“I will always miss Spurgeon Glenn, he was so good to me….” Lila F. Albergotti an interview
City Directories and History: Mrs. Lila Albergotti, who is a member of an old and distinguished Anderson family has provided an in-depth look at growing up in Anderson, helping start Anderson’s Meals on Wheels Program and the Upstate Hospice facility, the Callie and John Rainey Hospice House. Her interview topics including but not limited to: J.J. Fretwell (grandfather), Raymond Fretwell (father), the Family Mule Business (South McDuffie), Fretwell House (NW corner of Church and S. McDuffie), Fretwell Woods (Where Sunset Forest was built), People’s Furniture Company, Kennedy Street School, Aunt Chloe (AA Nursemaid), Spurgeon Glenn (Fretwell’s Man Servant), Eunice Sullivan Pracht (Next door neighbor), Sissy and Jewel Little (Domestic help at the Fretwells), Alice Lee Humphreys (First Grade Teacher), Amie Trask Wright and Lois Welch Hart (Good childhood friends), Lucie-Ann Harris (Broadway Lake), Robert Gallant, Forrest Suggs, Sam Haddock, Sam Moorhead, Alonzo “Ab” River, Bill Bolt, Salem College, Dean Vardell, Ms. Grace Cronkite, Anderson Meals on Wheels, Aubrey Marshall, Good Hope Presbyterian Church (Iva SC), Goetz Eaton, Jim Ed Rice Center, Lucille Mayo (First Ex. Director of the MOW Program), Louise Ervin, Jan Flint, Sam Albergotti (Attorney and Son), Bill Albergotti (Husband), Senator Fritz Hollings, McCants Junior High School, Rev. Bob Burgreen, City Manager Richard Woodruff, John Rainey, Callie Rainey, Roger Milliken,
All Credits: Anderson County Memories and Reflections compiled by R.C. Otter, Friends of the Library – 2004
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