Name: James Jackson Griffith Jr
Birth Date: 8 Sep 1914
Birth Place: High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States of America
Death Date: 6 Feb 2012
Death Place: Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States of America

COLUMBIA - A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3200 Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC 29204. Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, is assisting the family with arrangements.

James was born in High Point, NC, September 8, 1914, to James Jackson Griffith Sr. and Lil Isabel Myers Griffith. Raised in Kernersville, NC, he graduated from North Carolina State College in 1935. In 1941, he married Elizabeth Hamilton of Dallas, TX. They were married for 59 years until her death in 2000. During World War II, he served in the 407th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, successfully completing 26 missions as a B17 pilot and squadron commander while stationed in England. During this time, he was awarded the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Post-war, James was employed by and retired from Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport, TN. James was an avid gardener, and many appreciated his prize-winning roses.

Predeceased by his wife, and son, Hugh Ware, James is survived by daughter, Betsy Miller (L. Fred) of Columbia, SC; and son, James Jackson Griffith III (Bete) of Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil and grandchildren, James Miller (Yolanda) of Glendora, CA, Susan Miller of San Francisco, CA, Angela Maciel Detweiler (Drew) of Mountain View, CA, James Maciel Griffith (Carrie) of Lenoir, NC, and Allan Maciel Griffith of Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and three great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Laurel Crest Endowment Trust, 100 Joseph Walker Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169. www.caughmanharmanfuneralhome.net

Published in The State on February 9, 2012

Call Sign: W4FUF, Grant Date: 12/08/1997, Expiration Date: 12/08/2007, Cancellation Date: 12/09/2009, Registrant: James J Griffith Jr, 4404 Timberlake Ln, Kingsport, TN 37664

For quite some time I have been collecting old QSL cards from Forsyth County. Usually I look for the 1920s and 1930s but I also perk up for cards from any FARC ham. Recently I acquired a couple from J. J. (Jim) Griffith. Hmm, I wonder if he was related to David Griffith, WA4MKK? It seems that Jim in 1963 gave a then 12-year-old David a Utah transmitter. David was a newly licensed novice. David tells me that Jim lived here in Winston and moved to Kingsport, TN in the 1970s or so. There Jim became friends with Dick Hattaway, K4PKV, another friend of mine. Seems like it is a small world, though I never met J.J. One card is from 1950 and is from Winston-Salem. The earlier card is from 1939, apparently a younger J. J. operating from Kingsport, TN.

in 1939, signed: 'Jimmey'


in 1950, signed: 'Jim'

From the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club Inc. Newsletter - October, 2016