DATE: Sunday, September 21, 1997            TAG: 9709210006

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 

DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY                    LENGTH:   31 lines

EDISON P. WARD SR.

Edison Powers Ward Sr., 80, of the 100 block of Powers Drive died Friday, Sept. 19, 1997, in the Albemarle Hospital.

Mr. Ward was a native of Columbia, N.C., a graduate of Columbia High School, a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War, a member and elder at Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church, a member and 32 degree Past Master of Eureka Lodge No. 317 AF&AM, a member of New Bern Scottish Rite Bodies, a member and Past Patron of the Elizabeth City Chapter No. 44 Order of the Easter Star, past chairman of the Pasquotank County A.B.C. Board and was a retired shipwright from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth.

Mr. Ward was the son of the late Henry Ellis and Mittie Armstrong Ward and the husband of Thelma McDaniel Ward of the residence. Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons and their wives, Edison Powers and Sandra Ward Jr. of Elizabeth City, Thomas Lee and Deborah Ward of Knightdale, N.C., and Lynn Randall and Ellen Ward of Nashville, N.C.; one sister, Mittie Ward Hamilton of Columbia, N.C.; two brothers, John Augustus Ward of Chesapeake and Winton Ray Ward of Norfolk; and six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

A funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church by the Rev. R. Whitfield Bass. Burial with Masonic Rites will follow in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Twiford's Memorial Chapel, Elizabeth City, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday and at the residence at other times. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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