Wedding announcement (upper left), in engraved script:

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lockwood Fitz Simons announce the marriage of their daughter Margarita Consuelo to Mr. Donald McKay Allston on Saturday, the twenty-first of June Nineteen hundred and forty-seven Hendersonville, North Carolina

[Note: the engraved card spells the family name “Fitz Simons” as two words. The bride Margarita Consuelo is the daughter of Frank Lockwood FitzSimons Sr. of Hendersonville. The bridegroom Donald McKay Allston is Donald McKay Allston Jr. — son of Mary Annie “Minnie” FitzSimons and Donald McKay Allston Sr. of Charleston (Mary Annie being the compiler Amy’s sister) — making this a first-cousins marriage tying the Hendersonville and Charleston FitzSimons branches together.]

Pencilled note (upper right, on a folded card):

Photographs to be mounted in book

Newspaper clipping (center right), dated “Jan. 10, 1974”:

Frank FitzSimons Named To Post at Northwestern

Frank L. FitzSimons, Jr. has been named vice-president of Northwestern Bank, according to an announcement made today by William E. McGee, Executive Vice President.

The appointment is effective Feb. 1.

FitzSimons, since 1962, has been associated with Mountain Production Credit Association and presently serves as vice-president and manager of the Hendersonville office of Farm Credit Service, a farm credit cooperative with loans of seven and a half million dollars in Henderson County.

In addition to his background in the field of farm finance, FitzSimons is experienced in general farming, soil conservation, education, and fair and exposition management.

Prior to his association with P.C.A. he served for seven years as an agricultural engineer with the U.S.D.A. He was in charge of all SCS services in Polk County.

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all phases of community life. He is a past president of the Henderson County Agriculture Workers Council; the Henderson County Beef Cattle Club; the North Carolina Apple Festival; the Kiwanis Club, and past master of the Dana Grange.

He has served as an officer with the United Fund, Chamber of Commerce, Blue Ridge Apple Growers Association, N.C. Apple Growers Association, W.N.C. Fair Association, Boy Scouts of America and is a past member of the Henderson County Board of Education.

He was given the Henderson County Demonstration Farmer Award for 1965 to the outstanding businessman for service to agriculture.

At the present time, FitzSimons serves as a Trustee of Blue Ridge Technical Institute, and vice-chairman and trustee of the Henderson County Public Library.

FitzSimons was born and reared in Henderson County, the son of Frank and Maggie FitzSimons. He is married to the former Mildred Jones Priest; they have two sons and three daughters.

FitzSimons graduated from Hendersonville High School in 1942 and entered the U.S. Navy, serving as a gunners mate aboard a PT boat in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon his discharge, he entered Clemson University and graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1949.

He served as a teacher at Dana High School for six years, primarily in the field of Vocational Agriculture. He was also in charge of the Veteran Farm Training Program for Henderson and Transylvania counties.

FitzSimons has been active in

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[Portrait captioned FRANK FITZSIMONS, JR.]

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