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Coker was the son of businessman James Lide Coker, and the brother of agriculturalist David Robert Coker. [3]!-- although Marquis does not explicitly say that David Robert and William Chambers were brothers, not only did they have the same surname, they were born in the same city, two years apart, to parents with exactly the same names and surnames.
George Coker was born in Amarillo, Texas, on July 14, 1943.In 1951, his family moved to Linden, New Jersey, where he became a New Jersey high school state wrestling champion in the 142 lb weight class and played high school varsity football at Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. [1]
Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions (formerly the Aurora Casket Company) is one of the largest manufacturers of caskets and funerary urns in the United States, selling over 38% of the country's caskets as of 2005. The Aurora, Indiana–based company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Matthews International.
When Charlie Coker succeeded his father as president in 1970, Sonoco had annual sales of $125 million, there were 6,000 employees, and its operations totaled 61. By 1998, when he moved from chief executive officer and chairman of the board, Sonoco had annual sales of $2.56 billion and its 16,500 employees were stationed at more than 275 ...
Junius Conyers Matthews (June 12, 1890 – January 18, 1978) [1] was an American actor in films, theater, radio and television.He was the voice of Archimedes the Owl in Disney's The Sword in the Stone in 1963.
Ronald Leroy Coker (August 9, 1947 – March 24, 1969) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in March 1969.
Daniel Coker (1780–1846), first American Methodist missionary to the British colony of Sierra Leone; David Robert Coker (1870–1938), American agricultural reformer; D. J. Coker (born 1997), American football player; Dolo Coker (1927–1983), American jazz pianist and composer; Dorcas Coker-Appiah (born 1946), Ghanaian lawyer and women's ...
James L Coker. Major James Lide Coker (January 3, 1837, in Society Hill, South Carolina – June 25, 1918, in Hartsville, South Carolina) was a businessman, merchant, industrialist, Christian philanthropist, [1] [2] [3] and Civil War veteran, and the founder of Sonoco Products Company and Coker University.