List of Oral History Interviewees
The initials refer to the collections where each oral history is located. For instance, SACC refers to the South Asheville Colored Cemetery collection. Please refer to the Oral Histories Collections web page to link to the oral histories
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Susie Agnew : SACC
Juanita Aiken : VOA
Daintry Allison :SHRC
Matthew Alvarez: LGBTQ
Nancie Stafford Anders : RLSC
Leslie Anderson : VOA
Ernest “Andy” Andrews : WWII
Antiga: LGBTQ
Linda Apostopoulos : GRO
Murray Asch : UUCA
Nancy Asch: LGBTQ
Walter Ashe : RLSC
Walter Ashe : WWII
Luke Atkinson : VOA
Evelyn Austin : MAIN
J Wilson Ayers : SHRC
B
Danny B: LGBTQ
Matthew Bacoate Jr. : ALT
Dan Baechtold: LGBTQ
Jesse James Bailey : SHRC
Henry Baker : WWII
Ronald Lloyd Baker : SHRC
Ewart M Ball III : VOA
Herb Ball : UUCA
Louise Ball : SMC
Kathleen Balogh : VOA
Armitage Farrington Barber Sr. : SHRC
Reba Barnard : SHRC
Horst Baumgarten : SHOAH
John Baxter : SHRC
Barbara Bell: LGBTQ
Helen Benninga : JHWNC
John Berdie : WWII
John Best : VOA
Beulahland: LGBTQ
Jane Raoul Bingham : VOA
Rev. James H Black : SHRC
Lois Black : SMC
Irvin Blue : WWII
Julius Blum : SHOAH
Walter Boland : VOA
Annie Mae Bolden : SACC
Robert “Bob” Bolinder : WWII
Laura Boosinger: MHOTM
Kathy Bowman : VOA
Nathaniel L. Bowman : AUR
John (Jack) S Boyce : UUCA
Jean Boyd : AUR
Robert J and Louise Branson : VOA
Vernon Branson : WWII
Richard Braun : SHOAH
Rev. Benjamin F Brewer and Rosa Gordon Brewer : SACC
Doris Brewer : RLSC
Doris Brewer : VOA
John Bridges : ALT
John Bridges : VOA
Stanley A Briggs : VOA
Patricia Brinkley : VOA
Jessica Britton: LGBTQ
Charles Brown : VOA
David Brown : UNCAR
Edwin Brown : RLSC
Hugh C Brown Jr. : RLSC
Kay Brown : UUCA
Kenneth Brown : RLSC
Kitty (Love) Brown : A310
Willie Mae H. Brown : AUR
Shirley Browning : UNCAR
Robert Brunk : VOA
Charles Buchanan : VOA
John O “Buck” and Janet Buchanan : VOA
Robert and Barbara Buchanan : VOA
Lewis and Porge Buck : VOA
Carl Bufflap : WWII
Robert Bunn : VOA
Ethel Burgan : SACC
Robert Burgin : RLSC
Tom Byers : UNCAR
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Mary “Betty” Caccavale : WWII
Phillip John Caccavale : WWII
Cortina Jenelle Caldwell: LGBTQ
Thelma Caldwell : VOA
Wayne Caldwell ; RLSC
Margaret Calloway : VOA
Ruth Camblos : VOA
Jonah Campbell : GRO
Yelena Campbell : GRO
William Cannon : WWII
Robyn Cape : A310
Nicole Carpenter: MHOTM
Wayne Carringer : WWII
Anita White Carter : CDE
Garrett Carter : VOA
Marguerite Carter : VOA
Ted and Elizabeth Carter : VOA
Ralph Case : WWII
Henrietta Caylor : WWII
Mary Chakalas : GRO
Marvin Chambers : CDE
Gene Chatfield : WWII
Trevor Chavis : AUR
Harry Chepriss : SHRC
Ruth Chicurel : SHOAH
John and Anne Chiles : VOA
