J. R. Vandiford Obituary ~ April 8, 1941

Contributed by Joan S Dunn

J. R. Vandiford Dies of Heart Ailment

Daily Reflector, Tues., April 8, 1941

J. R. VANDIFORD, 59, died at 3 o’clock Monday morning at Pitt General hospital 
from a heart ailment after only two days illness. Funeral services were 
conducted from the home in Craven county this afternoon at two o’clock by Rev. 
J. W. NORRIS, Free Will Holiness minister of Pink Hill, and burial followed in 
the Manning family cemetery in Littlefield. Mr. VANDIFORD was born, reared and 
spent his entire life in Pitt county. He was a member of the Black Jack Free 
Will Holiness church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Leona BUCK VANDIFORD; two 
sons, Benjamin VANDIFORD and Linwood Earl VANDIFORD, both of the home, one 
daughter, Ordatha Rose VANDIFORD, also of the home; two brothers, Matthew and 
David VANDIFORD of New Bern, and one sister, Mrs. Bryce BRATCHER of near 
New Bern.





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