With the passing of Mrs. Hattie Galloway, Brunswick County lost one of it's most beloved and most colorful residents.
Mrs. Galloway had a premonition that she would not last the year, but her friends and family were convinced she would live long beyond her 76 years she had attained. She was physically active and mentally alert throughout her life. Her intimates referred to her as "76 years young" rather than as "76 years old". She was, in a way a victim of Hurricane Connie and Diane. Even though she, herself, was so sure that her end would come in 1955 that she outlined funeral and burial plans to her family even to the extent of naming the honorary and active pallbearers, nevertheless her daughter and sons were sure she would round out many more years.
When Hurricane Connie threatened, she left her home at Supply to be with her son, First Deputy Sheriff Marion Leon Galloway, and his family at their home in Shallotte. There, awaiting the approaching storm, she fell and fractured her leg. An ambulance took her through the storm to the hospital in Wilmington. The fracture was reduced; her foot and lower leg placed in a cast. In a few days she was permitted to return home.
Tuesday night, she was in considerable pain. Wednesday it was more intense. The Deputy Sheriff became alarmed. He located Dr. Rourk, Mrs. Galloway's physician and close personal friend. Dr. Rourk found her leg swollen and angry. The cast prohibited close examination. He ordered her returned immediately to the hospital. There, removal of the cast revealed advanced gangrenous condition. The blood poison had gone to far.
In a hruuicane, she had suffered in the fall which presaged her end. In another approaching hurricane, she awaited the inevitable end. It came in the early hours of Thursday morning, as Diane raged through Wilmington and battered against the hospital in which she calmly accepted the fate which she had foretold months before.
As she requested, funeral services were held at her home in Supply, at 3:30 in the afternoon following her death, and burial was in the family plot at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery.
Also according to her plan and request, the active pallbearers were Archibald Henry, Henry Eugene Gilbert, Charlie Taylor, Buren Greer, A.P. Henry, Jr., and Vincent McKeithan and honorary pallbearers were Dr. M. H. Rourk, Dr. R. H. Holden, Jewel McKeithan, H. C. Stone, Hobson Kirby, Fred Mintz, Guy McKeithanm and Alton Bennett.
Mrs. Galloway is survived by a daughter Miss Frances Galloway, who remained with her to the end; three sons Marion Leon Galloway of Shallotte, James "Jimmy" H. Galloway of Bolivia, Lawrence Richmond Galloway of Castle Hayne; three brothers, David Leon Henry of Rocky Mount, John Lawrence Henry, and Asa Preston Henry both of Winnabow, and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Galloway had a premonition that she would not last the year, but her friends and family were convinced she would live long beyond her 76 years she had attained. She was physically active and mentally alert throughout her life. Her intimates referred to her as "76 years young" rather than as "76 years old". She was, in a way a victim of Hurricane Connie and Diane. Even though she, herself, was so sure that her end would come in 1955 that she outlined funeral and burial plans to her family even to the extent of naming the honorary and active pallbearers, nevertheless her daughter and sons were sure she would round out many more years.
When Hurricane Connie threatened, she left her home at Supply to be with her son, First Deputy Sheriff Marion Leon Galloway, and his family at their home in Shallotte. There, awaiting the approaching storm, she fell and fractured her leg. An ambulance took her through the storm to the hospital in Wilmington. The fracture was reduced; her foot and lower leg placed in a cast. In a few days she was permitted to return home.
Tuesday night, she was in considerable pain. Wednesday it was more intense. The Deputy Sheriff became alarmed. He located Dr. Rourk, Mrs. Galloway's physician and close personal friend. Dr. Rourk found her leg swollen and angry. The cast prohibited close examination. He ordered her returned immediately to the hospital. There, removal of the cast revealed advanced gangrenous condition. The blood poison had gone to far.
In a hruuicane, she had suffered in the fall which presaged her end. In another approaching hurricane, she awaited the inevitable end. It came in the early hours of Thursday morning, as Diane raged through Wilmington and battered against the hospital in which she calmly accepted the fate which she had foretold months before.
As she requested, funeral services were held at her home in Supply, at 3:30 in the afternoon following her death, and burial was in the family plot at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery.
Also according to her plan and request, the active pallbearers were Archibald Henry, Henry Eugene Gilbert, Charlie Taylor, Buren Greer, A.P. Henry, Jr., and Vincent McKeithan and honorary pallbearers were Dr. M. H. Rourk, Dr. R. H. Holden, Jewel McKeithan, H. C. Stone, Hobson Kirby, Fred Mintz, Guy McKeithanm and Alton Bennett.
Mrs. Galloway is survived by a daughter Miss Frances Galloway, who remained with her to the end; three sons Marion Leon Galloway of Shallotte, James "Jimmy" H. Galloway of Bolivia, Lawrence Richmond Galloway of Castle Hayne; three brothers, David Leon Henry of Rocky Mount, John Lawrence Henry, and Asa Preston Henry both of Winnabow, and six grandchildren.
