Banner Fowler Shelton
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SHELTON KING - Mr. Banner Fowler Shelton, 87, passed away Sunday morning, December 12, 2010. He was born June 28, 1923 in Stokes County to Banner P. and Ressie Fowler Shelton. Banner was in the entertainment field from 1945 to 1949 and in broadcasting from 1949 to 1986 at WMYM Radio in Madison-Mayodan, NC for 25 years. He served as a Stokes County Commissioner from 1986 to 1992, the Stokes County Soil and Water District from 1983 to 2005, Board of Counsel of Governments for 6 years, and was a former chairman of board for Pilot View RC&D. He is survived by his wife, Ruby Harden Shelton; son, William Ronald Shelton of NY, and a daughter, Deborah Bolduc and husband Frank of Southport; grandsons, Stephen Everett Alexander Shelton and wife Monica, Michael Joseph Gallagher and wife Jennifer of Raleigh, and Brian Paul Bolduc of Raleigh, one granddaughter, Erin Melissa Bolduc of Wilmington; cousin Frank Fowler of King, and a special friend of the family Frank Salerno of NY. Funeral Services will be held 1 PM, Tuesday, December 14, at Mount Olive Baptist Church with the Rev. Carl Goodman and the Rev. Yates Wilkinson, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening, Monday, December 13, at the Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mount Olive Baptist Church, 5413 NC Hwy 66 S., King, NC 27021 or to Hospice and Palliative Care Center, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. (Slate Funeral Home) Published in Winston-Salem Journal on December 13, 2010
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