The Way We Were: Mary Virginia Skinner Jones
Mary Virginia Skinner Jones came into the world at St. Vincent’s Hospital in May 1928 as the youngest child and only girl of Chester and Virginia Skinner, natives of Georgetown, South Carolina. Four years later, her father founded Meadowbrook Farms Dairy in San Jose Forest. The family home sat adjacent to the dairy, and so […]
The Way We Were: Martha “Molly” Holmes King
Martha “Molly” Holmes King arrived in Jacksonville at nine years of age in February 1941 from her birthplace in Birmingham, Alabama. “Now, I’m 91 and three fourths,” she said, and she lives in the same house that she had grown up in on Harvard Avenue in Ortega. Molly was raised an only child; two siblings […]
The Way We Were: Hooshang Harvesf, Ph.D.
Dr. Hooshang Harvesf came to the United States from Persia as a young, educated man in the early 1960s but took his schooling even further by completing the Ph.D. program in economics at The University of California, Berkeley. His father had always stressed this advice: “Get an education first. Then, do whatever it is that […]
ElderSource recognizes award winners during annual “A Night with the Stars” event
It was an evening of celebrations and recognitions at “A Night with the Stars” — ElderSource’s annual event celebrating “individuals and organizations that work with seniors and their caregivers as well as other outstanding senior advocates.” ElderSource is a Jacksonville organization devoted to empowering “people to live and age with independence and dignity in their […]
The Way We Were: Cookie Davis
Carranna Shirley Faling was quite a long name for such a cute little girl. It was a mouthful for a mother to say, too. The year was 1941, when Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead were popular comic strip characters. They had a daughter named Cookie. So, Cookie Faling it is, her mother had decided. Since there […]
Community comes together to help WWII vet achieve a goal
San Marco resident Rufus McClure was a paratrooper who served during WWII in a special division that was trained to invade Japan. “I was in Europe when President Harry Truman gave the orders to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After that, the war was over. Instead of getting shipped to Japan to possibly […]
The Way We Were: Marlene Goodwin
Marlene Goodwin is a Jacksonville native, as were her father and his parents. She entered the world in 1936 at St. Vincent’s Hospital. She was the youngest of seven children and had a sister 18 years her senior who served as a second mom. Growing up on Colonial Avenue in Lakeshore, Marlene enjoyed playing hopscotch […]
The Way We Were: Elizabeth “Betty” Poag Reed
Elizabeth Poag, now Betty Reed, knows Jacksonville from the top down: she was born in 1944 at the second location of St. Luke’s Hospital on the corner of Boulevard and 8th Streets, grew up in Northside, spent time in Arlington and Southside, and has lived in the Mandarin area for the last 40 years. Growing […]
