TAR HEEL OF THE WEEK

RALEIGH'S NEWS AND OBSERVER---SUNDAY,JANUARY 24, 1999

BRUCE LIGHTNER

"TEACH US..OH LORD...THE WAY WE shalt go...."

TO BE RATHER THAN TO SEEM
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Bruce Lightner, a working (for the same cause) friend of mine, was honored by one of the State's leading newspapers to be

" The Tar Heel of the Week ".

(EXCEPTS FROM THE NEWS AND OBSERVER BELOW)

......His name appears only once on the 20-page program of events. It is listed, below the Rev. Dumas Harshaw Jr., as co-chairman of the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee. Yet there is virtually no event commemorating King in Raleigh that does not bear Bruce Lightner's fingerprints-- from the wreath-laying at the MLK MEMORIAL GARDENS, which LIGHTNER DESIGNED AND RAISED THE MONEY for himself, to the melodic exuberance of the nationallly acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. All-Children's Choir, which Lightner founded..........
BRUCE LIGHTNER

Born: June 28.1947

Occupation: President, Lightner Funeral Home of Raleigh

Education: Graduated Ligon High School, 1965; attended Winston-Salem State University.

Family: Wife, Wando; sons Lawrence, 31, Frank, 14, and Nick, 11; stepson Warren, 26; father Clarence Lightner; mother, Marguerite; two sister, Debra J. Lightner and claire Lighter-Sharpe; and brother, the late Lawrence Lightner.

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