Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 3, 1990 TAG: 9006040339
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE:
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. LENGTH: Short
OBIT--WELFARE, C.
WELFARE, CHARLES R.\
Dr. Charles Randall Welfare, age 76, of 1113 Standish Court, Winston-Salem,
died Saturday in the Forsyth Memorial Hospital, Saturday morning following an
extended illness. He was born April 11, 1914, in Winston-Salem to the late
Bradley Lamar and Mable Sharp Welfare. He was a member of the Wake Forest
Class of 1936 and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School Class of 1940.
He served in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in World War II
in the African and Pacific Theatres. He was in private practice for thirty
years. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Medicine and a fellow of the
American College of Physicians, president of the Forsyth Medical Society and
president of the Forsyth Medical Staff, and chief of Medical Cardiology. He
was a life long member and former deacon of the First Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mary Jessica Gibbons Welfare of the home; son and
daughter-in-law, Charles Randall, Jr. and Teri Welfare, Winston-Salem;
daughter and son-in-law, Kathleen and Alpheus Jones of Warrington, N. C.; four
grandchildren, four brothers, Douglas S. Welfare of Morehead City, N.C.; Henry
F. Welfare, of Clover, S.C.; John M. Welfare of Roanoke; Robert S. Welfare of
Winston-Salem. Funeral services will be conducted 11:00 a.m. Monday at the
Volger Funeral Home, 2651 Reynolds Rd., Winston-Salem, N.C., with interment in
the Forsyth Memorial Park, Winston-Salem. The family suggests in lieu of
flowers, memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Winston-Salem or a
charity of your choice.
by CNB