Kinston Free Press Friday, March 12, 1971 LEANDER D. BLAND. Leander Duke Bland, 78, of 112 East Grainger Avenue died in a local hospital about 10 p.m. Thursday. He was a retired accountant and tobacconist, son of the late Richard E. and Louise Faulkner Bland of Lenoir County, a member of St. John's Masonic Lodge Number 4-AF and AM and a member of York Rites Bodies, Sudan Temple of the Shrine in New Bern, Queen Street United Methodist Church. He attended Richmond Business College in Richmond, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. from the chapel of Garner's Funeral Home. Rev. Harold Leatherman, Methodist, will officiate. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery with Masonic rites. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Mildred Cox Bland of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Willard Rouse of Seven Springs Route 1 and Mrs. G. Robert House of Chesapeake, Virginia, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers, Harry and Beck Bland, both of Kinston, one sister, Mrs. Norwood Bizzell of Kinston. Masons will serve as active pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Henry and Francis Edwards, John Taylor, Joe Paradis Jr., Joe Pharo, Jack Preston, E. W. Owens, Jimmy Daughety, Elbert Rouse, Larry Price, Elmer Daughety and Jimmy Taylor.
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