He was a Veteran of World War II, longtime educator and community leader of Salisbury. He was the former principal of three elementary schools and was inducted into the J. C. Price High School Athletic Hall of Fame and received an Elizabeth Duncan Koontz Salisbury-Rowan Hu-man Relations Council's Humanitarian Award. The Fleming Heights Senior Apartments and the W. O. T. Fleming Head Start Center were named in his honor.
The funeral will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at Varick Auditorium on the Livingstone College Campus.
He is survived by his daughters, Gail Fleming and Phoebe Pryor; brothers, Louis Fleming of New Bern and Robert Lee Fleming Jr. of Salisbury; sisters, Mary McQuire, Naomi Gibson and Jacquelyn Herndon.
Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, at Noble & Kelsey Funeral Home, Salisbury.
Local announcement by Oscar's Mortuary, Inc.
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