Biography:

Publisher. Born– November 2, 1918, Birmingham. Parents– Alonzo Heath and Jennie Pearl (Johnson) Cather. Married– Virginia Ritchie, 1942. Children– Two. Married–Dorothy Farmer, 2001. Education– B.A., University of Alabama, 1941. U. S, Army pilot in World War II; rose to the rank of captain.  Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.  Joined the A. H. Cather Publishing Company as a linotype operator; rose to position of president; then chairman of the board of A. H. Cather Publishing Company in Birmingham; retired 2005.  Died May 2, 2016.

Source:

James Pat Cather, Birmingham.

Compiler_and_Editor

Gunfight at Rabaul; the True Story of an Unescorted Raid by B-25 Strafers of the 345th Bomber Group on the Japanese Stronghold of the Southwest Pacific at Rabaul, New Britain, on October 18, 1943. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather Publishing Co., 1974.