Albin Robert "Al" Bernot

HIGH POINT -- Albin Robert "Al" Bernot, 75, died Monday, December 2, 2002. He had been in declining health for seven years.
Mr. Bernot was born October 20, 1927 in Newark, NJ, a son of Frank and Agnes Verbickas Bernot. He attended UNC at Chapel Hill where he played football and was an Army Air Corps veteran. He was associated with Highland Motor Incorporated for forty-five years. He was a member of the High Point Kiwanis Club and received the Hixson Fellow Award, a member of the Salvation Army board for twenty-five years and received their Merit Award. He was a supporter of the UNC Educational Foundation, and a charter member of the Thursday Night Gin Rummy Club, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. On August 26, 1949, he married Anna Gamble. She preceded him in death July 6, 1993.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Brandon Bernot of High Point and Mrs. Lynne Fogarty and husband William of Gulf Breeze, FL; one son, Robert Gamble Bernot of Watauga County; one sister, Mrs. Frances T. Grimm of Elkhart, Indiana and her two children, Joseph Grimm and Nancy VonDoehren and their extended families, including Mrs. Charles Grimm of Edison, New Jersey, Betsy Gamble Hansen, Harald R. Hansen, Ed Hansen, all of Atlanta, Georgia, and Brandon Hansen Frein of Chicago, Illinois.
Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church by Dr. Kenneth Broman-Fulks. Inurnment will be in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be at Sechrest Funeral Home on E. Lexington Avenue, Thursday night from 7 until 8:30 p.m.
Memorials may be directed to the Salvation Army, 301 W. Green Drive, High Point, NC 27260, or to Indigent Care Fund at Maryfield Nursing Home, 1315 Greensboro Road, High Point, NC 27260.
Sechrest Funeral Service is serving the Bernot Family.