Mary Allen Hinton

Obituary Mary M. Hinton, 87, of Morehead City, passed away at home on Sat., Feb. 3 surrounded by her family. She was born on February 18, 1930, in Rock Hill, S.C., to Mary Daniels Willis of Morehead and her husband Joseph Allen Miller of Rock Hill. The family moved permanently to Morehead when Mary Allen, as she was always known, was 6 years old. She graduated from Morehead City High School in 1948, and she lived in her house on Evans Street, on the edge of the Promise Land, for 54 years starting in 1951. Mary Allen spent the last 12 years of her life at Ekklesia in Morehead, where she was happy. Important people in her life were her great-uncle and great-aunt E.C. ('Uncle Gene') and Ethel Oglesby Willis, along with their four children and all their grandchildren. They were Mary Allen's family after her father died suddenly in 1939. Her mother 'Mary D.' passed away in 1949 after a long illness. Mary Allen always said she thought Carteret County was the most beautiful place on Earth, and she never wanted to live anywhere else. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her first husband, Charles Kenneth Broadhurst of Morehead, and her second husband, Quentine P. Hinton of Spring Hope. Both died in 1990. Her sister Ann Miller Olsson of Newport passed away in 2015. A memorial service/open house will take place Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00 at Ekklesia in Morehead City, in the community building. With Mary Allen's passing, left behind are her two children, Joanna Broadhurst of Newport and Charles K. 'Kenny' Broadhurst, Jr., of the Loire Valley in France; her grandaughter Charleigh Matice and husband Mark of Newport; three great-grandaughters, Alana, Carleigh, and Ruby; and her niece Ginger Olsson Wade and nephew Thomas Anton Olsson, both also of Newport. Mary Allen worked for many years at Dee Gees gift shop on the Morehead waterfront, going back to the days when D.G. Bell still owned the shop, and then later at Belk when the store was still located in Morehead Plaza. For the last 20 years of her life she was a volunteer at Marthas Mission in Morehead City, and in 2011 received the Governor's Award for distinguished volunteer service. In the 1990s, Mary Allen and her sister, Ann, wrote and published three cookbooks as 'The Cooking Ladies.' Thousands of those books were sold in gift shops and museum stores all up and down the N.C. coast. A donation to Martha's Mission is a good way to honor Mary Allen's memory. Condolences and life tributes may be sent to the family at www.noefs.org Arrangements by Noe Funeral Service, Inc. of Beaufort, NC. Services You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or by planting a memorial tree in the memory of Mary Allen (Miller) Hinton