{"id":952,"date":"2017-02-23T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=952"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:01:51","slug":"cather-william-heath-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"CATHER, WILLIAM HEATH, 1918-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher. Born&#8211; November 2, 1918, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Alonzo Heath and Jennie Pearl (Johnson) Cather. Married&#8211; Virginia Ritchie, 1942. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211;Dorothy Farmer, 2001. Education&#8211;\u00a0B.A., University of Alabama, 1941. U. S, Army pilot in World War II; rose to the rank of captain.\u00a0 Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.\u00a0 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. \u00a0Died May 2, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Pat Cather, Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler_and_Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Publisher. Born&#8211; November 2, 1918, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Alonzo Heath and Jennie Pearl (Johnson) Cather. Married&#8211; Virginia Ritchie, 1942. Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211;Dorothy Farmer, 2001. Education&#8211;\u00a0B.A., University of Alabama, 1941. U. S, Army pilot in World War II; rose to the rank of captain.\u00a0 Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.\u00a0 Joined the A. H. Cather Publishing Company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}