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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
7
A Mount Airy Red Cross report details hours spent folding surgical dressings to aid soldiers and Allies. The appeal asks whether available dressings suffice or if reusing old ones wastes critical time while wounded men wait.
A roster of residents and neighbors includes Gloria Bingman Barbara Folger Barbara Green Billie Hennis Hallie Winesette Betty Jean Collins Patty Lou Foy Patsy Brannock Mildred Pruitt Rachel Hall Dot Booker Judy Davis Helen Finch Bobby Jones Barbara O Neal Anne Simmons Betsy Sparger Mary K Tickle Anne Toler Dorothy Yokley Marjorie Yokley Jane Graves Jean Rule Carolyn Boyles Ida Helen Hatcher Mary Jean Lewis Betty Rose Peggy Utt Frances Fowler.
Mrs Mary Pansy Goldsmith 35 wife of Cpl Edwin Goldsmith overseas died at Forsyth Tubercular Hospital Winston Salem after two years illness. Funeral from Vogler Chapel Winston Salem with Rev B A Culp officiating, burial Salem Cemetery. Attendees included A Goldsmith and Mrs Reid from Washington D C and others.
Two readers submit dilemmas about hosting divorced friends and correcting a grown son’s grammar. Louisa suggests handling couples separately if the divorce was bitter and advises gentle correction of the son to prevent future criticism by others.
The weekly hospital list records surgical and medical patients across Hillsville Dobson Pilot Mountain Cana Pinnacle and nearby towns. Entries include names such as Pearl Hutt Eloise Dobson Roxie Dawson Opal Lynch and Etta Simmons with several births noted for Randall Owens Pinnacle and a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Owens.
A grouped discharge record lists Mrs. Harry Byrd on June 5 and George Bryant of Ararat on June 4. It names numerous individuals discharged including A. B. E. Doby Reid Flippen Lillian Ayers Nora Tolbert Newman Alva Wright Elizabeth Powell Flora Hayzee Roy Wall James Frye Jr Lela Chilton Messie Ethel Westmoreland Betha Craughn Gray Hennis William White Irene Simmons Lena Poe Nita Jernigan Donald Lee Martin Patsy Simmons Kate Going Anna Moorefield Alma Wilson and others.
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