Michael Corbett Stovall Jr. WILMINGTON — Michael Corbett Stovall Jr., 69, passed away Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, surrounded by family at Brookdale Memory Care center in Wilmington. Michael was the son of Mary Bellamy Koonce and Michael Corbett Stovall, both of Wilmington; grandson of Nora Meade Corbett Stovall and Major Harry Wylie Stovall and Lillian Maxwell Bellamy and The Honorable Emmett Hargrove Bellamy, and the husband of Kathleen Lester Stovall, formerly of Reidsville. He had two sons, Michael Corbett Stovall III of Brooklyn, New York, and Christopher Talley Stovall of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Born Aug. 7, 1951, in Houston, Michael was a go-getter as a child. He enjoyed playing catcher for his Little League team, coached by his father. In addition to backing up pitchers, he won “Most Typical Cowboy” and was able to meet Roy Rogers as a result. His love for dogs began as a child, with his first dog, Joe, and continuing to his stepfather’s musically named Golden Retriever “hunting” dogs, and later Walter and Ocie. At age 6, he received his first Sunfish, which sparked a lifelong love of sailing. During his childhood, his family would return to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach where he spent many summers with his cousins Mary, Emmett and Leslie Boney, who he considered more like siblings. He moved back to Wilmington at the age of 14 and continued sailing, surfing and getting into trouble with his good friends. One notable bit of trouble involved surfing off of Johnny Mercer’s pier, which his mother never would have found out about had a Wilmington Star reporter not caught him in the act.