Mary Chiltoskey : SHRC
Zeke Christopolous: LGBTQ
Greta Ciesla : A310
Ellen Clarke : VOA
James and Elspeth Clarke : VOA
Billy Cline : VOA
Roseanna Coates: LGBTQ
Annie Reel Cogburn : VOA
George Coggins : VOA
Margo Coggins : VOA
Dan Coleman: LGBTQ
Shirley Cohen : ALT
Annette Coleman : CDE
Jessie Nell Coleman : ALT
Hendrik Colijn : SHOAH
Hazel Collington : VOA
Henry Colton : WWII
Marie Colton : ALT
Marie Colton : WWII
Marie and Henry Colton : VOA
Jerry Connor: LGBTQ
Irene Cook : SMC
Larry Cook : SMC
Yvonne Cook-Rliey: LGBTQ
John Cort : VOA
Frank Coxe : SHRC
Karen Cragnolin : VOA
Jane Craig : VOA
William Nielly Crawford III : WWII
Hugh Creasman : SHRC
John Frederick Cress : WWII
Marsha Crites : MAIN
Phillip Crouch : VOA
Kenneth Culbreth : WWII
Jeanne Cummings : VOA
Wardell and Sadie Cunningham : RLSC
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Robert Daugherty : VOA
Hyman Dave : ALT
Hyman Dave : JBWNC
Hyman Dave : VOA
Hardy Davidson :SHRC
Zani Davidson : AUR
J B Day : NASCAR
Marjorie McClean Dendy : SACC
Roger Derrough Jr. : VOA
Hilary Dirlam: MHOTM
Dr. Patricia Dodd : RLSC
Betty Dorb : JBWNC
Joyce Dorr : UNCAR
Larry Dorr : UNCAR
Margaret Dowdle : VOA
Catherine Dreesen : GRO
Mabel Duckett : SMC
William Duckett : SMC
William and Mary Duckworth : VOA
Joan Davis Dunton : WWII
Wilma Dykeman : RLSC
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Joe Eblen : ALT
Darcel Eddins : A310
Edmonds Family : VOA
Dr. El-Bayadi : MAIN
Bernard Elias : RLSC
Sarah Anne Eller : RLSC
Helga Robertson Ellis : WWII
Marie Ellis : RLSC
Margaret Rose Ensley : WWII
Wayne Erbsen: MHOTM
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Charles Feldman: JHWNC
Sidney Feldman : WWII
Rubin Feldstein : SHOAH
Barbara Ferguson : CDE
Faye Ferguson : SMC
James Ferguson : CDE
Heidi Finemore: LGBTQ
Leo Finklestein : JHWNC
Leo Finklestein : VOA
Sgt. Charles Fisher : VOA
Sylvia Fishman : JHWNC
Beale and Peggy Fletcher : VOA
Jeff Fobes : VOA
Kendra Ford : UUCA
Robert G. Fortune Jr. : SHRC
Denise Foster : VOA
Morris Fox : WWII
Ruth and Morris Fox : JBWNC
Carolyn Frady : UNCAR
Mary Lloyd Frank : VOA
Egon Friedlander : SHOAH
Margaret Fuller : VOA
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Tammy Taylor Gaddy : VOA
Henry Irven Gaines : SHRC
John Galbreath : WWII
Bill Gardenhight Sr. : ALT
John and Elizabeth Garland : VOA
Dorothy Gaston : SHRC
Mary Jean Gaunt : WWII
Ruth Gaynes : JBWNC
Andrew Gennett Jr. : WWII
Roy Gibbs : VOA
George Gibson : SACC
Doris Giezentanner : VOA
Rev. Bill Gillespie : SMC
Lawrence Gilliam : AUR
Mia Gilman : GRO
Stark Flaver Ginn Jr. : WWII
Sarah Scott Glasgow : YWCA
Betty Pollack Golden : JBWNC
Stan Golden : JBWNC
Sarah Goldstein : JHWNC
Gail Cornell Gomez : UUCA
Allie Gooding : UUCA
