Lucy Jane Warters was one of six children born to Thomas Lassiter (1863-1938) and Willie Mae (Gholson) Warters (1873-1938), her birthdate being June 8th, 1900. She was named after her father's aunt, Lucy Jane (Lassiter) Joyner, who, with her husband, Moses, raised Thomas Lassiter Warters; they left him their tobacco farm, which helped him create his business of producing fine cigars (see below).
My auntie Jane always went by Jane Warters only and she is buried under "Dr. Jane Warters", as well, although she was christened Lucy Jane. She was my father's aunt and he remembered when she took him and his brother to the World's Fair in New York in 1939.
Her parents wanted their children to have good educations and provided all of them with college educations, with the exception of Willie Louise who had suffered a traumatic head injury from a street car accident as a child. She suffered from seizures for the rest of her life and was cared for by her parents. However, Jane, Mary, Ruth, Agnes, and Thomas all attended and graduated from Shorter College, now known as Shorter University, in Rome, Georgia, where they all grew up. Their father had a thriving tobacco company, selling cigars that were known for their better quality. He also owned the land on which the tobacco grew, and so could monitor how it was grown and harvested. Following her graduation from Shorter College, she went on to earn her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. In addition to being a noted psychologist, my auntie Jane authored five college text books and many journal articles. She was in Who's Who in America and was chairman of the education dept. at University of Southern California from 1951-1965. She then established educational programs for military personnel in Europe from 1966 to 1972. She lived in Los Angeles, CA where she taught mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles all of her career, living in a nice apartment that looked out over the city of Los Angeles. [My sisters and I went to visit her with our father when he took us to Disneyland when we were young. I was so impressed with a room that held books on every wall and still remember.] Following her retirement, she returned to the South to live out the remainder of her life in Durham, North Carolina near her closest sister, Agnes Warters Little. She died on Jan 25th, 1988 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in LaGrange, Lenoir County, North Carolina. She was my great aunt, my father's aunt, one of his mother's sisters, a very nice and exceedingly intelligent woman. I regret I wasn't able to know her better but am glad I was able to meet her when I was young.
My auntie Jane always went by Jane Warters only and she is buried under "Dr. Jane Warters", as well, although she was christened Lucy Jane. She was my father's aunt and he remembered when she took him and his brother to the World's Fair in New York in 1939.
Her parents wanted their children to have good educations and provided all of them with college educations, with the exception of Willie Louise who had suffered a traumatic head injury from a street car accident as a child. She suffered from seizures for the rest of her life and was cared for by her parents. However, Jane, Mary, Ruth, Agnes, and Thomas all attended and graduated from Shorter College, now known as Shorter University, in Rome, Georgia, where they all grew up. Their father had a thriving tobacco company, selling cigars that were known for their better quality. He also owned the land on which the tobacco grew, and so could monitor how it was grown and harvested. Following her graduation from Shorter College, she went on to earn her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. In addition to being a noted psychologist, my auntie Jane authored five college text books and many journal articles. She was in Who's Who in America and was chairman of the education dept. at University of Southern California from 1951-1965. She then established educational programs for military personnel in Europe from 1966 to 1972. She lived in Los Angeles, CA where she taught mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles all of her career, living in a nice apartment that looked out over the city of Los Angeles. [My sisters and I went to visit her with our father when he took us to Disneyland when we were young. I was so impressed with a room that held books on every wall and still remember.] Following her retirement, she returned to the South to live out the remainder of her life in Durham, North Carolina near her closest sister, Agnes Warters Little. She died on Jan 25th, 1988 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in LaGrange, Lenoir County, North Carolina. She was my great aunt, my father's aunt, one of his mother's sisters, a very nice and exceedingly intelligent woman. I regret I wasn't able to know her better but am glad I was able to meet her when I was young.
Lucy Jane Warters was one of six children born to Thomas Lassiter (1863-1938) and Willie Mae (Gholson) Warters (1873-1938), her birthdate being June 8th, 1900. She was named after her father's aunt, Lucy Jane (Lassiter) Joyner, who, with her husband, Moses, raised Thomas Lassiter Warters; they left him their tobacco farm, which helped him create his business of producing fine cigars (see below).
My auntie Jane always went by Jane Warters only and she is buried under "Dr. Jane Warters", as well, although she was christened Lucy Jane. She was my father's aunt and he remembered when she took him and his brother to the World's Fair in New York in 1939.
Her parents wanted their children to have good educations and provided all of them with college educations, with the exception of Willie Louise who had suffered a traumatic head injury from a street car accident as a child. She suffered from seizures for the rest of her life and was cared for by her parents. However, Jane, Mary, Ruth, Agnes, and Thomas all attended and graduated from Shorter College, now known as Shorter University, in Rome, Georgia, where they all grew up. Their father had a thriving tobacco company, selling cigars that were known for their better quality. He also owned the land on which the tobacco grew, and so could monitor how it was grown and harvested. Following her graduation from Shorter College, she went on to earn her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. In addition to being a noted psychologist, my auntie Jane authored five college text books and many journal articles. She was in Who's Who in America and was chairman of the education dept. at University of Southern California from 1951-1965. She then established educational programs for military personnel in Europe from 1966 to 1972. She lived in Los Angeles, CA where she taught mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles all of her career, living in a nice apartment that looked out over the city of Los Angeles. [My sisters and I went to visit her with our father when he took us to Disneyland when we were young. I was so impressed with a room that held books on every wall and still remember.] Following her retirement, she returned to the South to live out the remainder of her life in Durham, North Carolina near her closest sister, Agnes Warters Little. She died on Jan 25th, 1988 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in LaGrange, Lenoir County, North Carolina. She was my great aunt, my father's aunt, one of his mother's sisters, a very nice and exceedingly intelligent woman. I regret I wasn't able to know her better but am glad I was able to meet her when I was young.
My auntie Jane always went by Jane Warters only and she is buried under "Dr. Jane Warters", as well, although she was christened Lucy Jane. She was my father's aunt and he remembered when she took him and his brother to the World's Fair in New York in 1939.
Her parents wanted their children to have good educations and provided all of them with college educations, with the exception of Willie Louise who had suffered a traumatic head injury from a street car accident as a child. She suffered from seizures for the rest of her life and was cared for by her parents. However, Jane, Mary, Ruth, Agnes, and Thomas all attended and graduated from Shorter College, now known as Shorter University, in Rome, Georgia, where they all grew up. Their father had a thriving tobacco company, selling cigars that were known for their better quality. He also owned the land on which the tobacco grew, and so could monitor how it was grown and harvested. Following her graduation from Shorter College, she went on to earn her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. In addition to being a noted psychologist, my auntie Jane authored five college text books and many journal articles. She was in Who's Who in America and was chairman of the education dept. at University of Southern California from 1951-1965. She then established educational programs for military personnel in Europe from 1966 to 1972. She lived in Los Angeles, CA where she taught mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles all of her career, living in a nice apartment that looked out over the city of Los Angeles. [My sisters and I went to visit her with our father when he took us to Disneyland when we were young. I was so impressed with a room that held books on every wall and still remember.] Following her retirement, she returned to the South to live out the remainder of her life in Durham, North Carolina near her closest sister, Agnes Warters Little. She died on Jan 25th, 1988 and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery in LaGrange, Lenoir County, North Carolina. She was my great aunt, my father's aunt, one of his mother's sisters, a very nice and exceedingly intelligent woman. I regret I wasn't able to know her better but am glad I was able to meet her when I was young.
