Sibyl Berniece CARAWAN

Sibyl C. Bouchard SWAN QUARTER -- Sibyl Berniece Carawan Bouchard was born to Robert Marcus and Deb Jarvis Carawan Feb. 18, 1920, at the home of her aunt, Ora Spencer in Swan Quarter. After a brief battle with liver cancer, Sibyl died Sept. 26, 2005, at home on Tiny Oak Road, now Quarter Road. She leaves behind two daughters, Georgine Blanche Bouchard Armstrong and husband Dennis Armstrong and their children and grandkids, Beverly Louise Armstrong Smith and husband James David Smith and their children, Perry and Leah of Suffolk, Edward Scott Armstrong and wife Mary Lee Armstrong and their son, Jake of Frisco, Texas, Brian Keith Armstrong and wife Jennifer Tiernery Armstrong and their children, Blake and Jason of Charlottesville, Va.; her daughter, Jane Paige Bouchard Hodges and husband Timmie Hodges and their son, Bruce Lee Hodges, all of Buzzards Roost in Swan Quarter; a sister-in-law, Mary Carawan and son Robert Evans Carawan Jr. and wife Louise and their son, Benjamin Marcus Carawan of Portsmouth, R.I.; a sister, Ella Rosetta Carawan Davis and son, Harry Leroy Davis III and fiancee Theresa and his children, Harry Leroy Davis IV (Rolley) and Cameron Lane and daughter, Janice Lynne Davis Logan and her husband Phillip Logan and their children, Benjamin Davis Logan and Austin Carter Logan, all of Virginia Beach. Along with our Lord Jesus Christ, those to welcome Sibyl into her new home will be her parents, Robert Marcus and Deb Jarvis Carawan, her sister, Ella Kathryn Carawan and her brother, Robert Evans Carawan Sr. After graduation from Swan Quarter High School in 1938, she worked as Watts Hospital. Four months later, she returned home to work on the WPA program in Engelhard. She continued with her nursing in the spring of 1939 at the mental hospital in Williamsburg, Va. She left after one year and went to Carolina General Hospital School of Nursing for two years and spent a year at the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond. She received her R.N. degree in 1944. She went to work at Henderson General Hospital in Henderson. She joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1945 and her training took her to Memphis, Tenn., Fort Rucker, Ala., Fort Jackson, S.C., Foster General Hospital in Jackson, Miss., and ended at Fort Benning, Ga. She attained the rank of 1st lieutenant before being honorably discharged. Sibyl returned to Swan Quarter to work as the public health nurse with the county. She retired after 30 years with the Hyde County Health Dept. She served as an elder at Calvary Presbyterian Church, Swan Quarter, and was a member of Post 0211 of the American Legion. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Calvary Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Candace Worth officiating. Burial will follow in Soule Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations should be directed to Calvary Presbyterian Church, c/o Monna Lou Hopkins, 5909 Quarter Road, Swan Quarter, NC 27885. The family will receive friends at Bryan Funeral Service today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and other times at the home.