Laura Gordon : VOA
Ileana Grams-Moog : UNCAR
Barney Gray : WWII
James Green : AUR
Otis Green : RLSC
Bruce Greenawalt : UNCAR
Tyrone Greenlee : VOA
Ortez Devoe (Lacy) Griffin Jr. : VOA
Robert Griffin : VOA
William “Bill” Griffin : WWII
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Yvonne (Bonnie) Habel : UUCA
Lacy and Harriet Haith : VOA
Barbara Hall : WWII
Eleanor Hall : RLSC [2 interviews]
Lyons Alexander Hamblen : WWII
Jim and Virginia Hamilton : VOA
Kitty Hancock: LGBTQ
John and Alice Hancy : UUCA
James R Hannah : SMC
Forest Hardy : SACC
Eone Harger : VOA
Michael Harney: LGBTQ
Betty Christine (Chris) Slagle Harrell : VOA
Roy Harris : RLSC
James E. Harrison : AUR
Kelly Harrison: LGBTQ
Lucy Mae Harrison : VOA
Lou Harshaw : VOA
Lou Harshaw : WWII
Janet Harvey : UUCA
Harvey Haynes : VOA
Fred B Hearn : VOA
Beth Heinberg: LGBTQ
Max Heller : SHOAH
Trude Heller : SHOAH
John Hemphill : SACC
Fred Henderson : RLSC
Chester D Hensley : VOA
Lucy Herring : SHRC
Frank Hicks : WWII
Allene Sugg Highsmith : VOA
George Hilbert : WWII
Donald Hill : VOA
Sara Hill : ALT
Hildegard Hoffman : SHOAH
Tetyana Hollands : GRO
James (Shorty) and Edna Hollifield : VOA
Carrie Lucille Holmes : VOA
David Holt: MHOTM
John P Holt : SHRC
Lawrence D (Larry) Holt : VOA
Bonnell Roberts Honeycutt : VOA
Dorothy Snell Howald : SHRC
Dr. Thomas Howald : SHRC
James W (Red) Hoyle Sr. : VOA
Jack Vernon Hoyle : WWII
Jessie Huff : VOA
Olson Huff : RLSC
Wade Huff : VOA
Benjamin R Hunter : SHRC
Wanda Huntsman : RLSC
William and Dorothy Hussey : VOA
Mary Hyde : VOA
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Nanine Iddings : VOA
Fr. Demetrios Iliou : GRO
Lucius (Craggy) and Esta (Liz) Ingle : VOA
Eric Iovacchini : UNCAR
J
Dorothy Jackson : VOA
Elizabeth Jackson VOA
Albert Jacobson : JBWNC
Deborah James : UNCAR
Phil Jamison: MHOTM
Robert Janowitz : SHOAH
Forrest Jarrett : RLSC
Ned Jarrett : NASCAR
Richard Jarrett : SHRC
John E Jervis : SHRC
Richard L Jewitt : VOA
John Johnson : VOA
Junior Johnson : NASCAR
(Pinkney) Greer Johnson : VOA
William Johnson : WWII
William L. Johnson : AUR
Candler Jones : SMC
Gwynn Jones : SHRC
Mary Jones : SHRC
Minnie Jones : VOA
Ruby Jones : AUR
Joseph Joyner : RLSC
Dorothy Joynes : VOA
Dr. William S Justice : SHRC
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Jan Kahn : SHOAH
Morris and Leah Karpen : VOA
Joseph Katen : WWII
Maria Katsigianis : GRO
Robert Katz : JHWNC
Anna Keith : GRO
Fr. Onouphry Keith : GRO
Barbara Cassat Keleher :VOA
Michael Francis Keleher : VOA
Miriam Kell : JBWNC
Peter Kendrick: LGBTQ
Adelaide Key : ALT
Beulah King : WWII
Marie Halbert King : SHRC
Craig Kirkpatrick : WWII
Ray Kisiah : VOA
Anne Michlelove Kolodkin : JHWNC
Grace Kouns : VOA
Margaret Koutris : GRO
