Nannie Ellen Gadd was alone in the Beckley Newspaper Corp.'s wire room on Dec. 7, 1941, and was the first to read the news that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. In a 1971 interview, she said that was her strongest memory of working at the Post-Herald.
Nannie Ellen was born on March 28, 1911, in Hinton, Summers County, W.Va., a daughter of Daniel Pierce (D.P.) Gadd and Maude Mae Meadows Gadd. In 1942, she married Verne Lemon Tucker, son of Edgar E. Tucker and Nancy Magdalene Lemon Tucker.
Both her father Daniel and father-in-law Edgar had been editors of the Raleigh Herald, a forerunner of the Post-Herald. A 1917 news item in the Raleigh Herald said D.P. Gadd had previously "conducted a printing establishment [in Hinton] and was later connected with the Independent-Herald" in Summers County.
Her husband Verne worked as a newspaper route carrier before beginning a career with the U.S. Postal Service.
Nannie Ellen was a reporter at the Post-Herald for seven years.
In 1936 when the newspaper moved to a new building, there was a "house-warming" edition. It included a profile of Nannie Ellen with the headline "Writer is Poet." It says she was educated in Hinton and Beckley schools and, after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, she attended Marshall College (now Marshall University) in Huntington, W.Va. She taught school and then went to work for the Post-Herald.
"For almost a year now she has been pounding out the society news for the Post-Herald, with one secret thought in mind, to be some day an author of women's short stories and novels.
"Probably her chief hobby is collecting novelties and pictures.
"Miss Gadd always has been fond of reading and even now she rests from a long day's work with a book in her hand…"
The article also says some of her poems were published in the paper and she makes "appearances on programs as a speaker or reader, as she has been active in dramatic work since girlhood."
In the 1971 article, it says she is working as a secretary at the First Christian Church in Beckley and plans to continue that work until the fall. After retirement, she and her husband will spend their winters in "the South." They had two grown children, Patrick and Martha.
Her husband died in 1981 and she died in 1985. They are buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.
Sources: Beckley Post-Herald Staff Members Have Varied Hobbies, Post-Herald, House-Warming Edition, Section Two, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1936, Page 2; Golf, Fishing, Gardening, Poetry To Fill Couple's Retirement Days, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, Monday, June 28, 1971, Page 3; Moves to Beckley [D.P. Gadd], The Register Herald, Friday, Aug. 18, 1916, Page 5; West Virginia Vital Research Records, marriage record, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_mcdetail.aspx?Id=11514380; Find A Grave 124398191 and 124398247.
Nannie Ellen was born on March 28, 1911, in Hinton, Summers County, W.Va., a daughter of Daniel Pierce (D.P.) Gadd and Maude Mae Meadows Gadd. In 1942, she married Verne Lemon Tucker, son of Edgar E. Tucker and Nancy Magdalene Lemon Tucker.
Both her father Daniel and father-in-law Edgar had been editors of the Raleigh Herald, a forerunner of the Post-Herald. A 1917 news item in the Raleigh Herald said D.P. Gadd had previously "conducted a printing establishment [in Hinton] and was later connected with the Independent-Herald" in Summers County.
Her husband Verne worked as a newspaper route carrier before beginning a career with the U.S. Postal Service.
Nannie Ellen was a reporter at the Post-Herald for seven years.
In 1936 when the newspaper moved to a new building, there was a "house-warming" edition. It included a profile of Nannie Ellen with the headline "Writer is Poet." It says she was educated in Hinton and Beckley schools and, after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, she attended Marshall College (now Marshall University) in Huntington, W.Va. She taught school and then went to work for the Post-Herald.
"For almost a year now she has been pounding out the society news for the Post-Herald, with one secret thought in mind, to be some day an author of women's short stories and novels.
"Probably her chief hobby is collecting novelties and pictures.
"Miss Gadd always has been fond of reading and even now she rests from a long day's work with a book in her hand…"
The article also says some of her poems were published in the paper and she makes "appearances on programs as a speaker or reader, as she has been active in dramatic work since girlhood."
In the 1971 article, it says she is working as a secretary at the First Christian Church in Beckley and plans to continue that work until the fall. After retirement, she and her husband will spend their winters in "the South." They had two grown children, Patrick and Martha.
Her husband died in 1981 and she died in 1985. They are buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.
Sources: Beckley Post-Herald Staff Members Have Varied Hobbies, Post-Herald, House-Warming Edition, Section Two, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1936, Page 2; Golf, Fishing, Gardening, Poetry To Fill Couple's Retirement Days, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, Monday, June 28, 1971, Page 3; Moves to Beckley [D.P. Gadd], The Register Herald, Friday, Aug. 18, 1916, Page 5; West Virginia Vital Research Records, marriage record, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_mcdetail.aspx?Id=11514380; Find A Grave 124398191 and 124398247.
