Wilmington News Journal, Wednesday,
December 15, 1948 :
Lewes, Delaware December 16,
1948:
John Bearman Wine, retired manager
for the Eastern States Wilbur – Suchard Chocolate
Candy Company which he served for 51
years until a heart attack in 1946. He was the
commodore of the Lewes Yacht Club for
10 years ending in 1946. Wine was 69 years of
age at his death the 13th
December 1948 in Beebe Hospital , Lewes. John was born
28 February 1879, Pilot Town,
Sussex county, Delaware but moved right away to
Philadelphia with parents John N.
and Aberteen Hickman Wine. Later he made his
home in Narberth, Pennsylvania and
owned a summer home , “Frost Bite Villa” on
Lewes Beach. He was one of the most
active members of the Lewes Yacht Club.
John Bearman Wine leaves his widow,
Margaret Kepley Wine, a son John Wesley Wine,
a sister, Marian Wine Leatherman,
of Philadelphia, and, a brother Nathaniel Wine
of Camden, New Jersey.
His private funeral service was
conducted by Dr. Rev. William Leishman at the Atkins
Funeral Home. Lewes, Saturday,
December 18th, 1948,,with burial in Bethel Methodist
Cemetery.
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