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Nally, Susan Ward
Nelson, Shawn-Michelle
Netterville,
John T., Sr.
Nix,
Don
Norris, Dorry Baird
Northern, George A.
Norwood, Ben
Nowak, Barbara
Oden, Sue Barton
Oldham, Bethenia
McLemore
Oldham, Robert K.
O'Neill, Jennifer
O’Neill,
Suzannah
Oosting,
Kenneth W.
O’Toole,
Jack
Owen, Jane Bowman
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Nally,
Susan Ward (1947- )
Susan Ward Nally
was born in
Louisville,
Kentucky. She graduated from
John
Overton
High School in
Nashville in 1965 and
Western
Kentucky
University in 1969. She taught school in
Kentucky and was a substitute teacher in the
Williamson
County school system. Nally
has done contract work for the Tennessee Baptist Convention and Lifeway Christian Resources. She has tutored at the
Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home and has participated in several mission trips
to Honduras. Nally lives
in Brentwood.
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–How
to Say Yes! To All the Best Choices (and Really Mean It),
1994
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–How
to Stay Cool When Things Are Tough (and Really Like It), 1994
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–How
to Feel Most Excellent! About Who You Are (and Really
Enjoy It) (co-author), 1994
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Nelson,
Shawn-Michelle (1971- )
With a base formed by a literary family—parents who are poets and songwriters, Shawn-Michelle began writing almost naturally. Her childhood
and youth in Malibu, California, deeply shaped her sensibilities. Then she attended Belmont University in Nashville and majored in journalism. She
is the author, journalist and illustrator of more than 100 published works, including feature articles, record reviews, poetry compilations,
self-help and children's books. Nelson has written several books about the spiritual journey in which she strives to speak straight to the soul.
She founded her own publishing company, Mornin' Light Media, in 2004.
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Netterville,
John T., Sr.
(1930- )
John T. Netterville
Sr. was born in 1930 and attended David Lipscomb University, George Peabody
College, Cornell University, the University of Mississippi, and Vanderbilt
University. He was a science teacher in public and private schools and a
chemistry professor at
David
Lipscomb
University. From 1980 to 1984 he served as
superintendent of the Williamson County School System. Later, he taught
chemistry and physics at
Brentwood
High School and was a part-time guest professor at
David Lipscomb before retirement.
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–World of Chemistry-Essentials, 1993
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–Laboratory Manual for World of Chemistry,
1991
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–World of Chemistry, 1991, 2nd ed. 1996
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–Chemistry, Impact on Society, 1988
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–Chemistry and the Environment, 1973
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–Laboratory Manual for Chemistry, Man, and
Society, 1972
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–Chemistry, Man, and Society, 1972
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–Laboratory Manual for Chemistry, a Brief
Introduction, 1970
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–Chemistry, a Brief Introduction, 1969
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Nix, Don
Born and reared in
Memphis, Don Nix left high school in 1955 and
spent the next 20 years as a blues and rock and roll musician. He has written
and produced with Stack Records. His
autobiography includes recipes of some of the artists who were part of his life
on the road. An amateur photographer, he has published two calendars featuring
photographs of those musicians. He lived several years in
Franklin before finding a remote farm farther
south.
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Norris, Dorry
Baird
Dorry Baird
Norris, a native of
Suffern,
New York, used her degree from Cornell School of
Home Economics to raise a family of five children, after which she became
director of the Consumer Opportunity Program. In this capacity she became
interested in using herbs as a means of developing better food and then in
growing and cooking with herbs. She published Wine and Herbs in conjunction with the New York Cayuga Trail. She
has published several pamphlets and a quarterly newsletter entitled Sage Advice. In 1993 she moved her
extensive herb garden to
Williamson
County.
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Northern, George A. (1931- )
George
Northern was the eleventh child of Thomas and Charlotte Berry Northern in the
Grassland area of Williamson County.
His mother’s roots go back to the Berry’s
Chapel area. Much of his early career was served in the Williamson
County school system where he was
guidance counselor at Natchez High
School for many years and then the first
principal of Scales School.
His interest in history has led him to teach, record, and create much of the
important educational history of the county. As a lifelong member of Greater
Pleasant View Baptist Church, he was naturally chosen to co-author its history.
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Norwood, Ben
A
native of
Dallas,
Texas, Ben Norwood studied at Southern Methodist
University and the
University of
Texas where he had a double major
in English and Portuguese and a minor in French. He also studied as a Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow at the
University of
Lisbon. His linguistic training has
served him well in his work for American Airlines in International Security and
International Flight Service. His volume
of poems includes one inspired by a spot he found while cycling in
West
Williamson
County. The book contains poems
written over his lifetime, many of which have been previously published.
