Mount Olive, North Carolina
William Burkette RaperMount OliveDr. W. Burkette Raper, 83, of Mount Olive, died peacefully on Monday, August 1, 2011, following a courageous battle with cancer. Burkette, the son of the late William Cecil and Beulah Davis Raper, was born September 10, 1927, in the Black Creek Community of Wilson...
Read MoreI am really going to miss seeing Burkette at the Alumni Gathering at the Children's Home. He was a connection to my stay at the Orphanage...he will be grately missed...my sympathy to his family.
Josie (Hatem) Patterson
August 15, 2011 | Pittsburgh, PA
Rev. Raper was a very special person to my husband and me. He was pastor of my home church, Hull Road Free Will Baptist, when he married us on January 30, 1954.
Sylvia & Ancel Mewborn
August 04, 2011 | Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. Raper was a good friend and a wonderful human being. He will truly be missed, and Bob and I extend our deepest sympathy to all of his family during this time of bereavement. Bev Perdue
August 03, 2011
Burkette Raper was a "fixture" in my family from the time he was a little boy, spending week-ends and summer holidays (as many children from the FWB Children's Home did) in my grandfather's home. He told me wonderful stories about my mother, his contemporary,and the pranks and games that they played as children.
But my experience with him was as an educator ... and I would only hope that the marks that I leave on the educational instituions that I have served are some fraction...
Janie Fouke
August 03, 2011 | Singapore
