Roy Lee Inscore

Roy Lee Inscore

September 26, 1923 – February 4, 2014

Roy Lee Inscore, 90, of Wilson passed away Tuesday.  Masonic services will be held 2 p.m. Friday at Joyner’s Funeral Home.  A graveside service with Masonic rites  will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.  The Rev. Dr. Doug Murray will officiate. The family will receive friends 1 – 1:45 p.m. Friday prior to the service at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway. Roy was born and raised in Mt. Airy.  His father was best buddies with Andy Griffith’s father.  He served in WWII during the European Theater with the 295 Ordinance Company.  His army division liberated Auswitz concentration camp.  After the war, Roy was interested in the electrical wire industry.  He was employed with Essex Wire in Mt. Airy for thirteen years before moving to Elm City in 1957.  Roy was one of the five founding fathers of Thermatics which was bought out by Teledyne in 1966.  At that time he became President until retirement thirty-two years later.  Under his leadership, Thermatics started out with ten employees to a firm with four hundred fifty employees.  The business crafted insulated wire and cable for the U.S. space industry program along with the commercial and military market.  There is an exhibit of the wire that was used in the first orbital spacecraft at the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum in Washington, D.C.  He was able to participate in the WWII Freedom Flight to the WWII memorial in Washington.  Until his bad health, Roy enjoyed fishing, golfing and hunting. Roy was very active in the community.  He was a member of the Wilson County ABC Board, director of the Wilson County Chamber of Commerce, former Wilson County Industrial Management Council, and a director of the US Department of Energy.  Governor Holshouser appointed him to the State and Economic Development Council in 1974.  He was very active in the local, state and national Republican Party.  He actively supported Governor James Holshouser, Governor James Martin, and Senator Jesse Helms, President Ronald Reagan plus others.  Roy served as director and past president of the Wilson County Shrine Club, he was a Master Mason for sixty years, a member of the Mount Lebanon Masonic Lodge #117, past president of the Elm City Rotary Club.  Roy was a past member of the Elks and Moose Lodge and the Wilson Country Club.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Wilson. Roy leaves to cherish his wife of seventy- two years, Mozelle Banks Inscore of the home; his sons, Tony Harold Inscore and wife, Marie of Rocky Mount and Timothy Lee Inscore and wife, Suzanne of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; his five grandchildren, Hope Walker of Cary, Martha Howard and husband, Richard of Raleigh, Cameron Gardner and Eric Brandon of Charlotte, Lee Inscore of Charlotte and Christopher Inscore of Raleigh; his great-grandchildren, Phillipe and Annie Marie Toupin of Cary, Grandison and Addie Marie Howard of Raleigh, and Dylan Scott Gardner of Charlotte; his sister, Dot O’Briant of Laurinburg,  and his caretaker, Marie Smith. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Monroe Inscore and Martha Byrd Inscore and his siblings, Hattie Colbert, Columbus Inscore, Howard Inscore, John Inscore, Marcus Inscore, Lytle Inscore, Thelma Hall, Clyde Inscore and Mary Starling. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 403 E. Front Street, New Bern, NC  28560 or to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.