Kinston Free Press Monday, May 30, 1949 MISS ELLA BLAND DIES; RITES AT 4 MONDAY AFTERNOON: Miss Ella Bland, 93, retired matron of Parrott Memorial Hospital, died at the hospital at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, after an extended period of failing health. The funeral will be from Edwards' Funeral Home here at 4 p.m. Monday, with interment in Maplewood Cemetery. Rev. Rufus B. Hurt of Gordon Street Church of Christ will officiate. Miss Bland was a daughter of the late Theophilus and Mary Smith Bland of Pitt County, but she spent most of her life in Kinston. She was matron at Parrott Memorial Hospital for 25 years before her retirement some 17 years ago. She had been in ill health for several years. Her work as matron dated back through the influenza epidemic of the early 1920's. Surviving are a brother R. E. Bland an a sister, Mrs. Ida Albritton, both of Kinston, and a large number of nieces and nephews.
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