THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 TAG: 9701140187
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
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Lloyd Carlton Bunch, 94, of the 900 block of Virginia Road, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1997, in the Skilled Nursing Facility of Chowan Hospital.
Mr. Bunch was born in Chowan County. The son of the late Johnny E. and Mrs. Sarah Rebecca Evans Bunch, he was a retired farmer and a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church. Mr. Bunch began serving as a Soil and Water Conservation district supervisor in June of 1945. He served on many local, state and national Soil and Water Conservation committees. He was the chairman of the Albemarle SWC district from 1948 to 1988. He served as chairman of the Chowan County SWC committee from 1945 until April of 1996 and continued as vice chairman until his death. He was president of the North Carolina Association of SWC in 1967. In 1992 he was one of the first three inductees into the N.C. Association of SWC Hall of Fame. He was the oldest active Soil and Water Conservation supervisor in the nation. In 1993 he was awarded the Order of the Longleaf Pine by Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., the highest award the governor can award to a citizen. A friends remembers Mr. Bunch this way: ``I see him as a great man of God, an unpaid, brave warrior dedicated to the preservation of our soil and water for you and me.''
He was preceded in death by his wife, Aileen Murray Bunch. He is survived by a daughter, Hurley B. Winborne of Edenton; two sons, Harold Lloyd Bunch Sr. and his wife, Gail, of Edenton, Fred C. Bunch and his wife, Madge, of Tyner; a sister, Mollie B. Hollowell of Edenton; a brother, Luther Bunch of Edenton; 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Rocky Hock Baptist Church by the Rev. Ron Cava. Burial will follow in Beaver Hill Cemetery with Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, in charge.
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