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Obituary – Johnson City Press-Chronicle, Johnson City, Tennessee; Tuesday, 8 FEB 1983, page 2:

JOHN H. JENNINGS

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- John H. Jennings, 65, died Saturday in a Pensacola hospital.

Mr. Jennings was born in Johnson City, Tenn., and had been a resident of Pensacola for 33 years.

He was a member of the Methodist faith church and a retired employee of the St. Regis Paper Co.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret R. Jennings, Pensacola; one daughter, Elizabeth W. Ammons, Pensacola (sic); one son, Ralph Wickersham, Jacksonville, Fla.; his mother, Myrtle Jennings, Johnson City; one brother, Thomas Jennings, Johnson City; three nephews; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in Pensacola.

Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel was in charge.

NOTE: Elizabeth (Wickersham) Ammons and Ralph Wickersham were Margaret’s children from her first marriage to Ralph C. Wickersham, who died in 1940.

Obituary – Johnson City Press, Johnson City, Tennessee; Thursday, 6 APR 1995 (Newspapers.com):

MRS. MARGARET K. JENNINGS

Mrs. Margaret Kyker Jennings, 65, 921 Hillcrest Drive, died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at Johnson City Medical Center Hospital following a brief illness.

She was a Newport native and had lived in Johnson City since 1947. Mrs. Jennings was a daughter of the late Alonzo and Elizabeth Allen Kyker.

She attended East Tennessee State College, where she was homecoming queen in 1947.

Mrs. Jennings was a member of Clark Street Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by one brother and one half brother.

Survivors include her husband Charles “Tom” Jennings; two sons, Charles Thomas Jennings, Jr., Gray, and John Allen Jennings, Johnson City; one daughter, Julie Diana Kilby, Knoxville; and three grandsons, Matthew Jennings, Lucas Jennings and Thomas Jennings, all of Gray.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Morris-Baker (282-1521.)

Obituary -- Star-Tribune, Chatham, Virginia; Friday, 21 DEC 2007:

David Clarke Boy Jr.

APPLETON, Wisc. - David Clarke Boy Jr., of Appleton, Wis., and Danville, passed away in Appleton, Wis., with his children at his side.

Mr. Boy was the son of the late Elizabeth Kathleen Jennings Boy and David Clark Boy Sr.

He was born in Atlanta, Ga., and lived all over the east coast growing up.

He was a graduate of Augusta Military Academy, Staunton, The Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Pittsburgh School of Management at the University of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Boy was commissioned as a First Lieutenant upon graduation from Georgia Tech, served in World War II, and was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Air Corps.

Mr. Boy came to Danville as part of the Dan River Mills Executive Management Training Program and spent 34 years with the company. He served in many different capacities within the company. Two of his most notable achievements were the placement of the Home of Dan River Fabrics sign and the organization and fruition of the National Tobacco and Textile Museum.

Mr. Boy was active in Rotary International for 49 years, and a Paul Harris Fellow, chairman of the United Fund, served on the boards of the American Red Cross, Danville Chapter, and the Danville Cancer Association and numerous other civic organizations.

Mr. Boy was a member of First Baptist Church for 60 years where he served as Sunday school teacher, deacon, chairman of the board and for 25 years welcomed new members and visitors at the door on Sunday mornings.

He was predeceased by Elva Vivian Knott, his wife of 41 years and mother of his children, brother, Howard, and granddaughter, Anne Howe Harper.

He is survived by his son, David C. Boy III, and his wife, Karla, of Cumming, Ga., his daughter, Diane Boy Harper, and her husband, Richard O. Harper Jr. of Appleton, Wisc., formerly of Danville, and four grandchildren, Meredith Diane Harper Kiesnowski and her husband, Dr. Brian Kiesnowski of Appleton, Wisc., R. Overton Harper III, and his wife, Dr. Amy V. Harper of Kernersville, N.C., Ruth Boy Lykins and her husband, Kevin, of Cumming, Ga., and grandson, David C. Boy IV, Esq., and his wife, Fabrienne Heath Boy of Alpharetta, Ga.

He is also survived by five great-grandchildren, Thomas, David and Caroline Kiesnowski, Adam Lykins and Hayden Harper. Mr. Boy is also survived by one brother, John B. Boy and his wife, Nancy, of La Belle, Fla. Mr. Boy's second wife, Hazel, resides in a South Carolina Nursing Home.

In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations be considered for the First Baptist Church Music Program, 871 Main Street, the Danville Cancer Association, 2323 Riverside Drive, or your favorite charity.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held in the Heritage Room at First Baptist Church, by the Rev. Joe Northen, on Saturday, Dec. 22, at 11 a.m. followed by a visitation reception with the family.

Townes Funeral Home, 215 West Main Street, Danville, is in charge of the arrangements.

NOTE: (per Tracy DeVault):

In the 1947-48 & 1950 Danville City Directories, David is shown as Director of the Dan River Mills Riverside Textile School. The following extraction from the National Registration of Historical Places describes the building that at one time housed the textile school.

5. Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills, Inc., Textile School. 1890s; 1920s; ca. 1980. Contributing building.

Two-and-a-half-story building of five-course American-bond brick construction built for mixed commercial use. The building was acquired by Dan River Inc. for use as a textile school and given a Classical Revival facade, probably in the 1920s. The facade is faced with stretcher-bond brickwork with stretcher-header courses every five courses, and it features Indiana limestone and cast-stone (concrete) accents such as panels with abstract patterns and covered urns and swags, copings, quoins, window-opening keystones, and a parapet with balusters, urns, and scroll buttresses. A cut-away southeast comer is supported by scrolled wrought iron brackets. The first story of the facade was bricked up about 1980 but it retains limestone piers. Other features of the building include 616 and 212 windows, segmental-arched window openings on the sides and back, stepped side parapets, and beaded matchboard doors and a modem steel loading dock canopy to the rear.

Behind (to the west) of the building extend parking lots in the location of former mill buildings and a buried section of the power canal (see inv. no. 9). A waterwheel, foundations, and other remains are likely buried here. On the south side of the building in the bend of Main Street is a ca. 1980 park with plantings of trees and shrubs, brick walks, concrete benches, and a flag pole (the park is located outside the district; it apparently lies over a section of buried power canal).

A foundation belonging to a building demolished before 1877 occupied the site in 1886. The present building first appears on the 1899 Sanborn map with a carriage repository and a dry goods and grocery store as ground-floor tenants. The National Biscuit Co. occupied part of the building in 1910, and by 1920 the entire building was occupied by a hardware store. In the 1930s the building was used as the Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills, Inc., Textile School, a use that explains the Classical Revival upgrade of the front facade to coordinate with surrounding mill-owned buildings (Sanborn maps).