Methodist Orphanage News Today

They were barely in double digits when they first held hands after chapel. Now they live at a Cary retirement center. And they’re still holding hands.

CHAPEL HILL — Marcus Fredrick Edwards Jr., 78, passed away Thursday (12/10/20) at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was born Aug. 1, 1942, in Person County to Marcus Fredrick Edwards and Myrtle Thomas Dunn. After the death of his father in 1952, he and three of his brothers were raised in Raleigh at the Methodist Orphanage, now known as the Methodist Home for Children. Later in life, he became a board member of the Methodist Orphanage/Methodist Home for Children Alumni Association. He final...