Robie Pearson

Robie Pearson
January 13, 1924 -July 14, 2013

Robie Pearson, 89, of Wilson passed away Sunday.   Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Thursday at Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness Church, 5843 Shiloh Church Road, Wilson.   Interment will follow in Bailey Town Cemetery.   The Rev. Elwood Long and the Rev. Allen Pearson will officiate.

The family will receive friends 6 -8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Joyner's Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway and other times at the residence.

Robie was a member of Shiloh Pentecostal Church where he served as a deacon. He was a building contractor and he assisted in building the present church in 1959.   He served his country honorably and faithfully with the US Army during World War II.

Robie is survived by his son, Phillip Pearson and wife, Edna of Bailey; his daughter, Cathy P. Gammon and husband, Ron of Smithfield; his grandsons, Allen Pearson, Harold Pearson and wife, Laura; Cameron Gammon and wife, Erica; and Drew Gammon; his granddaughters, Courtland Gammon and Madison Gammon; his great-grandson, Nathaniel Pearson; his great-granddaughter, Hannah Pearson; seven step-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; Bartley and Olar Lamm Pearson; Vernell Mercer Pearson wife of 56 years; Ruth Phillips Rose Pearson wife of nine years; seven brothers and five sisters.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness Church, 5843 Shiloh Church Road, Wilson, NC   27896.

Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.