Spence Rites Set For 2 on Tuesday Albert Leon Spence, 43, a prominent farmer of the Pink Hill section, died in the Veteran’s Hopsital at Richmond, Va., about 9:15 a.m. Sunday after an illness of some months. Rev. Jimmy Miller of the Westminster Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. D. C. Boone of the Pink Hill Methodist Church, will conduct the final services from Garner’s Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will follow in Westview Cemetery. A veteran of World War II, the deceased served about three years in the European theater of war. He is survived by his wife, Mildred Meadows Spence; his mother, Mrs. J. T. Spence, Sr.; three brothers, Herman Spence of Kinston, J. T. Spence of Pink Hill and Joe Spence of Chapel Hill; three sisters, Miss Erma Spence of Pink Hill, Mrs. John C. Smith of Pink Hill and Mrs. N. E, Scott of Richmond, Va., and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Keith Williams, Lee Wilcox, Adolph Cox, Leslie Quinn, Jimmy Turner and Gurney Worley.
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