DATE: Sunday, August 24, 1997               TAG: 9708240024

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WALLACE W. HARVEY JR.

Capt. Wallace Watson Harvey Jr., M.D., 74, died Friday, Aug. 22, 1997, in an Elizabeth City Hospital.

Dr. Harvey was born in Greensboro, N.C., and was the son of the late Dr. Wallace Watson Harvey Sr. and Jimmie Sue Huling Harvey. He was a World War II veteran, having served in the U.S. Army. Dr. Harvey was a member of St. Andrews by the Sea Episcopal Church, was an Episcopal lay reader, and had currently been attending First Assembly of God Church. He graduated from Wake Forest College and Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Harvey was a former mayor of Manteo and a Dare County commissioner. He served on the North Carolina Rural Health Commission, was the president of the Dare County Water Ways Improvement Commission and the Tri-State Medical Association. Dr. Harvey had a presidential appointment to the First Water Pollution Advisory Control Board under the Environmental Protection Agency from 1969 until 1973. He was a member of the Richardson Foundation, which awards scholarships to East Carolina University and was appointed to the North Carolina Standard and Accountability Commission.

Dr. Harvey practiced medicine in Manteo for 18 years. He was commissioned as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Public Health Service; he served 17 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. He was stationed in Mobile, Ala.; Alameda, Calif.; Governor's Island, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Portsmouth.

Dr. Harvey is survived by his wife, Margaret McMurran Nelson Harvey of Manteo; two daughters, Elizabeth H. Granitzki and husband, Jeffrey, of Manteo, and Judith H. Bowen and husband, Norman, of Atlanta; a son, Wallace Watson Harvey III and his wife, Nancy S., of Manteo; and a twin sister, Wilma H. Richardson and her husband, Eldon B., of Lynchburg, Va. He was predeceased by his brother, Jimmie H. Harvey.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in First Assembly of God Church, Manteo, by the Revs. Ron Denham and the Revs. Charles Gill. Burial will follow in Manteo Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Twiford's Colony Chapel, Manteo, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to St. Andrews By the Sea or to First Assembly of God or the Convocation of Christian Indian Leaders, 1445 Booneville Ave., Springfield, Mo. 65802. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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