Slade McClain Campbell, 96, died on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at Cedar Sinai Hospital. Final rites will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at Rehobeth AME Zion Church, 475 Rehobeth Church Rd., Clarkton with Rev. Dr. Arnold B. Coley Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Mitchellfield Cemetery in Clarkton. Viewing will be held Thursday, Feb. 10 from 1-7 p.m. at Union Funeral Home Chapel of Whiteville, and on Friday, Feb. 11 one hour prior to the services and following the servi

Mrs. Etta Beatrice Moore Spaulding, 79, of 211 Rico Road, Clarkton, NC, died Tuesday, January 18, at The Angel House in Whiteville. She was the wife of the late George Franklin “Tagen” Spaulding. The funeral will be 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 22, at Zion Tabernacle Church, 2565 Jenkins Road, Whiteville, by Reverend Gregory Spaulding. Burial will be in the Mitchell Field Cemetery. Viewing will be at Peoples Funeral Home of Whiteville Friday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at which

Slade McClain Campbell, 96, died on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at Cedar Sinai Hospital. Final rites will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at Rehobeth AME Zion Church, 475 Rehobeth Church Rd., Clarkton with Rev. Dr. Arnold B. Coley Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Mitchellfield Cemetery in Clarkton. Viewing will be held Thursday, Feb. 10 from 1-7 p.m. at Union Funeral Home Chapel of Whiteville, and on Friday, Feb. 11 one hour prior to the services and following the servi

W. Terry Smith TARBORO — Tarboro, Edgecombe County and North Carolina honored former black Congressman George Henry White again Saturday by unveiling a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker in his name at the corner of Main and Granville streets downtown. It is about a block away from where White lived when he was elected to two terms in the U.S. Congress in 1896 and 1898, making him at the time the only black member in Congress. The post office in Tarboro is named after W