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He joined the U.S. Navy in 1917 was a Marksman and saw action in the Atlantic as a Gunner’s Mate on the USS Fanning, a Destroyer. After World War I, George managed the general store on Sun Up Plantation in Northeast Arkansas. In the early 1920’s he settled in Black Oak, Arkansas working for Ritter and Bailey Mercantile Company. He married Zepha Rogers, a school teacher from Jonesboro, Arkansas: they had three children, Billy, Sarah and Bobby. When the United States joined the allied forces in World War II, George signed up again, this time as a Chief Petty Officer, one of the Navy’s highest ranking non-commissioned officers in the newly formed Seabees (Navy Corps of Engineers). After World War II, he opened Cunningham’s General Merchandise Store in Black Oak; the first in town to use shopping carts. He was a big coffee drinker and had it packaged and sold under the name “Cunningham’s Lovely.” On Saturday nights he would show a movie on an outdoor screen on a vacant lot he owned which was directly across the street from the store. Farmers and families could come into town, see a free show, and do their shopping at Cunningham’s. He loved Black Oak and served on the School Board, w

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