Gail A. Banks

Published 12:44 pm Tuesday, March 26, 2013

By Mike Voss

Mrs. Belinda Gail Alligood “Nana” Banks, age 61, a resident of 548 Hodges Rd., Chocowinity, NC died Sunday March 24, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.

A memorial service will be held 3 pm Thursday March 28, 2013 at Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington officiated by Pastor Ray Webb.

Mrs. Banks was born in Beaufort County on December 14, 1951 daughter of the late Elijah Plum Alligood and the late Lillian Mae Randolph Alligood. She married Jack Mack Banks on January 24, 1984 who survives. Mrs. Banks was a homemaker.

Survivors include two daughters: Susan Woolard of Washington and Ashley Banks of Chocowinity; a son: Richard “Ricky” Banks of Chocowinity; five sisters: Myrtle Hodges of Washington, Doris Edwards of Chocowinity, Laura Edwards of Chocowinity, Alice Pyle of Greenville and Geneva Beacham of Chocowinity; eight grandchildren: Austin Woolard, Alexis Rogers, Emanuel Rogers, Londyn Keech, Memphis Keech, Lily Mizell, Heather Banks and Nicole Banks and two great grandchildren: Sidney Wright and Cadence Hare.  Mrs. Banks was predeceased by three brothers: Michael Alligood, Buddy Alligood and Larry Alligood and a sister: Brenda Woolard.

The family will receive friends at the home.

Online condolences may be offered by visiting www.paulfuneralhome.com.

Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington is honored to serve the Banks family.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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