December 28, 1953. The following obituary appeared in the Kinston Daily Free Press, Kinston, NC. "BOB BLAND RITES ARE AT 3 MONDAY: Robert F. (Bob) Bland, 59, died at his home at 307 Glenwood Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services were to be held from the home at 3 p.m. Monday with Rev. Jack Aiken of Jacksonville, supply pastor of the Kinston Universalist Church, officiating. Interment was to follow in Westview Cemetery. Mr. Bland was the son of Louise Faulkner Bland and the late Richard E. Bland. Surviving with his wife, the former Mima Parker, and his mother, are four brothers, Leander, F. Becton, Harry and Ralph Bland, all of Kinston; and one sister, Mrs. Norwood Bizzell of Kinston and several nephews and nieces including Miss Mamie Ruth Dawson of the home. Pallbearers were to be J. R. Fordham, J. C. Kennedy, John Hall, Jimmy Mitchell, Paul Field Tillman, L. M. Nash."
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