August 29, 2025, 92, Goldsboro —
The Rev. Millard Fillmore Bounds passed away peacefully at his home in Faison on Friday, August 29, 2025.
A service of love and remembrance will be held on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at Tyndall Funeral Home. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Rev. Bounds will be laid to rest following a committal service on Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 pm.at Onslow Memorial Park, Jacksonville, NC
Millard F Bounds was born in the community of Carnes, Mississippi on January 7, 1933, to parents Ida Isabelle Anderson and Benjamin Franklin Bounds. Eight siblings, in order, included: Gus, Nancy, Penny, Cleo, Millard, Bill, Henry and Ira. All have preceded him to heaven. The four little brothers each won Golden Gloves Boxing Championships. At age 14 Millard suffered a ruptured appendix sustained at football practice, but was saved by prayers and penicillin, among the first patients to receive the drug in the deep South. Millard graduated from Brooklyn High School and briefly attended and played basketball at William Carey College in Hattiesburg before he joined the Marine Corps to fight in the Korean Conflict, from which he was spared by Armistice. After his tour at Camp Lejeune, he married Arland Virginia Wilkins in Jacksonville. They returned to Mississippi where Millard enrolled as a ministerial student in Southeastern Baptist College in Laurel. As he launched his career as a preacher, Arland started producing babies, Lynn, Denese and Greg. Grand children ultimately followed, including: the Thornburg kids, Ben, Rebekah, Anna; the Ehrenfried kids: Tiffany Bryan, Phillip, Paige, and the Bounds kids: Matthew, Joseph, Daniel, Andrew, Noah and Naomi. Great-grandsons include Jaxin and Eli. Millard worked as a school teacher and coach of various junior high sports at Dixon and Chinquapin in the ‘60s and ‘70s. He pastored numerous Baptist churches, including, in order: Calvary in Warsaw, Dobson Chapel near Kenansville, Westfield in Surry County, Bear Marsh in Beautancus, Arbor Springs near Northport, AL, Island Creek in Greenevers. In semi-retirement he served as interim pastor, at Mt. Vernon, Emmaus, and Peace. Millard preached innumerable revivals throughout our region, winning souls for Jesus in 8 decades of preaching.
Lovingly prepared by Rev. Bounds Family.