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Nowak, Barbara
Barbara Nowak is a
native of New Jersey and lived in Washington, D.C. and southern California
before moving to Franklin. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science
from Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She worked in public relations
and as an independent special events consultant. Nowak became interested in
cooking after her marriage to Paul, a lawyer and songwriter. She has written
newspaper columns for the Tennessean, including a review of restaurants
and a how-to for home sellers. With her sister, she has developed a weekly radio
show, “Taste of Nashville...With the Saucy Sisters.” She has also been a regular
guest on many local and national radio and TV productions.
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–The Saucy Sisters Guide
to Wine: What Every Girl Should Know Before She Uncorks, 2004
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–Insider's Guide to the
Best Places to Eat in Nashville (with Beverly Wichman), 1997
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–Cook It Right! The
Comprehensive Source for Substitutions, Equivalents and Cooking Tips, 1979
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Oden, Sue Barton
Sue Oden
grew up in Oak Hill in
Davidson County and was part of the first class of
Belmont
College. She and her husband, John, moved to
their farm in Thompson’s Station in 1970 and reared their two children near the
place where John’s ancestors had settled in 1813. Interested in family history
since she was a teenager, Oden has researched her family and her neighbors’
families for many years. To share her findings, she began writing a column for
a local paper. She has also been actively involved in community projects. These
two interests merged as she wrote and published History of Thompson’s Station as a
county
Bicentennial project and as a fund-raiser for the
community park.
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Oldham,
Bethenia McLemore (1867- deceased)
A brief autobiography and more lengthy diary entries published in the Williamson County Historical Society Journal
2001 tell the story of Bethenia McLemore’s childhood and teenage years in
Franklin. She was part of a large
family which took part in the town’s activities—school, church, and visits to
friends and relatives. Oden wrote a book of biographies of major men in the
state.
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Oldham, Robert K.
An internationally recognized cancer
specialist, Dr. Oldham founded the Biological Therapy Institute in
Franklin in 1984. Prior to founding BTI, he
initiated the National Cancer Institute’s Biological Response Modifier Program
and established
Vanderbilt
University’s Oncology Division. He is the author of
three books and more than 400 scientific papers.
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O'Neill, Jennifer
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jennifer O’Neill moved with her family to Connecticut and New York where her stellar career began. Well known for her acting credits, Jennifer is also an accomplished author. With a broad range of successes in modeling, movies, and TV, Jennifer had ample material for her life story which launched her writing career. While living in Williamson County, she began Jennifer O’Neill Ministries which has prompted many speaking engagements. She continues to live in the Nashville area where she raises, trains, and shows champion jumping horses.
–A Winter of Wonders, 2007
–A Late Spring Frost, 2007
–A Fall Together, 2006
–You're Not Alone, 2005
–From Fallen to Forgiven, 2004
–Surviving Myself, 1999
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O’Neill, Suzannah
Suzannah O’Neill moved to
Williamson
County in 1952 and spent her adolescence in
Franklin. She graduated from
Vanderbilt
University and
Peabody
College as a special education major. She served
as a Pan-American flight attendant on military transport charters during the
Vietnamese conflict. O’Neill married
Franklin attorney Ed Silva and began to write.
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Oosting,
Kenneth W. (1936- )
Born and reared in
Muskegon,
Michigan, Dr. Oosting received a B.A.
at the
University of
Michigan, an M.A. at
Central
Michigan
University, and a Ph.D. at the
University of
Minnesota. He was a teacher and
administrator at several colleges and Academic Dean for ten years at
Milligan
College near
Johnson City,
Tennessee. He founded a consulting
firm, which works with Christian colleges and universities around the country.
In 1996 he helped establish
Williamson
Christian
College of which he became president
and professor.
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–Strategic Planning
for Private Higher Education (with
others), 1997
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–The Christian’s
Guide to Effective Personal Management,
1997, 2003
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O'Toole, Jack
Jack O’Toole grew up in
Michigan and worked for General Motors for nineteen
years before joining Saturn in 1984. As part of the “Team of 99” who created
the model for the Saturn Corporation, he traveled widely. He was vice
president-at-large and a senior consultant for the company. He retired in 1996.
O’Toole has written many articles for research journals.
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Owen, Jane Bowman (1879-1978)
Between 1935 and 1953, Jane Owen published 900 interviews of
Williamson County residents. Her choices of
person covered every geographical part and social element of the county. The
publication of her work, now arranged in alphabetical order, is a great boon to Williamson County historians. Jane Owen was
born, educated, and lived her married life in Williamson County. She taught both elementary and high school, wrote for two newspapers—The
Williamson County News and The Review-Appeal, and worked in the
offices of the Franklin Funeral Home and Farm Bureau. With this rooted but
varied experience, she depicted the citizens of the county with an appreciative
and encompassing point of view.
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–Who’s
Who in
Williamson
County: Volume 1, A-E, (edited by Rick Warwick), 2003
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