Dr. John Greene Herring, Jr., a resident of Thomasville, NC, passed away on Monday, March 4, 2013 at the Piedmont Crossing Retirement Community. Dr. John Greene Herring, Jr. (Jack) was born in Tifton on July 31, 1915 to Ruby Leigh Hewitt Herring and Editor John Greene Herring, Sr. He completed his public school education at Tifton High School in 1933. He attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, finishing in 1935. He next attended the University of Georgia College of Agriculture in Athens, where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture in 1937. In 1940 he married Esther Ruth Wood of Baxley. They had two children, Doris Esther Herring Russell of Whispering Pines, NC and John Greene Herring, III of Guatemala.
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