Raleigh News & Observer
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Billy "Bill" Seale, 72, died Sunday evening at Duke Health Raleigh Hospital. He was born in Lexington, IL, a son of the late Lucille Bishop Seale and Everette Seale, and was preceded in death by his beloved wife Mary Louise Scarborough Seale in 1991. He graduated from Lexington Community High School and later attended and graduated from King's Business College with his wife.
Mr. Seale was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He met Mary Louise Scarborough during this time and they were married in Belton, MO. in 1956. After a distinguished Military Service they moved to Rolesville, NC, where he was employed with Williams Realty and Building for 29 years as a carpenter.
Funeral service will be held 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, January 10, 2007 in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Scarborough family cemetery on Century Farm Rd. in Rolesville. Bill is survived by his daughter, Kimberly Ann Seale of Clayton; a granddaughter, Ashley Scarborough Jones of Clayton; sisters-in-law, Dorothy Neville and husband, B.W., Leola Hailey and husband, Willard, Delores Stager and husband, Stan, Barbara Ann Pearce and husband, Delano, Judith F. Scarborough, and many beloved friends in Rolesville.
Per Mr. Seale, "Positively No Damn Flowers".
Memorials may be made to Rolesville Baptist Church in memory of Mary Louise Scarborough Seale. Friends may visit with the family from 1-2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and all other times at the home of Barbara Ann & Delano Pearce, Century Farm Rd. Rolesville, N.C.