“The Closer” | A Marshall Rauch Story
Marshall Rauch, 101, recounts his days playing for legendary Duke basketball coach, Eddie Cameron in…
John Philip Weisenhorn
John Philip Weisenhorn was born August 11, 1933 in Quincy Illinois. John was the youngest of six chi…
Jerry David Madden
Jerry David Madden was born on July 23, 1933 in Knoxville Tennessee. The son of working class parent…
Gladys “Lorraine” Phelps
Gladys Lorraine Phelps, 90, was born on November 10, 1932 at her home in Elkton, Virginia. At an ear…
John William “Bill” McGuinn, Jr.
John William “Bill” McGuinn, Jr., (91) born March 23, 1932 in High Point, North Carolina. Bill and h…
Jerry Dodgen
Jerry Dodgen, born May 19th 1934, grew up in the shadow of Loray Mill (Gastonia, North Carolina) jus…
Dorothy Duffy
Dorothy Duffy is a first generation American of Italian immigrant parents, Mariano and Teresa Minuto…
Dr. Bobbie Haynes Rowland
Dr. Bobbie Haynes Rowland was born May 29, 1929, is a retired educator, having spent her enti…
Ernest Robert Warren
Ernest Robert Warren was born in Gastonia, NC on December 2, 1885. He attended the U…
Isaac Harold Storey
Issac Harold Storey, born September 21, 1922 in Crystal Springs, Georgia is married to Rena Mebane S…
Rena Mebane Storey
Rena Mebane Storey, born February 16, 1926 in Rome Georgia is married to Issac Harold Storey (Click …
Lewington (Lew) S. Ponder
Lewington S. Ponder was born July, 5th 1921 in Syracuse New York. He is the son of Elbert and Alice…
Jerrold Pearl Postle
Jerry Postle was born January 27th, 1927 on the hilltop in Columbus, Ohio. He was married to his swe…
Al L. Stowe
Al L. Stowe, a native of Gaston County, N. C. was born July 14, 1921. He was he middle child of fiv…
Gwin Barnwell Dalton
Gwin Barnwell Dalton, 94, was born October 28, 1924 in Greenwood, Mississippi. Mrs. Dalton was marr…
Edwin Morrow Ellington
Ed Ellington was born in Morgan County, Kentucky on March 6, 1921, the seventh of eight children. W…
Rose Bowden
Rose Bisanar Bowden was born on June 17, 1921 in the small town of Machpelah, in Lincoln County, N.C…
DeNorma “DeDe” Gunter
DeNorma Smith Gunter, known to family and friends as DeDe, was born in Clover, S.C. on December 16, …
John B. Neal
John Neal was born on March 5th, 1926 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He is the seventh of ei…
Conrad Norwood Carter
Conrad Carter was born October 23, 1921 in Winston Salem, NC. He was married to the late Barbara L.…
Ruby Blackburn Lambert
Ruby Blackburn Lambert was born October 14, 1920 in Lambsburg, Virginia. She was married to the late…
Jean Marie Torrence
Jean Marie Torrence was born in Gaston County on May 11, 1925. She is the oldest child of Ch…
Elizabeth “Betty” McGee Cookson
Elizabeth McGee Cookson (Betty) was born Dec. 8 1922 in Sacramento CA. She married the late Robert …
Dr. George Rolfe Miller
Dr. George Rolfe Miler was born September 30, 1920 in Albion, New York. He was married for over six…
Jule Christian Spach
Jule Spach, born December 21, 1923 in Winston-Salem, N.C. and married for 68 years to Nancy Clendeni…
Harry & Ruby Bryant
Harry Bryant, born March 15, 1921 and Ruby Bryant, born October 2, 1922 were married January 14, 19…
Ruby Jenkins Bookout
Ruby Jenkins Bookout was born on August 20, 1922 in Gaston County, NC. She is the eighth of twelve …
Charles Sloan Stribling
Charles Sloan Stribling Born July 18, 1924 in Habersham GA Father of two children, Catherine and Ch…
Darrell “Bill” Brown Williams
Bill interviewed our founder Rob Sumner for the Gaston Gazette this week (click here). We turned the…
Milum Owens, Jr. (M.O.)
M.O. as he is known, was born in Aiken Co. SC. In the early years, his father was a school master a…
Plato “Tete” Pearson, Jr.
Plato “Tete” Pearson, Jr. was born October 13, 1924 in Gastonia, NC. He married Betty An…
Annie Lee Stancil
Annie Lee Stancil was born in Anson County, North Carolina on October 20, 1918. She was married to …
Julia Neal Sykes
Julia Neal Sykes was born on October 15, 1923 on a tenant farm in southern Mecklenburg County near t…
John Francis Essic
Francis Essic was born May 29, 1925 in Davie County, NC. He attended Appalachian State on a basketb…
Rebecca Rhyne
Rebecca Rhyne was born November 17, 1920 in Gaston County to Maude Jenkins Harrelson and Logan Clay …
Loyd Wytte Rose, Jr.
Loyd Rose was born Nov 15, 1924 in Gaston County. He lived all his life in Gaston County and marrie…
Robert Leo Allen
Robert Leo Allen was born August 26, 1921 in Pacolet Mills, South Carolina. Mr. Allen graduated fro…
William David Lawson, III
William (Bill) David Lawson, III was born October 30th, 1924 in Jackson, Mississippi. He has been m…
Lois H. Ramsey
“Lo” Ramsey was born November 23, 1920 in Long Branch, NJ and grew up in the suburbs of …
Mildred Jackson Sadler
Mildred Sadler was born August 29, 1924 on a ten acre farm in York County SC. She graduated from Sh…
Martha Caldwell
Martha Gunter Caldwell Date of Birth: April 25, 1917 Place of Birth: Hartsville, SC Married…
Marshall Rauch
Marshall Arthur Rauch Date of Birth: February 2, 1923 Place of Birth: Long Island, NY Married 64 y…
Alice Wood
Alice Ragan Wood DOB: May 30, 1923 Place of Birth: Gaston County, North Carolina Married…
Wilson Dunn
Arthur Wilson Dunn, Jr. DOB: May 11, 1924 Place of Birth: Gaston County, North Carolina Married to…
Mary Taylor
Mary Potter Taylor Date of Birth: September 26, 1921 Place of Birth: Pointville, NJ Married 66 yea…