Mr. Overton, a resident of The Presbyterian Home, Sharon Towers, Charlotte, died December 22, 2003 at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte.
He was born September 22, 1912 at Mount Gilead, North Carolina, son of E. Monroe and Hattie Hutchinson Overton. Educated in the Ellerbe, NC, schools and North Carolina State University, he represented Union Circulation Company of New York, a distributor of books, magazines, and textbooks to many foreign countries. Mr. Overton opened the markets in Cuba, Canada, Colombia, Panama Canal Zone, and Costa Rica, arriving in Manila, Philippines in September 1932. There he established a wholesale company that distributed American books to the Far East, extending to the Netherlands, East Indies and into India. In Manila, he met Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and Ernest Hemmingway. He accompanied Hemmingway to the islands to visit some of the indigenous tribes that Hemmingway was interested in.
When the Japanese captured the Americans in Manila on January 4, 1942, Mr. Overton was held as prisoner of war at Santo Tomas and Los Banos camps where the Americans were tortured and deprived of food until freed by General MacArthur's American troops in March 1945.
After the war, Mr. Overton worked as a publicist in New York and then founded the Executives Clubs which featured eminent conservative speakers in many US cities.
He lived in Dallas, Texas after retirement until he moved to Charlotte.
He was married to the late Baroness Helene de Grandcourt of New York.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Grace Overton King of Charlotte and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by brothers, Bernard and Hill and a sister, Dorothy, of Charlotte.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 2003 at Sharon Memorial Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, NC. Memorials may be made to Residents' Assistance Fund, Sharon Towers, 5100 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC 28210
Published in the Charlotte Observer.
He was born September 22, 1912 at Mount Gilead, North Carolina, son of E. Monroe and Hattie Hutchinson Overton. Educated in the Ellerbe, NC, schools and North Carolina State University, he represented Union Circulation Company of New York, a distributor of books, magazines, and textbooks to many foreign countries. Mr. Overton opened the markets in Cuba, Canada, Colombia, Panama Canal Zone, and Costa Rica, arriving in Manila, Philippines in September 1932. There he established a wholesale company that distributed American books to the Far East, extending to the Netherlands, East Indies and into India. In Manila, he met Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and Ernest Hemmingway. He accompanied Hemmingway to the islands to visit some of the indigenous tribes that Hemmingway was interested in.
When the Japanese captured the Americans in Manila on January 4, 1942, Mr. Overton was held as prisoner of war at Santo Tomas and Los Banos camps where the Americans were tortured and deprived of food until freed by General MacArthur's American troops in March 1945.
After the war, Mr. Overton worked as a publicist in New York and then founded the Executives Clubs which featured eminent conservative speakers in many US cities.
He lived in Dallas, Texas after retirement until he moved to Charlotte.
He was married to the late Baroness Helene de Grandcourt of New York.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Grace Overton King of Charlotte and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by brothers, Bernard and Hill and a sister, Dorothy, of Charlotte.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 2003 at Sharon Memorial Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, NC. Memorials may be made to Residents' Assistance Fund, Sharon Towers, 5100 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC 28210
Published in the Charlotte Observer.
Mr. Overton, a resident of The Presbyterian Home, Sharon Towers, Charlotte, died December 22, 2003 at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte.
He was born September 22, 1912 at Mount Gilead, North Carolina, son of E. Monroe and Hattie Hutchinson Overton. Educated in the Ellerbe, NC, schools and North Carolina State University, he represented Union Circulation Company of New York, a distributor of books, magazines, and textbooks to many foreign countries. Mr. Overton opened the markets in Cuba, Canada, Colombia, Panama Canal Zone, and Costa Rica, arriving in Manila, Philippines in September 1932. There he established a wholesale company that distributed American books to the Far East, extending to the Netherlands, East Indies and into India. In Manila, he met Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and Ernest Hemmingway. He accompanied Hemmingway to the islands to visit some of the indigenous tribes that Hemmingway was interested in.
When the Japanese captured the Americans in Manila on January 4, 1942, Mr. Overton was held as prisoner of war at Santo Tomas and Los Banos camps where the Americans were tortured and deprived of food until freed by General MacArthur's American troops in March 1945.
After the war, Mr. Overton worked as a publicist in New York and then founded the Executives Clubs which featured eminent conservative speakers in many US cities.
He lived in Dallas, Texas after retirement until he moved to Charlotte.
He was married to the late Baroness Helene de Grandcourt of New York.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Grace Overton King of Charlotte and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by brothers, Bernard and Hill and a sister, Dorothy, of Charlotte.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 2003 at Sharon Memorial Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, NC. Memorials may be made to Residents' Assistance Fund, Sharon Towers, 5100 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC 28210
Published in the Charlotte Observer.
He was born September 22, 1912 at Mount Gilead, North Carolina, son of E. Monroe and Hattie Hutchinson Overton. Educated in the Ellerbe, NC, schools and North Carolina State University, he represented Union Circulation Company of New York, a distributor of books, magazines, and textbooks to many foreign countries. Mr. Overton opened the markets in Cuba, Canada, Colombia, Panama Canal Zone, and Costa Rica, arriving in Manila, Philippines in September 1932. There he established a wholesale company that distributed American books to the Far East, extending to the Netherlands, East Indies and into India. In Manila, he met Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and Ernest Hemmingway. He accompanied Hemmingway to the islands to visit some of the indigenous tribes that Hemmingway was interested in.
When the Japanese captured the Americans in Manila on January 4, 1942, Mr. Overton was held as prisoner of war at Santo Tomas and Los Banos camps where the Americans were tortured and deprived of food until freed by General MacArthur's American troops in March 1945.
After the war, Mr. Overton worked as a publicist in New York and then founded the Executives Clubs which featured eminent conservative speakers in many US cities.
He lived in Dallas, Texas after retirement until he moved to Charlotte.
He was married to the late Baroness Helene de Grandcourt of New York.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Grace Overton King of Charlotte and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by brothers, Bernard and Hill and a sister, Dorothy, of Charlotte.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 2003 at Sharon Memorial Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, NC. Memorials may be made to Residents' Assistance Fund, Sharon Towers, 5100 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC 28210
Published in the Charlotte Observer.
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