Biography:

Nurse; journalist;  businesswoman. Born– April 1, 1926, Levelland, Tex. Parents– Charles Samuel and Jewell (Yeager) Lawhon. Married– Martin James Lide, November 12, 1950. Children– Three. Education– Draughon Business College; University of Texas; Jefferson Hillman School of Nursing, Birmingham, R.N., 1950. Columnist, Baldwin Times in Bay Minette, 1964-1968; columnist, Shades Valley Sun, 1974-1975; vice president, Martin Lide Associates, Birmingham, 1977-. Member– Daughters of the American Revolution; Women in Service to Alabama; Women’s Committee of 100 for Birmingham; Gorgas Board of the University of Alabama. Honors– Merit citation from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, 1961.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1981.

Publication(s):

Instead of Sunset. Birmingham, Ala.; Woodbine, 1973.

The Lawhons of Texas.  Lide, 1995.

Life of Service, These Are My Jewels. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1979.

Music in the Wind; the Story of Lady Arlington. Birmingham, Ala.; Neoma Lide, 1980.