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John Idol
Percy Idol
With a total of 80 years of sales of multiple
millions of dollars worth of Adams-Millis hosiery,
John and Percy Idol retired from their positions
in Adams-Millis Hosiery Company's sales de
partment on December 31. John had been with
the company since 1932 and Percy's sales ca
reer began just two years later.
The Idol boys were born in Davidson County
and attended High Point Senior High School; both
attended and graduated from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John worked his
way through the university by decorating struc
tures for special occasions and had accumulated
a $900. 00 bank account by the time he graduated.
When he came to Adams-Millis in 1932 to work
in sales, the late J. H. Adams learned of the
bank account and told John he should have stayed
in the university instead of getting in the sock
business. John came with the company as a sales
assistant under the late R. O. Lindsay; after
three or four years in the office, he moved out
to cover sales in the Ohio Valley and a short
while later was assigned to the Southeastern
States. He covered this territory until his re
tirement.
John lives at the ninety-year-old Idol home
place on Route 1, Kernersville; he is a member
of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in High Point.
Percy Idol joined the sales department of
Adams-Millis in 1934, just after his graduation
from U. N. C. ; his sales territory included the
Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley States. During
World War II, he was on a four-year military
leave to serve as an intelligence officer with the
U. S. Coast Guard.
He is married to the former Lillian SmalL
daughter of Judge and Mrs. Walter L, Small of
Elizabeth City, N. C. There are two sons: David
H. Idol, assistant district attorney for the 18th
Judicial District; and Walter S, Idol, a second-
year law student at Southern Methodist Univer
sity.
Percy and Mrs. Idol also are members of
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, and they make
their home on Hillcrest Drive in High Point.
At the age of 15,
Lula Elliott came to work
at Adams-Millis Corpo
ration in Kernersville.
Fifty-two years later, on
December 31, 1973, she
retired from the greige
goods department where
she had been continuously
employed as a turner and
yarn checker since 1934.
And much has happened to
her in her forty years of Lula Shore
continuous employment, perhaps the most impor
tant thing being a plant romance that led to her
marriage to Paul Shore, of the sample depart
ment of the Kernersville plant. They now have
one son and two grandchildren,
Lula was born and reared in Kerner svill®
and attended Kernersville schools. She is a
life-long member of the Kernersville Moravian
Church. Now that she will have a lot of spare
time, she will be able to do even more of the
baking that she loves to do for her neighbors and
friends.
Upon her retirement, Lula stated it had been
a great pleasure to have worked with a company
like Adams-Millis and that she values greatly the
many friendships she has made there.
“Let’s go out and visit somebody before they come and
visit us!”