Celebrating E. D. Winstead's
Life!
1913 - 2013

Link to Obituary plus Funeral Newspaper Article

Elton Dewitt Winstead was born in 1913
in Wilson, North Carolina.


 

E. D. Winstead Celebrating His 99th Birthday in 2012
 

Link to Autobiographical Narrative, Interview, and Speeches,
including Twenty-Four Years of U. S. Army Service
by Elton D. ("E. D.") Winstead

 

 

E. D Winstead at World War II Memorial
in Washington, D.C.

May 14, 2011

Trip for WWII veterans sponsored by the Rotary Club


E. D. Winstead with Bob Dole


May 14, 2011


E. D. Winstead with son Ed
 
 

1930
E. D. Winstead
Graduating from
High School in
Wilson, NC

 

c. 1935
San Francisco,
California

 

c. 1936
Ft. Monroe
Virginia

 

 1939 - 1940
 Hawaii, Guam
 and
Philippines

 

1941
Philippines

 

War
MIA
POW

 

1945
Captain E. D. Winstead
Rescued from
Bilibid Prison
Manila, Philippines

 
March 31,
1945

  March 31, 1945 Major E. D. Winstead receiving the Key to the City of Wilson, North Carolina
(Recently returned from the Philippines after being a Japanese Prisoner of War for three years)

 

September 1945
Jo Winstead
 
1946
with wife Jo,
sons Dee, and Ray


Fort Monroe, Virginia
 

1947


Ft. Scott, CA
 
Ft. Baker, CA
 

c. 1949
with wife Jo

  

1951
LTC E. D. Winstead
Ft. Totten and
Ft. Drum, New York

 

1952
Officially recommended for promotion to Colonel
but "no vancancies"

 

1953
LTC E. D. Winstead
Post Commander
Ft. Davis
Panama Canal Zone

 

1957
E. D. Winstead's Family

 

1960
E. D. Winstead
Graduating from
Atlantic Christian College

 

1964
E. D. Winstead
Assistant Professor of Education
Atlantic Christian College

 

1966
Dr. E. D. Winstead


Jo Winstead's Siblings

Minshew Reunion
July 24, 1966
1966 Jo and E. D., Duke University graduation with doctoral degree
Professor of Education and Mathematics,
Chairman of Department of Mathematics
Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, NC.

  

1968
Dr. E. D. Winstead
Chairman of the
Department of Mathematics

 

1970

 

1975
with wife Jo

 

1981
with wife Jo
(Portrait of John Tomline Walsh)


John Tomline Walsh
 

1986
with wife Jo and son Ray

 

1987
with wife Jo

 

1988
with wife Jo

 

1989
with wife Jo

 

May, 1990
with wife Jo
(and son Ray)

 

June, 1992
with wife Jo

 
 

1993
Penn Run,
Pennsylvania

 

1994
Tyrone,
Pennsylvania

 

March
1995
E. D. Winstead Day


TV Interviews and Speech Video
March 31, 1995  "E. D. Winstead Day"
Wilson, North Carolina

(Sponsored by Wilson Committee on Patriotism - commemoration of end of WWII)

 

c. 1995

June
1995
with wife Jo


c. 1995

 

September
1997
with wife Jo

 

1998
with wife Jo
and
grandchildren

 

2003

 

2004
with sister Clara

 

December
2006

   

 

2007


May 20, 2007 attending graduation ceremony at Barton College

November 4, 2007
 

August 2007, Durham, NC
and
Earlier Bowling Trophies,
Wilson, NC

    

 

2008

E. D. Winstead in 2008
E. D. Winstead Celebrating His 95th Birthday in 2008
 
2009
E. D. Winstead celebrating his

daughter's retirement May 20, 2009
in Los Angeles, California

E. D. Winstead Celebrating His 96th Birthday
in 2009
 

2010


E. D. Winstead Celebrating His 97th Birthday in 2010
 

2011


E. D. Winstead Celebrating His 98th Birthday in 2011
 


1907
EDW's Parents Nettie and Frank Winstead


1914
EDW with Parents


c. 1923
EDW at Aunt Laura's
house in Virginia

1926
EDW with Brother Ollin
and Sister Clara


1939
EDW's Father

Frank Winstead


1964
EDW's Parents

Nettie and Frank Winstead

EDW's Father
and Three of his Father's
Brothers.

EDW's Grandfather
John Winstead
EDW's
Great Grandfather
Alexander
Winstead

Link to Winstead Genealogy:
Family Tree

Direct-line, Detailed Winstead Genealogy (Download Word document)

Check out Winstead Genealogy at WinsteadGenealogy-DescendantsOfSamuelWinstead.pdf.
Large book scanned by Jacob L. Winstead)

E. D. Winstead and his wife Josephine Minshew Winstead had the same “grandmother” Elizabeth Winston Green
(from two different husbands) about 1670, both eight generations back.

PowerPoint Presentation of Photos of E. D. Winstead

Some Past Addresses

Listen to E. D. Winstead's brother Frank Ollin Winstead Sing!

Poem "My Dear Daddy" by Lucille Minshew, sister of Josephine Minshew Winstead on the death of their father in 1936.

 

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