Nannie Ellen Gadd was alone in the Beckley Newspaper Corp.'s wire room on Dec. 7, 1941, and was the first to read the news that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. In a 1971 interview, she said that was her strongest memory of working at the Post-Herald.
Nannie Ellen was born on March 28, 1911, in Hinton, Summers County, W.Va., a daughter of Daniel Pierce (D.P.) Gadd and Maude Mae Meadows Gadd. In 1942, she married Verne Lemon Tucker, son of Edgar E. Tucker and Nancy Magdalene Lemon Tucker.
Both her father Daniel and father-in-law Edgar had been editors of the Raleigh Herald, a forerunner of the Post-Herald. A 1917 news item in the Raleigh Herald said D.P. Gadd had previously "conducted a printing establishment [in Hinton] and was later connected with the Independent-Herald" in Summers County.
Her husband Verne worked as a newspaper route carrier before beginning a career with the U.S. Postal Service.
Nannie Ellen was a reporter at the Post-Herald for seven years.
In 1936 when the newspaper moved to a new building, there was a "house-warming" edition. It included a profile of Nannie Ellen with the headline "Writer is Poet." It says she was educated in Hinton and Beckley schools and, after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, she attended Marshall College (now Marshall University) in Huntington, W.Va. She taught school and then went to work for the Post-Herald.
"For almost a year now she has been pounding out the society news for the Post-Herald, with one secret thought in mind, to be some day an author of women's short stories and novels.
"Probably her chief hobby is collecting novelties and pictures.
"Miss Gadd always has been fond of reading and even now she rests from a long day's work with a book in her hand…"
The article also says some of her poems were published in the paper and she makes "appearances on programs as a speaker or reader, as she has been active in dramatic work since girlhood."
In the 1971 article, it says she is working as a secretary at the First Christian Church in Beckley and plans to continue that work until the fall. After retirement, she and her husband will spend their winters in "the South." They had two grown children, Patrick and Martha.
Her husband died in 1981 and she died in 1985. They are buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.
Sources: Beckley Post-Herald Staff Members Have Varied Hobbies, Post-Herald, House-Warming Edition, Section Two, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1936, Page 2; Golf, Fishing, Gardening, Poetry To Fill Couple's Retirement Days, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, Monday, June 28, 1971, Page 3; Moves to Beckley [D.P. Gadd], The Register Herald, Friday, Aug. 18, 1916, Page 5; West Virginia Vital Research Records, marriage record, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_mcdetail.aspx?Id=11514380; Find A Grave 124398191 and 124398247.
Nannie Ellen was born on March 28, 1911, in Hinton, Summers County, W.Va., a daughter of Daniel Pierce (D.P.) Gadd and Maude Mae Meadows Gadd. In 1942, she married Verne Lemon Tucker, son of Edgar E. Tucker and Nancy Magdalene Lemon Tucker.
Both her father Daniel and father-in-law Edgar had been editors of the Raleigh Herald, a forerunner of the Post-Herald. A 1917 news item in the Raleigh Herald said D.P. Gadd had previously "conducted a printing establishment [in Hinton] and was later connected with the Independent-Herald" in Summers County.
Her husband Verne worked as a newspaper route carrier before beginning a career with the U.S. Postal Service.
Nannie Ellen was a reporter at the Post-Herald for seven years.
In 1936 when the newspaper moved to a new building, there was a "house-warming" edition. It included a profile of Nannie Ellen with the headline "Writer is Poet." It says she was educated in Hinton and Beckley schools and, after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, she attended Marshall College (now Marshall University) in Huntington, W.Va. She taught school and then went to work for the Post-Herald.
"For almost a year now she has been pounding out the society news for the Post-Herald, with one secret thought in mind, to be some day an author of women's short stories and novels.
"Probably her chief hobby is collecting novelties and pictures.
"Miss Gadd always has been fond of reading and even now she rests from a long day's work with a book in her hand…"
The article also says some of her poems were published in the paper and she makes "appearances on programs as a speaker or reader, as she has been active in dramatic work since girlhood."
In the 1971 article, it says she is working as a secretary at the First Christian Church in Beckley and plans to continue that work until the fall. After retirement, she and her husband will spend their winters in "the South." They had two grown children, Patrick and Martha.
Her husband died in 1981 and she died in 1985. They are buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.
Sources: Beckley Post-Herald Staff Members Have Varied Hobbies, Post-Herald, House-Warming Edition, Section Two, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1936, Page 2; Golf, Fishing, Gardening, Poetry To Fill Couple's Retirement Days, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, Monday, June 28, 1971, Page 3; Moves to Beckley [D.P. Gadd], The Register Herald, Friday, Aug. 18, 1916, Page 5; West Virginia Vital Research Records, marriage record, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_mcdetail.aspx?Id=11514380; Find A Grave 124398191 and 124398247.
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