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JAMES "JIM" SELMAN STREET

Last known photo of James Street and his wife Lillian Belle Drake Street before his death in 1978

James Selman Street was born October 26, 1914 in Atlanta, GA. He lived in Franklin, NC when his parents moved there to operate a newspaper. He has lived in Highlands, NC which is a summer resort town. He worked as a teenager at the golf course and golf became a life long love for him. He met his wife Lillian Belle Drake in Greer, SC when his family moved to Greer. They were married in Greer on November 26, 1936. Lillian was the daughter of Henry Roger Drake and Vesta Luna. (See information below on the Drake and Luna families). James joined the US Army in 1940 for one year. When the war broke out in 1941, he was extended until 1945. He served as an X-Ray Tech in the Army. He followed his father in the printing business after the war. He worked for a newspaper in Clinton, SC and the Black Mountain News in Black Mountain, NC. He moved to Greenville, South Carolina in 1947 and owned and operated the City Printing Co. with his brother Bill and sister Ruth. They sold the business in 1948 and they went to work as linotype operators at The Greenville News. James retired from the newspaper in 1977. They moved to Simpsonville, SC prior to his retirement where he was living at the time of his death in 1978. They were members a Baptist Church. They took up camping and enjoyed traveling. He won several newspaper and local golf tournaments. They had three children, but two died young. James' death was unexplained. Possible hospital accident or error. He never left the hospital after birth. Doris Jean died very unexpected from a brain tumor at the age of almost 3 years old. Lillian moved to Tacoma, WA to be close to her son Tom in 1993. She died in Tacoma on December 16, 1995 in Tacoma and was buried next to her husband at Graceland Cemetery in Greenville, SC.

(1) Thomas Mitchell Street b. April 4, 1943 in Farmville, NC (Click Here For More Info)

(2) James Roger Street b. December 23, 1946 in Ashville, NC and died December 29, 1946.

(3) Doris Jean Street b. July 18, 1951 in Greenville, SC and died June 2, 1954.

INFORMATION ON THE DRAKE FAMILY