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Gilmore served in the United States Navy during World War II. He served as mayor of Southern Pines, North Carolina and on the Southern Pines Town Board from 1952 to 1957. [3] [4] [5] Gilmore owned a travel agency and was the president of the Travel Council of North Carolina. He received two advanced degrees in geography. [6]
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Roughly a year after the murder of Delores Lynch, on May 18, 1985, Susie Newsom’s father Bob, her mother Florence, and her grandmother Hattie were all shot to death in their home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Before his murder, Bob had agreed to testify in favor of Tom Lynch during an upcoming custody hearing.
Roxane Gilmore, a teacher and professor who served as first lady of Virginia during her husband Jim Gilmore's term as governor from 1998 to 2002, died Wednesday. The former governor announced his ...
Joe Flaherty Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images Joe Flaherty, best known for his work on Freaks and Geeks and SCTV, has died at 82. Flaherty’s death was announced Monday, April 1, by his One ...
Pro golfer Grayson Murray’s family has confirmed he died by suicide after news of his death shocked the sports community over the weekend. Murray, a two-time PGA Tour winner, died Saturday, the ...
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, also known as Minotti-Gilmore House or Harden and Harden Funeral Home, is a historic home and national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, Classical Revival brick detached residential dwelling built by 1900 on an approximately one-half acre lot in a business area of ...
The show was known at various times as "Whistle Stop," "Fred Kirby's Little Rascals," "Three-Ring Circus" and "Kirby's Corral." Giving the "hi-sign" to his young fans, Kirby was a fixture for many years at the western-themed park Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Even though he died in 1996, his birthday is still honored by ...