Amanda Ruth Prevatte

Miss Amanda Ruth Prevatte, 93, of Lumberton passed away at Southeastern Regional Medical Center, on January 8, 2004. Miss Prevatte was born January 13, 1910, in Robeson County to the late James Rowland and Lottie Kinlaw Prevatte.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Betty Rose Prevatte Wall of Raleigh, NC. An ardent and faithful life member of First Baptist Church, 7th and Walnut Streets, she served in many leadership capacities—among them President of Woman’s Missionary Union, following retirement from an elementary teaching career of forty-two years with third graders at Smiths, Joe P. Moore, and Tanglewood Schools of Robeson County.

Having graduated from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and from Columbia University, in New York, NY, her career spanned membership in the Children of the Confederacy and Chapter 942 of Robeson United Daughters of the Confederacy—serving as Chapter Historian and Librarian for ten years. She was a member of Lambda Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, serving as its Treasurer for ten years. Teachers and students from across the state benefited from articles, publications of units of work published in the North Carolina Education Association Magazine and the North Carolina Wildlife Association.

Memorial services will be held on Sunday, January 11, 2004 in Biggs Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m. with Dr. Kevin Head, Dr. Russell Cherry and the Rev. Joe Bounds officiating.

The family will greet friends in the chapel at l p.m. and again at Meadowbrook Cemetery following the service.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Hazel P. Linkhaw of Lumberton; a niece, Lynda Wall Curtin and husband, Robert, of Durham, NC; a nephew, James Richard Wall and wife, Joy, of Cary, NC; three great nephews, Geoff Daniel of Durham, Michael and Matthew Wall of Cary, and a great niece, Lindsay Curtin of Durham; a longtime family friend, Marion Hamilton of Fairmont and a caring neighbor, Joanne Bullard, Lumberton, NC.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to First Baptist Church Woman’s Missionary Union, P. O. Box 938, Lumberton, NC 28359.