March 28: Happy Birthday! Katharine King Johnson
Katharine King Bahnson de Braganca Johnson was born in Leaksville in 1921. She graduated from Salem College, where she was Queen of the May in 1941, the year she graduated. Also in 1941, she...
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March 27: Happy Birthday! Guy Rucker Dudley
Guy Rucker Dudley was born in Virginia in 1899. He was a World War I veteran, and served as a commander of the Clyde Bolling Post of the American Legion. Guy was educated at...
March 26: Happy 100th Birthday! Frank Buxton Jones Jr.
Frank Buxton Jones Jr. was born in Winston-Salem in 1914, to Frank Buxton and Carrie Keith Jones Sr. He was born in his grandfather Keith’s house on Brookstown Avenue. Frank graduated from R. J....
March 25: Happy Birthday! Reid Thomas Holmes
Reid Thomas Holmes was born in Wildwood, New Jersey, in 1918. He graduated from Duke University and was an administrator at Duke Hospital before coming to Winston-Salem in the mid-1940s. He was the administrator...
March 24: Happy Birthday! Ernest Grady Shore
Ernest Grady Shore, or “Ernie, was born at Shore in Yadkin County in 1891. His ancestors in Yadkin County were farmers. Ernie attended school in Yadkin County, then went to Guildford College where he...
March 23: Happy Birthday! Eva Almira Wall
Eva Almira Wall was born in Forsyth County in 1890. She graduated from the Forsyth County schools and Salem College. She worked for the City of Winston-Salem as an auditor, a trouble-shooter for City...
March 22: Happy Birthday! William Neal Reynolds
William Neal Reynolds was born in Patrick County, Virginia, in 1863 to Hardin and Nancy Reynolds. He attended Trinity College (later Duke University), and joined his brother, Richard J. Reynolds, in the tobacco business...
March 21: Happy Birthday! Frank Liipfert Horton
Frank Liipfert Horton was born in Winston-Salem in 1918. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he returned to Winston-Salem and he and his mother, Theo Taliaferro,...
March 20: Happy Birthday! William King Hoyt
William King Hoyt was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1889. He graduated from Swarthmore College and was employed by the Trenton, New Jersey, Times from mid-1912 to 1924. During that time he...
March 19: Happy Birthday! Carl Jethro Quate
Carl Jethro Quate was born in Forsyth County to Ed and Laura Branson Quate in 1902. He manufactured brick with his father for many years, at Quate and Sons, Inc. He also worked for...