{"id":1018,"date":"2016-05-02T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:25:48","slug":"deloach-altha-thompson-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"DeLOACH, ALTHA THOMPSON, 1915-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher. Born&#8211; May 18, 1915, Cleburne County. Parents&#8211; George Henry and Naomi (Hicks) Thompson. Married&#8211; Thomas Earl DeLoach, June 25, 1938. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Attended Livingston State Teachers College, 1934-1936; Jacksonville State University; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1954; the University of Alabama in Birmingham, M.A., 1973. Served as secretary for national defense classes for Randolph County Board of Education, 1941-1942; taught school in Autauga County, 1936-1938; Etowah County, 1950-1975. Edited State Kappan. Member and president of Etowah Classroom Teachers and of Etowah County Retired Teachers. Member of the Advisory Councils for Walnut Grove&#8217;s Nutrition Programs and for East Alabama Commission on Aging. Delegate to England for the John Wesley Tour and for the 13th World Methodist Conference, Dublin, Ireland. Named Walnut Groves&#8217;s Senior Citizen of the Year. Named to Alabama Senior Citizen Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Died September 7, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Altha DeLoach, Walnut Grove, Ala.\u00a0 Obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facts and Fancy. Rainsville, Ala.; Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the Mouths of Grandkids&#8230; Happenings Across the Generations. Rainsville, Ala.; Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Things Round About. Rainsville, Ala.; Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher. Born&#8211; May 18, 1915, Cleburne County. Parents&#8211; George Henry and Naomi (Hicks) Thompson. Married&#8211; Thomas Earl DeLoach, June 25, 1938. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Attended Livingston State Teachers College, 1934-1936; Jacksonville State University; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1954; the University of Alabama in Birmingham, M.A., 1973. Served as secretary for national defense classes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}