Walter Kreamer : WWII
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Martha June Lamb : WWII
Ron Lambe: LGBTQ
George Lamprinakos : WWII
Lucille Lamy : WWII
Bruce Larson : UUCA
Pat Laursen : YWCA
Betty Tenn Lawrence : VOA
Jesse Ledbetter : WWII
Harmon M Lee : VOA
Marion Leigon : WWII
Nancy and Frank Leppert : VOA
Ginger Lerner : JBWNC
Grover L Leslie : WWII
Stanley Levine : JHWNC
Isaac Jack Levy : JHWNC
Ralph Lewis : WWII
Susan Lewis : MAIN
Joseph Lichtenfels : JHWNC
Joe Lingerfelt Jr. : VOA
Carolyn Lipson-Walker : JHWNC
Frederick Littlejohn : WWII
Bernice Adams Lloyd : WWII
Don Locke : UNCAR
Marjorie Lockwood : VOA
Clifford Longcoy : WWII
Anthony (Tony) Lord : SHRC
Anthony (Tony) Lord : VOA
Ruth Lowenburg : JHWNC
Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s Daughters [Jo Herron, Lynn Hadley, Nelle Greenawald, Merton Brown] : VOA
Cheryl Lunsford : VOA
Milton Lurey : JBWNC
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Ann and Robert MacPherson : VOA
Charlie McAdams : VOA
Charles McAdams : WWII
Eileen McCabe : VOA
Frances McDowell : VOA
Glenda I McDowell :VOA
Roger McGuire : VOA
Ernest and Magnolia McKissick : SHRC
W K McLean : SHRC
Harold Raymond McLewin : WWII
Gerald B McMillan : VOA
Elizabeth McMorris : SACC
Erline L McQueen : VOA
Erline L McQueen : YWCA
Majerowicz Family : SHOAH
Harry and Mary Lee Mamlin : JBWNC
Saint Ola Mapp : SACC
Estelle Marder : JHWNC
Nancy Marlowe : VOA
Martha Marshall : UNCAR
Elsie Marlowe Martin : RLSC
Harry martin : WWII
Dee Mason : VOA
Maggie Masters : VOA
Richard and Jane Matthews : VOA
Marjorie Maxwell : VOA
Glenn May : VOA
Phillip M Merrell : VOA
Thomas Meyer : RLSC
Henry Meyers : WWII
Lotte Meyerson : SHOAH
Kenneth M Michalove : VOA
David Middleton : WWII
Herman Middleton : GRO
Sallie Ellington Middleton : VOA
Talmage Walter Middleton : WWII
Dan Millspaugh : UNCAR
Frederick W Mitchell : WWII
Wayne Montgomery : RLSC
Frank Moody : WWII
Reg Moody : MAIN
Bertha Moore : WWII
William (Bill) Moore : VOA
Robert and Linda Morgan : VOA
Ralph D Morris : VOA
Thomas Morrissey : VOA
Artus Monroe Moser : SHRC
Artus Moser, Jr. and Ginny Moser: MHOTM
Virginia Moses : MAIN
Dr. Charles Mosley : AUR
Frank Mulvaney : SHRC
William Murphy : WWII
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Alan and Lucille Neilson : WWII
Willa Newell : UUCA
London Newton: LGBTQ
Natasha Noir Nightly/ Lane Wagner: LGBTQ
Mary Louise Nolan : UUCA
Dr. Russell Lee Norburn : SHRC
William Nothstein : SHRC
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Bridget O’Hara : A310
Brigitte Oliphant : VOA
Edith Overby : VOA
Harley Elmer Ownbey : VOA
Harley Elmer Ownbey : WWII
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Trudy Packard : JBWNC
Mary and Angelos Pappas : GRO
