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December 1, 1987

Thomas Edward Powell Jr.

Wauban Labatories founder dead at 88

Wauban Labatories founder dead at 88Dr. Thomas Powell Jr.Dr. Thomas
Edward Powell Jr., founder of Wauhun laboratories, died Tuesday in
Burlington, N.C.Powell, 88, a native of Warrenton, N.C. and a resident
of Burlington, founded Waubun laboratories, located in Schreiver, in
1945 In 1970. Rana Laboratories, a division of Waubun, was opened in
Brownsville, Tex.Powell, a graduate of Elon College in Burlington,
earned his Ph.D. from Duke University in Biology in 1930. He received an
honorary doctor of science degree from Elon in 1968 and the same title
from Duke in May of this year. Powell directed his research toward the
life history and control of the tobacco beetle.The Carolina Biological
Supply Company was founded by Powell in 1927 and he headed operation of
the company on a full-time basis since 1936. The company has offices in
Gladstone, Ore., Jonesport, Me., Warrenton and Burlington, N.C.Powell
was given the Distinguished Service Award from the Virginia Military
Institute. This is the highest award given by the school and Powell was
the second non-alumnus to receive the honor. He was a life member of the
Parents Council at VMI and served on the Board of Directors for the VMI
Research Institute from 1963 to 1969.Powell was an instructor of biology
and geology at Elon College from 1919 to 1936. He was on active duty in
the U.S. Army during World War I and joined the Army Reserve after the
war. Powell resigned his commission in the army reserve in 1935.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Front Street United
Methodist Church and interment was in Magnolia Cemetery, Elon College,
N.C.

He is survived by his second wife, Annabelle Council Powell; daughters,
Mrs. Sophia Wolfe, Odenton. Md., and Annabelle "Beth" Powell Guy,
Burlington; sons, Joseph Powell, Sanger, Tex., Thomas III, John, James,
William and Samuel Powell, Burlington; and sister, Caroline E. Powell,
Elon College.

He is also survived by 15 grandchildren and two-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Sophia Maude Sharpe Powell;
and parents, Thomas Edward and Clara Morton Bobbitt Powell.