A Belhaven nursing student at Beaufort County Community College has received a scholarship established by a former Roanoke Rapids Postal Service employee in honor of his parents.
Receiving the scholarship is Kenyetta Lynch. Lynch, 21, of Belhaven is a student in BCCC ’s Associate Degree Nursing Porgram. A graduate of Northside High School, she is employed as a Certified Nurse Assistant at Autumfield of Belhaven. She is the daughter of Betty Gatlin of New Bern and Sean Fields of Belhaven. After graduating from BCCC, she hopes to work as a nurse at a hospital in eastern North Carolina.
Clarence W. Hollowell, Jr., then supervisor for city delivery for the U.S. Postal Service in Roanoke Rapids, established the endowment in 2003 to honor his parents, Mildred and Clarence Hollowell.
Hollowell’s father, Clarence, was a native of Belhaven who served until his retirement in the U.S. Coast Guard. After Hollowell’s retirement from the Coast Guard, the family moved to Belhaven. Clarence Hollowell, Sr., and his wife, Mildred, had six children. A daughter, Debbie H. Smith, graduated from BCCC’s Associate Degree Nursing program in 1977.
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