David Bryan Herring

From Wicca Davidson:

It's a strange little story, but even though I did not know David well, I think of him every day. My family had just moved here from Canada at the very end of the 6th grade. (Not a good time to move, by the way). David sat in front of me in class. One day he and I were both raising our hands to answer a question. David was so enthusiastic that he was wildly waving his whole arm while holding a newly sharpened pencil. The pencil lead stuck me hard in my left palm and broke off. To this day I still have the piece of lead in the middle of my palm. So, though I know many others knew David much better- it is possible that I am the classmate who thinks of him the most. I don't know how he died, or even that he had, and was hoping to show him my hand at the reunion so we could both laugh about our little pencil adventure.

David on the far right with his cub scout troop

l to r: C.B. Everts, Jimmy Lasley, Frank French, Jim Waddell R.I.P., Bill Waddell (behind Jim), Stacv Wynn, David Kirkman~the younger. David

From Gary Herion:

This would be the same "David Herring" who appears in the group photo of Cub Scouts that you have recently posted whose family lived at the corner of Rolling Road and Woodhaven, several hundred yards from where Michael Esau and I lived on Old Oxford Road. I have attached here a photo taken in 1971; he is on the right, at the back of the canoe. My brother John is in the middle of the canoe. I do not remember who was sitting up front. This was taken up in the mountains of NC, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, at a cabin owned by David's grandparents. David's parents were Bill and Betty (now deceased). Bill Herring was a colleague of my dad's at Memorial Hospital / UNC Medical School in the 1960s, until he and his family moved to Greensboro around 1967 or 1968, where Bill chaired UNC's medical program out of Moses Cone Hospital. Actually, I saw Bill and Myra Beth at my parents' house about a month ago.

David graduated from high school in Greensboro around 1972. He eventually got married and had two children. Sometime in the late 1980s David committed suicide. It was very sad. My parents went to his funeral in Greensboro. They were quite close to Bill and Betty Herring.