Served As

Glasgow

Town

Manager

Glasgow’s first full-time town manager, Robert Cannon Wynne , died July 10, 2024, in Dunn, N.C., at age 87.

served as Glasgow town manager from 1964 to 1967. His tenure in Glasgow began a lengthy career in local government administration. From Glasgow, he went to Narrows, where he served as town manager for three years.

Following his time in Virginia, he was city manager of Dunn, N.C., from 1972 to 1988, followed by eight years as town manager of Kitty Hawk, N.C. After retirement from Kitty Hawk, he served many towns and cities as an interim manager in North Carolina – some more than once – including Nashville, Carolina Beach, Erwin, River Bend, Kitty Hawk and Hope Mills.

was a life member of the International City/County Management Association. He was also a life member of the North Carolina City and County Manager’s Association. In 1977 he received the Dunn Jaycee Boss of the Year Award. One of his most cherished positions was being a mentor in the Internship Program at Campbell University from 1979 to 1988.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Barbara ; a daughter, Eleanor of Greenville, N.C.; twin sons, Richard of Raleigh, N.C., and David of Durham, N.C.; a twin sister, Margaret Taylor of Dunn; and seven grandchildren.

Taylor is a former Glasgow resident who had been married to the late Charles Locher III, former owner of Locher Brick.

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, came to America at 4 months of age to be raised by his second cousin, Margaret Forbes, and her husband Paul Forbes. Later he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. His birth father and mother were Harry and

grew up in Virginia Beach, graduating from Princess Anne High School in 1955. He attended Virginia Military Institute for one year, during the 1955-56 school year.

A memorial service was held at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Erwin, N.C., on July 20. His family gathered in Glasgow on Oct. 12 at St. John’s Episcopal Church. From there, they attended a graveside interment ceremony at Glasgow Cemetery. He requested the interment in Glasgow because that was where he launched his career in local government administration. The Rev. Dr. Robert Copenhaver, a former rector of the church, was the priest at the service. He played “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes at the conclusion of the ceremony.

The family requests that memorial donations be given in his memory to either St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Memorial Fund (209 Denim Dr., Erwin, NC 28339) or to Dunn Police Athletic League “playgrounds, not prisons” (Dunn PAL, P.O. Box 1238, Dunn, NC 28335, or online at https://dunnpal.org/ donate-to-dunn-pal/).

Arrangements were handled by Skinner and Smith Funeral Home in Dunn.

NICHOLL