When he was 22 years old he was working as a laborer for the railroad before eventually working and retiring as a coal miner and truck driver.
He married Callie Mildred Buckland, daughter of Elbert Wilson Buckland and Ada Pearl Pittman, on Christmas Eve of 1931 in Beckley West Virginia and although they were divorced in May of 1956, they remarried on October 6, 1956. Don and Mildred had four children, Peggy Lou, Phillip Waine, Betty and Donald Gene.
Don was a patient at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley West Virginia when he died from lung cancer on December 10, 1971.
When he was 22 years old he was working as a laborer for the railroad before eventually working and retiring as a coal miner and truck driver.
He married Callie Mildred Buckland, daughter of Elbert Wilson Buckland and Ada Pearl Pittman, on Christmas Eve of 1931 in Beckley West Virginia and although they were divorced in May of 1956, they remarried on October 6, 1956. Don and Mildred had four children, Peggy Lou, Phillip Waine, Betty and Donald Gene.
Don was a patient at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley West Virginia when he died from lung cancer on December 10, 1971.
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