Dominion Diaries

Dominion Diaries Spotlight: Douglas Terry

Douglas Lee Terry was born in 1932 to Bud and Estelle Terry in Bristol, Virginia. As the oldest of five children, Doug was often found helping his grandparents, Doc and Myrtle, with the family potato chip business, Terry’s Potato Chips. As the business was started during the Great Depression and struggled because of it, the […]

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Dominion Diaries Spotlight: Rosemary Farmer

Rosemary Thomas Farmer was born in Fort Worth, Texas on November 3, 1940 but was raised in Massachusetts and Maine. Rosemary met and married her husband of 65 years, Melvin, while he was a student of Chemistry at Harvard University. Melvin later received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1964 from the University of Illinois.

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Dominion’s Centenarians: Frankie Louise Grace Ditto

Frankie Ditto turns 100 at Dominion of Hixson Frances Louise Grace Ditto, known to everyone as Frankie, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on January 25, 1924. Frankie’s father worked for the railroad system, taking their family from Pennsylvania to West Virginia and eventually to Louisville, Kentucky. Frankie fondly remembers visiting with family at the Grace

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