Interesting article about the lady from Beaumont and the war effort. Wonder whatever became of her. nancie o <drayton5@earthlink.net> wrote: Feb.16, 1945. MRS. CORRIE DILLARD, PROMINENT GREENVILLE COUNTY WOMAN DIES Greer, Feb. 16.- MRS. CORRIE WILLIMON DILLARD, 70, died this morning at her residence, the Dillard orchards, following an illness of 2 weeks. MRS. DILLARD was the widow of the late W.L. DILLARD and was a member of a prominent family, being a daughter of the late ROBERT CHARLES WILLIMON and MARTHA ASHMORE WILLIMON. She was born and reared in lower Greenville County but had been a resident of Greer for 34 years and was a member of Memorial Methodist Church. She is survived by 2 daughters, MRS. RAYMOND FLYNN of Union and MRS. LULA RHEM of Greer; 3 sons, ROBERT DILLARD, of Columbia, PALMER DILLARD of Greer and CAPT. WALTER DILLARD of the U.S. Army overseas; 3 brothers, W.H. and W.E. WILLIMON of Greenville and CLIFTON WILLIMON of Hendersonville' 3 sisters, MRS. LULA HENDRIX and MRS.ALVIN FOSTER of Greenville and MRS. ANNIE LANGE of Oakland, Calif. Seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday from the residence, conducted by her pastor, the REV. E.E. GLENN , assisted by the REV. F.T. McGILL. Interment will be in Fulton cemetery. Active pallbearers: ROBERT WILLIMON, ROBERT HENDRIX, KEITH LEONARD, LEWIS VAUGHAN, ROBERT SMITH, and GRADY DILLARD. ----------------------------- Feb. 22, 1945 Chesnee, Feb. 22- Funeral services for JOHN B. GREEN, 60, who died at his home , Tryon, rt.1, Tuesday night after a lingering illness, were to be held at the Peniel Baptist Church this afternoon by the REV. BROADUS BELUE, assisted by the REV. W.M. WILLIS. Active pallbearers were to be A.P. WILLIAMS, LEE WAGONER, FRANK WALKER, HAROLD EDWARDS, MINCH BOWYER and BARON TONEY. He is survived by his wife, MRS. MILLIE McKINNEY GREEN; one brother, W.B. GREEN of Detroit, Mich., and one sister, MRS. OSIE LOVEN of Campobello. ----------------------------- BEAUMONT GIRL TO BE HEARD ON RADIO NETWORK MISS MARY LEIGH of Spartanburg left yesterday to represent the Beaumont Manufacturing company on Alma Kitchell's special wollen program Friday , over the Blue network. Beaumont was asked to send a representative to tell of the use of cotton duck in war as the mill was the first cotton textile plant in the nation that went 100 percent duck manufacture for the army-navy before Pearl Harbor. Since Pearl Harbor the mill has made more than 80,000 yards of duck and makes more duck for shelter tents than any other plant in the nation. MISS LEIGH was chosen to represent Beaumont because she has worked the equivalent of a full 8 hour day every day since Pearl Harbor and has worked every Sunday. She is a spinner and has been employed for 10 years, and takes great pride in seeing that her yarn which goes to make duck for the army and navy is the best that can be spun. ---------------------------- nancie o. Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.