Richard and Anne Parham : VOA
James Parker : VOA
Mary Parker : ALT
Mary Parker : RLSC
Mary Parker : VOA
Mary Parker : YWCA
Joseph Eugene Parks : WWII
Kenneth Partin : VOA
Marilyn Patton : JBWNC
Mary Jane Scarborough Pearson : RLSC
Don Pedi: MHOTM
Hilliard Penland : RLSC
Chris Perry : VOA
Jackie Peterson : UNCAR
Ed Petterson : JHWNC
Richard Petty : NASCAR
Kari and Ashley Pilcher: LGBTQ
Gordon Pirkle : NASCAR
Dean Pistor : A310
Paul (Dusty) Pless Jr. : VOA
Lettie Polite : VOA
Anne Ponder : UNCAR
Herschel Ponder : WWII
Margaret Poor : VOA
Thelma Porter : ALT
Thelma Porter : AUR
Margery Post : VOA
Bill Pott : UNCAR
Mother Margaret Potts : VOA
Jack Powell : RLSC
Helen Pozner : JHWNC
Norma and Patrick Price : VOA
Naomi Pullman : UUCA
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Ella Ragsdale : SACC
Rainbow Mountain School : VOA
Gene Rainey : UNCAR
Kostas and Emily Rantzos : VOA
Dr. Lewis Rathburn : ALT
Dr. Lewis Rathburn : WWII
Eleanor and Charles Rawls : VOA
Jesse Ray Sr. : VOA
Julia Ray : ALT
Julia Ray : WWII
Landon “Buck” Ray : SHRC
Lucille Flack Ray : ALT
Milton Ready : VOA
Andy Reed: LGBTQ
Helen Tarasov Reed : VOA
Paul Reed : WWII
Gladys Reese : UUCA
Burder and Betty Reeves : SMC
Don Reeves : SMC
Markus Reich : SHOAH
Peter Reiser : SHOAH
Rita Reiser : SHOAH
John Mackey Reynolds : VOA
Thomas and Lillian Reynolds : VOA
Jamie Rhodes : A310
James Thomas (J T) Rice : WWII
Roy Rice : SHRC
“The Rivers of the Carolinas” : VOA
Bobby Marshall Roberts : WWII
George Roberts : JBWNC
Landon Roberts : WWII
Hazel and John Robinson : ALT
Michael Robinson : JBWNC
Leon Rocamora : JBWNC
Colonel Paul Rockwell : SHRC
Paula Roebke : VOA
Emily Rogers : WWII
Scott Rogers : VOA
Georgia Roland : CDE
Evelyn Cordell Romeo : RLSC
James Roosseau : VOA
Frank Rosen : JBWNC
Carolyn Rosenthal : VOA
Frederick John Rosenthal : SHOAH
Frederick John Rosenthal : WWII
Gerald Rubin : JHWNC
Miriam Rudow : SHOAH
Lorena Russell: LGBTQ
Florence Ryan : VOA
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Agnes Sanborn : UUCA
Mary Sancrant : VOA
Soldier Sanders : WWII
Hilda Burrell Sands : VOA
Arthur Sandman : JBWNC
Michael Sargent : VOA
Roland Sargent : WWII
Henry and Virginia Sayles : UUCA
Harold and Mary Schaill : WWII
Deborah and Jack Schandler : JHWNC
John Q Schell : VOA
Patty Schleicher : VOA
Clarence Schmidt : WWII
Jan Schochet : JBWNC
Mary Schochet : JBWNC
Sidney Schochet : JHWNC
Sidney Schochet : WWII
Alison Scott: LGBTQ
Virginia Bryan Schreiber : SHRC
Herbert Schulman : MAIN
Sol Schulman : MAIN
Robert Sechler : WII
Fred Seely Jr. : SHRC
Ted Seitz : UNCAR
Nancy Seymour : VOA
Katharine Bynum Shepard : VOA
Robert E Shepherd : VOA
Allen Sher : WWII
Booker T Sherrill : VOA
O. L. Sherrill : CDE
O. L. Sherrill : VOA
