – Tarboro NC 
Curtis Dancy – Tarboro NC
LeRoy Dancy – Lithonia Ga
William Henry Dancy – Stafford Va
Leonard Dancy – Norwalk Conn
Samuel Dancy Jr. – Deceased

PFC Dancy RIP on the family farm that is located in Pinetops, NC where his mother, father, sister, brother and other relatives are resting in peace.

I do not remember Uncle Arthur however I do remember the day that the service people came to tell my grandmother about his death.

Note: Thank you Aunt Chris for sharing the link to the information about Uncle Arthur. I decided to add more information.

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