William D. Talley

Published 9:39 am Wednesday, March 27, 2013

By Mike Voss

William D “Bill” Talley, 63, died Saturday, March 23, 2013, at his home.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 am Tuesday, at Community Baptist Church in Newport, NC, with the Rev. Ken Bartholomew officiating. A graveside service will be held 3:00 pm Tuesday at Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, NC.

He was a member of the Community Baptist Church and was very active in the Prison and Jail Ministry.

Bill is survived by his wife of 26 years, Audrey Talley; daughters Bonnie Nelson Jackson and husband Bruce and Judy Nelson Miller and husband Rick all of Wilmington; sons, Bobby Joe Nelson and wife Sandy of Grimesland and Mark Nelson and wife Lisa of Washington; grandchildren Shara Livingston of Newport, Krystle Stallings of Greenville, Preston Nelson of Greensboro, Jonathan Nelson of Washington, and Jannon VanHonk of Ayden; great-grandchildren Camille Livingston, Hudson Livingston, John Nelson, Ella Nelson, Mia Nelson, and Nicholas Stallings; Sister, Barbara Warren and husband Glen of Knightdale; niece Cheryl Warren of Knightdale; and special friend, Jay Hill.

The family will receive friends from 6-8pm Monday at Munden Funeral Home in Morehead City, NC.

Family welcomes flowers or memorials may be made to East Coast Bible College, PO Box 1119, Newport, NC 28570.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.mundenfuneralhome.net.

Arrangements are by Munden Funeral Home, Morehead City, NC.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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