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Grave of Kemmons Wilson (Holiday Inn founder) He was born in Osceola, Arkansas, the only child of Kemmons and Ruby "Doll" Wilson. His father was an insurance salesman who died when Kemmons was nine months old. Shortly thereafter, his mother, Doll, moved the two to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was raised solely by his mother.
Kemmons Wilson, founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels; Clergy. Joshua Young, D.D. (1823–1904), Unitarian minister of national renown, abolitionist;
Wilson World Hotels was a small chain of hotels that catered to travelling business people and families. The chain was founded in 1984 by Kemmons Wilson , who was also the founder of the successful Holiday Inn hotel chain.
Kemmons Wilson, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, was inspired to build a motel after being disappointed by the poor quality of roadside accommodations during a family road trip to Washington, D.C. [4] During the construction, the name "Holiday Inn" was coined by Wilson's architect Eddie Bluestein as a joking reference to the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn.
Joyce and Roy's Italian wedding was surrounded by loved ones, red wine — and ketchup. Set in the rolling hills of Tuscany, the two tied the knot on June 7 in an intimate, tomato-inspired ...
It's official: Rebel Wilson and her partner, Ramona Agruma, are now married! The Pitch Perfect actress, 44, married Agruma, 40, in an intimate ceremony at Hotel Cala di Volpe in Sardinia, Italy ...
Rebel Wilson and Ramona Agruma had a wedding to remember!. The pair tied the knot on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the ultra-exclusive hotel Cala di Volpe in Porto Cervo in Sardinia, Italy, surrounded by ...
Memphis entrepreneur Kemmons Wilson and other well-known Memphis names resided there. After World War II , the neighborhood gradually declined until it began to be gentrified in the 1970s and after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.