Richard Arnold Jeffords, Sr.

Mr. Richard Arnold Jeffords, Sr. age 92, of Lewisville, passed away Saturday, July 23, 2016 at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston Salem. He was born in Surry County on July 20, 1924 to Boyd L. and Bertha Arnold Jeffords. He graduated from Germanton High School and attended High Point College. Mr. Jeffords was a supervisor with K.R. Edwards Tobacco Company in Smithfield, NC and later Executive VP of Winston Leaf Tobacco Company in Winston Salem, headquartered out of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company in Richmond, Va. He flew 48 combat single sortie missions as a gunner in a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific during World War II. Mr. Jeffords was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, the Fellowship Masonic Lodge #84 AF and AM in Smithfield, NC, the Winston-Salem Scottish Rite bodies, and the Sudan Temple in New Bern, NC. Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Anne Taylor Jeffords of the home, a son R.A. ""Dick"" Jeffords, Jr of Lincolnton, a daughter Lou Ann ""L.A."" Jeffords of Atlantic Beach, NC, three grandchildren Laura Moore, Candice Grubb, and R.A. ""Richard"" Jeffords, III, four great-grandchildren Max and Miles Grubb and Jackson and Maverick Moore, a brother J. Cecil Jeffords of Winston Salem. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 3:00 PM at the Boyles Chapel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, 4632 NC Hwy 66, King, NC 27021 with Dr. Gary Chapman officiating. The family will receive friends Wednesday, July 27, 2016 from 12:30 until 2:00 at Hayworth-Miller Lewisville Chapel in Lewisville, NC. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Masonic Home for Children, 600 College St., Oxford, NC 27565 or to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, 815 Market St., Galveston, TX 77550.

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