Obituary of Frederick Sparkman -- 1959

Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall

Pender Chronicle, Burgaw, NC, June 17, 1959

Funeral Services for F. Sparkman at Rocky Point

     Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Rocky Point Presbyterian 
Church for Frederick Sparkman, of Rocky Point, 58, who died at his home Friday 
after a brief illness.  Burial was in Burgaw Cemetery.

     He was the son of the late Ella Nixon and Charles N. Sparkman.

     He is survived by his wife, Bennie Sidbury Sparkman; three children, Frederick 
J. and Tilden of Rocky Point, and Mrs. Gerald L. Beaverson of Jacksonville; four 
sisters, Mrs. E. T. Pullen of Burgaw, Mrs. W. W. Pearsall of Fayetteville, Mrs. 
C. N. Mathis, Sr. and Mrs. A. T. Johnson of Wilmington; and one brother, John 
Thomas Sparkman of Savannah, Ga.; and two grandchildren.

     Pallbearers were R. L. Wright, Elgin Langston, R. L. Batts, John R. Armstrong, 
John W. James, and Everett Durham.

     Honorary pallbearers were Arnold Rhodes, James Hayes, John Best, Dr. Ivey 
Taylor, Sparkman Sidbury, Dr. John Dees, George Lucas, R. Von Biberstein, Dr. 
N. C. Wolfe, Norman Batts, and the Elders and Deacons of the Rocky Point 
Presbyterian Church.





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