Robert Duke Vandiford

ROBERT DUKE VANDIFORD, FARMER OF ROUTE 3, ROCKY MOUNT, DIED AT HIS HOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 8 O’CLOCK FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED ILLNESS, HE WAS 74.
BORN SEPT. 18, 1883, IN NASH COUNTY, MR. VANDIFORD WAS THE SON OF THE LATE STEPHEN GRAY VANDIFORD AND NANCY SMITH VANDIFORD. HE WAS FIRST MARRIED TO MARY CALVIN CLARK OF CHESTER, SC., WHO DIED IN 1921. HE THEN WAS MARRIED TO TUMPSEY PRIDGEN IN 1927 AND SHE SURVIVES.
IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE, MR. VANDIFORD IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, ROBERT R. VANDIFORD OF ROCKY MOUNT; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. ETHEL CRUSENBERRY OF THE HOME AND MISS DOROTHY VANDIFORD OF WINNSBORO, SC; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
MR. VANDIFORD WAS A FARMER ALL HIS LIFE, FARMING NEAR ROCKY MOUNT. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PINEY GROVE PRIMITIVE BAP[TIST CHURCH.
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 3 O’CLOCK FROM THE CHAPEL OF THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME. THE REV. J.B. FERRELL WILL OFFICIATE AND BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN PINEY GROVE CHURCH CEMETERY.
NEPHEWS WILL SERVE AS ACTIVE PALLBEARERS.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE FAMILY WILL BE AT THE HOME OF MRS. ETHEL CRUSENBERRY.