Call it something of a father-and-son rite of passage. A father and his boy throwing a baseball to one another. “He was always ready to field some balls” after work, Jack McGinley says about his father, John McGinley, who worked as a foreman in a paint factory in Blackwood, New Jersey, a little town about 12 miles east of Philadelphia, or “east of Philly” as Jack McGinley says.
April 2022
Posted inJernigan-Warren Funeral Home, Obituaries
Bobby Gatewood Beard
Bobby Gatewood Beard died at Cape Fear Valley hospital on March 30, 2022. He was 3 weeks shy of being 93 years old. He grew up in Eastover NC on the family farm with no electricity or …

