Thomas David Winston

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<p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>#105a83; letter-spacing: .35pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">By: Douglas L. Winston</strong></p>01pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">Thomas David Winston (“Thomas David”) was born in Steubenville, Ohio on June 19, 1920 from the union of Thomas Osbey Winston and Ida Doubt.  His parents were married in Wellsburg, West Virginia on November 29, 1919 when his mother Ida was about two months pregnant.  At the time of his birth his father’s sister, Martha Elizabeth Winston, lived in Steubenville as well.  They all resided in Steubenville until the early 1920's when they all moved to Cleveland, Ohio. </p>: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">A directory of Cleveland's residents published in 1925 listed an address of 2245 E. 68th Street for his mother Ida and an address of 2321 E. 55th Street for his Aunt Martha.  His parents had been divorced before publication of this directory and his mother remarried a Marvin Grays on April 20, 1925. </p>01pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">A Cleveland City Directory from 1928 reveals his father then lived at 2515 E. 33rd Street. And a U.S. Census of Cleveland conducted on April 5, 1930 reveals Thomas David lived with his mother Ida at 2243 E. 84th Street.  By this date Ida was separatedfrom Marvin Grays.  Ida and Grays divorced shortly thereafter.</p>normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">Thomas David lived with his Aunt Martha for a period of time. Reflected in Cleveland's city directory for 1938, he resided with his Aunt Martha at her rooming hotel addressed as 2343 E. 55th Street. That directory did not dislose an address for his father, who was likely living in Chicago at the time with his wife Pattie Willet, nor an address for his mom Ida. More fully explored in the biographies of his parents, these records support a determination Martha reared Thomas David in the mid to late 1930's. </p>t-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>e; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">He graduated from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio located on E. 55th Street, graduating a year sooner than the four years needed for securing a high school diploma. His accelerated graduation is supported by a 1940 Census conducted in Cleveland on April 5, 1940 in which he mentioned he attended high school for three years rather than four and his graduation picture which appears in Central High’s yearbook.</p>iant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">In the latter half of the 1930s he met Valgene Irene Brown.  She had moved from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania to Cleveland, Ohio when she was 15 years old.  After a brief courtship they married on February 6, 1940 when Valgene was roughly three months pregnant with their first child, Leonard David Winston.  Leonard was born on July 21, 1940 in Cleveland, OH.  Common knowledge existed at the time of Thomas's  marriage to Valgene that he had a son named Harvey, who was born to a Viola McCall a few years before this marriage.</p>widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">A U.S. census conducted on April 5, 1940 in Cleveland establish Thomas David and Valgene then resided at 2123 E. 46th Street. At this time they lived with his mother's sister named Clara Jones (Doubt) and her husband David. This census also noted Thomas David was a porter at a hotel, likely the one operated by his Aunt Martha at this time.  According to a Cleveland City Directory published for 1943 thru 1944, he and Valgene later moved to a home addressed as 4310 Green Ct., Apt. 2314.</p>pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">Rodney, their second child, was born on September 11, 1942.  On May 1, 1944 Thomas David enlisted in the U.S. Navy.  Before his enlistment he worked as a waiter at Canterbury Golf Club located at 22000 Woodland Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. A record from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs shows he was released from service on December 2, 1945, months after WWII ended on September 2, 1945.  Valgene indicated his ship was en route to Japan when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945).</p>nd: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">After his military service city directories establish he and Valgene lived in theGarden Valley Apartments, at 3187 E. 79^th Street. These directories noted he was a machinist or machine operator, employed with the National Screw and Manufacturing Company. The couple maintained this address for close to a decade, from circa 1950 to 1959.  During this time the couple had Margaret E. (1952), Thomas E. (1954) and Donald and Douglas (1960). Around the time Donald and Douglas were born in February of 1960 he and Valgene had moved to the corner of E. 79th and Kinsman Avenue.  Years later they moved to a two story home in Cleveland, Ohio addressed as 8212Golden Avenue. It was around this time he suffered from alcoholism, a disorder he overcame by the time his youngest children began their schooling.   </p>gin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>gatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">Vowing never to drink alcohol again which he honored, he became a devout Catholic and role model. He moved his family from Golden Avenue to 3385 E. 118th Street in Cleveland where he attended Epiphany Catholic Church, located off E. 119th and Union Avenue. He succumbed to cancer on March 2, 1975 at the young age of 54, after fighting this disease for roughly two years. He was buried on March 6, 1975.  His funeral was held at Epiphany Catholic Church and his body was buried at Highland Park Cemetery in Beachwood, OH, at Section 3, Lot No. 6, Tier No. 27, Grave No. 14.  </p>s="MsoNormal"> </p>
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