Obituary of Sarah Bland Redditt ~ 1948

Contributed by Billy Bland





Kinston Free Press Tuesday, May 11, 1948
MRS. REDDITT DIES; RITES 4 WEDNESDAY:  Mrs. Sarah Bland Redditt, 81, widow of 
A. T. Redditt, died at her home at 201 West Peyton Avenue at 8 p.m. Tuesday.  
The funeral will be held from the residence at 4 p.m. Wednesday, with 
interment in Maplewood Cemetery.  Her pastor, Rev. Howard G. Dawkins of the 
First Baptist Church; Rev. Thomas H. Hamilton of the First Presbyterian 
Church, and Rev. Edwin F. Moseley, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church will 
officiate.

Mrs. Redditt was a daughter of the late C. C. and Elizabeth Boyd Bland.  Her 
husband died about 37 years ago.  She was long a faithful member of the First 
Baptist Church, which she attended regularly until a few weeks ago.  Surviving 
are two sisters, Miss Rose Bland of Kinston, Mrs. T. R. Lee of Kinston and 
several nieces ad nephews.  Active pallbearers will be Roy Poole, Jesse A. 
Jones, A. L. Hobgood, Jack Rouse, A Street Lee, Dr. H. Fleming Fuller, Quincy 
Hart and George Knott, Jr.



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