With the passing of Mrs. Hattie Galloway, Brunswick County lost one of it's most beloved and most colorful residents.
Mrs. Galloway had a premonition that she would not last the year, but her friends and family were convinced she would live long beyond her 76 years she had attained. She was physically active and mentally alert throughout her life. Her intimates referred to her as "76 years young" rather than as "76 years old". She was, in a way a victim of Hurricane Connie and Diane. Even though she, herself, was so sure that her end would come in 1955 that she outlined funeral and burial plans to her family even to the extent of naming the honorary and active pallbearers, nevertheless her daughter and sons were sure she would round out many more years.
When Hurricane Connie threatened, she left her home at Supply to be with her son, First Deputy Sheriff Marion Leon Galloway, and his family at their home in Shallotte. There, awaiting the approaching storm, she fell and fractured her leg. An ambulance took her through the storm to the hospital in Wilmington. The fracture was reduced; her foot and lower leg placed in a cast. In a few days she was permitted to return home.
Tuesday night, she was in considerable pain. Wednesday it was more intense. The Deputy Sheriff became alarmed. He located Dr. Rourk, Mrs. Galloway's physician and close personal friend. Dr. Rourk found her leg swollen and angry. The cast prohibited close examination. He ordered her returned immediately to the hospital. There, removal of the cast revealed advanced gangrenous condition. The blood poison had gone to far.
In a hruuicane, she had suffered in the fall which presaged her end. In another approaching hurricane, she awaited the inevitable end. It came in the early hours of Thursday morning, as Diane raged through Wilmington and battered against the hospital in which she calmly accepted the fate which she had foretold months before.
As she requested, funeral services were held at her home in Supply, at 3:30 in the afternoon following her death, and burial was in the family plot at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery.
Also according to her plan and request, the active pallbearers were Archibald Henry, Henry Eugene Gilbert, Charlie Taylor, Buren Greer, A.P. Henry, Jr., and Vincent McKeithan and honorary pallbearers were Dr. M. H. Rourk, Dr. R. H. Holden, Jewel McKeithan, H. C. Stone, Hobson Kirby, Fred Mintz, Guy McKeithanm and Alton Bennett.
Mrs. Galloway is survived by a daughter Miss Frances Galloway, who remained with her to the end; three sons Marion Leon Galloway of Shallotte, James "Jimmy" H. Galloway of Bolivia, Lawrence Richmond Galloway of Castle Hayne; three brothers, David Leon Henry of Rocky Mount, John Lawrence Henry, and Asa Preston Henry both of Winnabow, and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Galloway had a premonition that she would not last the year, but her friends and family were convinced she would live long beyond her 76 years she had attained. She was physically active and mentally alert throughout her life. Her intimates referred to her as "76 years young" rather than as "76 years old". She was, in a way a victim of Hurricane Connie and Diane. Even though she, herself, was so sure that her end would come in 1955 that she outlined funeral and burial plans to her family even to the extent of naming the honorary and active pallbearers, nevertheless her daughter and sons were sure she would round out many more years.
When Hurricane Connie threatened, she left her home at Supply to be with her son, First Deputy Sheriff Marion Leon Galloway, and his family at their home in Shallotte. There, awaiting the approaching storm, she fell and fractured her leg. An ambulance took her through the storm to the hospital in Wilmington. The fracture was reduced; her foot and lower leg placed in a cast. In a few days she was permitted to return home.
Tuesday night, she was in considerable pain. Wednesday it was more intense. The Deputy Sheriff became alarmed. He located Dr. Rourk, Mrs. Galloway's physician and close personal friend. Dr. Rourk found her leg swollen and angry. The cast prohibited close examination. He ordered her returned immediately to the hospital. There, removal of the cast revealed advanced gangrenous condition. The blood poison had gone to far.
In a hruuicane, she had suffered in the fall which presaged her end. In another approaching hurricane, she awaited the inevitable end. It came in the early hours of Thursday morning, as Diane raged through Wilmington and battered against the hospital in which she calmly accepted the fate which she had foretold months before.
As she requested, funeral services were held at her home in Supply, at 3:30 in the afternoon following her death, and burial was in the family plot at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery.
Also according to her plan and request, the active pallbearers were Archibald Henry, Henry Eugene Gilbert, Charlie Taylor, Buren Greer, A.P. Henry, Jr., and Vincent McKeithan and honorary pallbearers were Dr. M. H. Rourk, Dr. R. H. Holden, Jewel McKeithan, H. C. Stone, Hobson Kirby, Fred Mintz, Guy McKeithanm and Alton Bennett.
Mrs. Galloway is survived by a daughter Miss Frances Galloway, who remained with her to the end; three sons Marion Leon Galloway of Shallotte, James "Jimmy" H. Galloway of Bolivia, Lawrence Richmond Galloway of Castle Hayne; three brothers, David Leon Henry of Rocky Mount, John Lawrence Henry, and Asa Preston Henry both of Winnabow, and six grandchildren.
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