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Gene Staton preservationist banker dies at 80
Gene Staton a builder and banker died February 17 at Brookland at age 80 He was born in 1934 in Hendersonville and educated at UNC Asheville and the University of Georgia He worked with C E Staton General Contractor later became a banker and devotedly preserved local history serving on multiple boards and volunteering with St John in the Wilderness and Historic Flat Rock Inc He died after a battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and his family highlighted his lifelong commitment to history and community.
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Christopher Eugene
Gene” Staton Jr
Brookland
Hendersonville
Christopher Eugene Staton Sr
Helen McGraw Staton
University of Georgia
Chi Phi
University of North Carolina At
Asheville
Phi Alpha Theta
Deborah Elinor Holmes
St. John In the Wilderness
Staton
C.E
Kenmure
Champion Hills
Berkeley
G.E
Duke
Spartanburg Highway
Winston- Salem
First Federal Bank
First Citizens Bank
John F. McGraw
Jamie Lee Gurley
Statons
Charleston
Edmund Molyneux
London
Debbie Staton
Flat Rock
Henderson County Public Library
Pardee Memorial Hospital
Historic Flat Rock Inc
Dispute Settlement Center