Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameGerald Blaine James 
Birth24 Nov 1922, Oakboro, Stanly County, NC
Death19 Oct 1993, Eden, Rockingham County, NC
BurialCremated
FatherMartin Lafayette James (1884-1950)
MotherCarrie Ellen Brooks (1882-1972)
Spouses
Unmarried
ChildrenCarol
John M.
Glenn W.
Notes for Gerald Blaine James
Dr. Gerald James
EDEN -- Dr. Gerald B. James, 70, of 643 Highland Drive, died Tuesday at his home. Memorial service will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist church of Eden, of which he was a member.
Born in Stanly County, he was the founding president of Rockingham Community College and an army veteran of World War II. Among his many civic activities, he was past chairman of the Morehead Memorial Hospital Board, past chairman of the Cherokee Council of the Boy Scouts of America's board of directors and a member of the board of directors of the Eden United Way and the Eden Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife, DeLauris "Dee" B. James; daughter, Carol Thompson of Atlanta; sons John M. James of Atlanta, Glenn W. James of Waco, Texas; one grandchild.
Visitation will follow the memorial service in the church fellowship hall.
Memorial contributions may be made in the Gerald and Dee James Scholarship Fund, Rockingham Community College, P.O. Box 28, Wentworth, NC 27375 or the Hospice of Rockingham County, P.O. Box 281, Wentworth, N.C. 27375.
Fair Funeral home is in charge of arrangements.
Greensboro Daily News, 20 October 1993
EDEN -- Dr. Gerald B. James, 70, of 643 Highland Drive, died Tuesday at his home. Memorial service will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist church of Eden, of which he was a member.
Born in Stanly County, he was the founding president of Rockingham Community College and an army veteran of World War II. Among his many civic activities, he was past chairman of the Morehead Memorial Hospital Board, past chairman of the Cherokee Council of the Boy Scouts of America's board of directors and a member of the board of directors of the Eden United Way and the Eden Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife, DeLauris "Dee" B. James; daughter, Carol Thompson of Atlanta; sons John M. James of Atlanta, Glenn W. James of Waco, Texas; one grandchild.
Visitation will follow the memorial service in the church fellowship hall.
Memorial contributions may be made in the Gerald and Dee James Scholarship Fund, Rockingham Community College, P.O. Box 28, Wentworth, NC 27375 or the Hospice of Rockingham County, P.O. Box 281, Wentworth, N.C. 27375.
Fair Funeral home is in charge of arrangements.
Greensboro Daily News, 20 October 1993