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"Judge" English
Buried Last Friday
Afternoon
Last rites for Daniel
Leon English, 89, were held last Friday
afternoon at Brevard Methodist Church, with
Rev. Courtney Ross, pastor, and Rev. B. W.
Thomason officiating.
Masonic graveside
services were conducted by members of the
Dunn's Rock Masonic lodge at the Gillespie
Evergreen cemetery.
"Judge", as he was
affectionately known, had been a prominent
attorney here in Brevard for over 60 years.
During his career, he served as judge of the
Transylvania county court.
He was a member of the
Transylvania Bar association and the Brevard
Methodist church.
Judge English died in
Mountain Sanitarium hospital at Fletcher last
Wednesday afternoon after a lingering
illness.
Mr. English was the
son of the late Rev. and Mrs. Alexander
Fletcher English, and he was born on Davidson
river near the English Chapel Methodist Church
in Pisgah National forest.
He was educated in the
public schools of Transylvania, and he took
college work at Parrotsville, Tennessee. He
received his law degree at the University of
North Carolina.
He first opened his
law office here in the Cooper building on March
13th, 1900.
During the earlier
years of his practice he was associated at
times with Judge H. C. Ewitt, C. B. Deaver, and
L. P. Hamlin.
Judge English joined
the Masonic Lodge in 1903, and he held all the
various offices in the order. During his
earlier life, he was a member of the Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen of the
World.
Mr. English was an
avid hunter, and between World War I and World
War II, he kept a pack of fox hounds. One of
his favorite past-times was listening to the
fox chase.
He is survived by a
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
English, Jr. of Brevard; tree grandchildren.
Charles Robert Ebglish, of the U. S. Navy:
Thomas Leon English, a student at Yale
University: and Raymond A. English, of the
home; and a number of nieces and
nephews.
Pallbearers for the
service were Allison Orr, Bill Bangs, Robert
Gash, Few Lyda, Vernon Fulbright, and Jerry
Jerome, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers
were members of the Transylvania Bar
association, and Fred Johnson, Oliver Orr,
Vernon Neal, Roland Owen, Marvin McCall, Dr. G.
B. Lynch, Osborne Bradley, J. I. Ayers, Bill
and Dixon Lyday, and Frank
Duckworth.
Moore-Kilpatrick
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
- Section Two, p 1 & 8 -
added 08 March 2003 by LHR
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