Phyllis Jones Sherrill : VOA
Dr. Mary Frances (Polly) Shuford : SHRC
Bobbi Siegal : JBWNC
Stamatia Sigmon : GEO
Louis D Silveri : VOA
Oralene Simmons : VOA
Robin Singleton : SMC
Mary Elizabeth Robinson Sligh : VOA
Charles Sluder : VOA
Harold Sluder : VOA
Edward Smith : WWII
Robert “Bob” Smith : VOA
Eva Solomon : JBWNC
Albert, Alan, Ray and Jay Sorrells : VOA
Viola Jones Spells : CDE
Mary Ida Brown Sprague : RLSC
Dexter Squibb : UNCAR
Wanda Stanard : VOA
O E Starnes : UNCAR
O E Starnes : VOA
O E Starnes : WWII
Eleanor Waddell Stephens : VOA
George Myers Stephens : SHRC
Imogene (Cissie) Radeker Stevens : VOA
Marion Stivers : VOA
Karl Straus : SHOAH
Sylvia Straus : JHWNC
Phyllis Sultan : JBWNC
Phyllis Sultan : WWII
Bluford and Lottie Surrett : SMC
Beauford Hayes Sutton : WWII
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Marilyn Takaro : UUCA
Timothy Takaro : UUCA
Alice Tash : WWII
Rueben Taylor : WWII
Charles “ Buzz” Tennent : SHRC
Bob Terrell : VOA
Mitzi Tessier : ALT
Mitzi Tessier : VOA
Col. Alfred J Thomas : VOA
Randall Thompson : UUCA
Reid Thompson : A310
Virgil Thompson : WWII
Alan Thorp : JBWNC
Billie Walker Tingle : RLSC
Dewitt Tipton : WWII
Michael Todd: LGBTQ
O T Tomes : VOA
Clara Tracy: LGBTQ
Maria Treskas : GRO
Lynn Troutner : VOA
Nick and Anastacia (Anne) Tsiros : VOA
Herbert Turner : VOA
George Tushak : SHOAH
U
Maya Ulin-O’Keefe: LGBTQ
Unique Black Heritage of Western North Carolina : SHRC
Claudette Diana Reed Upton : UUCA
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John P VanAlstyne : VOA
Susan Van Burgel : VOA
Jeanette Vanderwart : SHOAH
Joseph Vanderwart : SHOAH
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Phillip Walker : UNCA
Rosa Logan Walker : ALT
Irene Walker-Harris : UUCA
Susan Walton : VOA
Georgia Byers Wasson : RLSC
David “Fox” Watson : SHRC
Jean and Robert Webb : VOA
Theodore Weinberger : JHWNC
Stefan Weir : VOA
Lee Shai Weissbach : JHWNC
Eric Wellisch : SHOAH
Eric Wellisch : WWII
Keith Wells : SMC
H A “Humpy” Wheeler : NASCAR
Alice White : VOA
Tina White: LGBTQ
Shirley and Alfred J Whitesides Jr. : VOA
David Williams : UUCA
Genevieve Williams : SACC
Mary Williams : VOA
William Williams : VOA
Lewis Wils and Katie Wills: MHOTM
Dr. John Wilson : ALT
Susan Wilson: LGBTQ
Dennis and Robert Winner : JBWNC
Sister Kathleen Winters : VOA
Fred Wolfe : SHRC
Mary Ellen Wolcott : VOA
Mary Ellen Wolcott : WWII
Richard A Wood Jr. : VOA
Wallace B Wright : WWII
Alice Wutschel : UNCAR
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Augusta Young : UUCA
Charlotte Young : SHRC
Grafton Young : WWII
Juanita Young : SHRC
Robert Youngdeer : WWII
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Zageir Family : JBWNC
Walter Ziffer : SHOAH
Mary Zourzoukis ; GRO