Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall<\/p>\n
Robert Driver Is Killed by Train At Rooks Station<\/p>\n
Robert Driver<\/strong>, 60, for many years respected and beloved janitor at the Atkinson school, was instantly killed Sunday afternoon about 2 o’clock when the car in which he was riding was struck by a train at Rooks station near Atkinson.\u00a0 He is survived by a son and a daughter, and one sister, with whom he made his home.<\/p>\n Funeral service was held Tuesday, November 9th, and burial was at Point\u00a0Caswell Cemetery.<\/p>\n \u00a0Source:\u00a0The Pender Chronicle, Burgaw, NC, November 11, 1943<\/em><\/p>\n Note: Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall Robert Driver Is Killed by Train At Rooks Station Robert Driver, 60, for many years respected and beloved janitor at the Atkinson school, was instantly killed Sunday afternoon about 2 o’clock when the car in which he was riding was struck by a train at Rooks station near Atkinson.\u00a0 He … Continue reading “DRIVER, Robert (1943)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12207],"tags":[12294,12296,12295],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualobituary","tag-driver","tag-malpass","tag-pridgen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRobert Stephen Driver was the son of Harrison Monroe Driver<\/strong> and Mary Christa Pridgen<\/strong>.\u00a0 He was born in Pender County on 9 Mar 1882.\u00a0 Robert married Tina (Tiney) Lecester Malpass<\/strong>.\u00a0 The two children were:\u00a0 William Hanson Driver<\/strong> and Dorothy Louise Driver.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"