Woodrow ''Mouse'' Sampson

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Birth: Feb. 1, 1913 Robeson County North Carolina, USA

Death: Oct. 5, 1983 Robeson County North Carolina, USA

Woodrow was the son of Willie Foster, Sr. and Callie Lowry Sampson. He was called Mouse by his family. When he was nine years old, he lost an eye and some fingers when a dynamite cap that he was playing with exploded.

He married Irene Dial, and they had a son. He and Irene also raised the three children of Woodrow's sister, Annie Lois Sampson Jacobs, after her murder. After Irene passed away, he married Deborah Dial Oxendine, the widow of Dr. Herbert G. Oxendine, Sr., on Jun. 7, 1970 in Pembroke, NC.

Woodrow was a retired educator and taught 7th and 8th grade language arts for over forty years in Robeson county, North Carolina at Harper's Ferry, White Hill, Barker Ten Mile, Union Chapel, Deep Branch, and Magnolia. He also was a former president of the Robeson County Teachers Association and president of the Pembroke Lions Club.

The following was taken from the Oct. 7, 198 edition of THE ROBESONIAN:

Woodrow Sampson, 70,of Pembroke, died Wednesday at Cape Fear Valley Hospital. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Berea Baptist Church, with the Revs. James H. Woods, Ron Anderson, T. M. Swett and Welton Lowry officiating. Burial follows in the Deep Branch Cemetery.

He was retired after teaching 43 years in the Robeson County School Systerm, a deacon, choir member and Intermedicate Department teacher at Berea Baptst Church, and charter member of the Pembroke Lions Club.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Deborah O. Sampson, one son, Willie F. Sampson, Pembroke, two stepdaughters, Mrs. Linda O'Conner and Mrs. Marian D. Oxendine, both of Pembroke, two stepsons, Richard A. Oxendine, Pembroke, and Herbert Oxendine, Greenville, two foster daughters, Mrs. Linda Carr, Pembroke, and Mrs. Hannah Sowers, Machester, Pa., one foster son, Sim Jacobs, Pembroke, one brother, Craig Sampson, Rowland, and two sisters, Mrs. Etta Mae Locklear, Pembroke and Mrs. Lessie S. Larson, Albuquerque, N. Mex.

The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to the service.

The family will be at Locklear and Son Funeral Home Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

• **NOTE: In 1933 and 1948, he received degrees from what is presently known as the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In July 2007, the Heritage Walk was dedicated to serve as a permanent monument to all of the university's graduates from 1905 to 1954. Woodrow was honored by having his name engraved on two bricks in the Heritage Walk walkway in front of Old Main, the oldest building on the campus.

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Parents:

*Willie Foster Sampson (1872 - 1956)

• Callie Lowry Sampson (1877 - 1957)

Spouses:

*Irene Dial Sampson (1914 - 1969)

• Deborah Myrtle Dial Sampson (1921 - 1994)*

Burial: Deep Branch Church Cemetery Lumberton Robeson County North Carolina, USA

Created by: melanie Record added: Jan 31, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 64991851