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Golf couple, 1956
Golf portrait of couple Leila and Bill Oughterson, taken in front of the Martin County Golf and Country Club. Bill Oughterson was an attorney in Stuart and also served as Martin County's prosecuting attorney. -
Grayce Pomeroy Walton, c. 1950
Golf portrait of Grayce Pomeroy Walton. Grayce was married to Morris Walton during the 1950s but the couple divorced in 1957. Grayce was a former president of the Martin County Chamber of Commerce. She founded the Peninsular Title Company and American Business Woman's Association elected her woman of the year in 1984. -
Dr. Walter Davey, 1956
Golf portrait of Dr. Walter F. Davey. Dr. Davey practiced medicine in Stuart for years. He was also a veteran of WWII and winner of many golfing awards. -
Trio of golfers, 1956
Bill Oughterson (left) and Walter "Buddy" Wells shake hands on a golf course. A teenage boy stands between the men. He is identified as S. Oughterson on the front of the photograph but as Vincent Higbee on the back. -
Dr. Paul Thomas, 1956
Golf portrait of Dr. Paul Thomas, Jr., local optometrist and director at First Federal Bank of Martin County. Thomas also served as a director of the Martin County Golf and Country Club and a president of Stuart Kiwanis Club during the 1950s. -
Trio on golf course, c. 1960
Jim Reardon and Rev. Walter Jessup (right) stand with a young girl on the Martin County golf course. People gathered in the background, likely for a golf tournament. Rev. Jessup was a pastor at First Methodist Church of Stuart during the early 1960s and was club champion at Martin County Golf and Country Club in 1963 and 1964. -
Etta DeStefano, women's golf champion, c. 1965
Portrait of three golfers. Etta DeStefano (left) holds a golf trophy as an unidentified woman and Jessie Higbee (right) look on. DeStefano was a golfing champion in the 1960s and 1970s, winning the women's golfing tournaments many times at several country clubs. -
Cecil Johns, 1956
Golf portrait of Stuart pioneer and lifelong resident, R. Cecil Johns. Johns owned and operated the only funeral home in Stuart from 1924 to 1968. He also owned Johns Laundry and Dry Cleaners and worked as Stuart's first fire chief. -
Bill Oughterson, 1956
Golf portrait of Bill Oughterson. Oughterson was an attorney in Stuart and also served as Martin County's prosecuting attorney. -
George Parks, Jr., 1956
Golf portrait of George Parks, Jr., who served as the clubhouse committee chairman at Martin County Golf and Country Club during the 1950s. Parks' pioneering father started a Gulf Oil Corporation distribution business in Stuart during the early 1900s. Parks Jr. and his sister, Anita Parks Morrison continued operation of the family business for many years. He was also the Acacia masonic lodge master in 1950.