Family History

Walter M. Hayden


My great-grandfather was a combatant in World War II and a very courageous man. He was born Walter M. Hayden on January 22nd, 1920 in a small town in Nebo, North Carolina. He was a very intelligent, handsome man. He was honorably discharged from the military service of the United States of America in October of 1945. He and my great-grandmother, Willie Mae Green, conceived only one child within their forty-six year union. My grandmother Margaret Green didn’t meet her father until the year of 1990. When my grandmother first united with her father, she came to discover that he was blind. He was residing in a nursing home in North Carolina. He had lost his right leg due to diabetes in 1988. He worked at the Institution for the Blind in North Carolina.
Walter M. Hayden died when he was seventy-four years old in 1994.
Walter M. Hayden was an automobile service station attendant in the military. He was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Army ...