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- Wayne attended Mountain View School, Appalachian Training school and N.C. State College, class of 1928. He worked for Reynolds Tobacco Company for thirty-three years beginning in 1931, as a salesman in Bluefield, West Virginia. In 1936, he became division manager In Evansville, Indiana. From 1941 to 1943 he was assistant department manager of the Winston-Salem department and in 1943, he became department sales manager for New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and parts of Maryland and Ohio. He maintained offices in Philadelphia and New York.
In 1952 he returned to Winston Salem to do general staff work and traveled throughout the United States for Reynolds. He became field sales coordinator for them in June 1956 and continued working in that capacity until his death June 23, 1964.
Wayne Eller was a member of the Masonic Order, Phi Pi Phi Fraternity, the Presbyterian Church, Oldtown Club of Winston-Salem, and was active in the Chamber of Commerce. His hobbies were sports, woodworking and gardening." (C.B. Eller and Libby Eller Booke, The Heritage of Wilkes County, 1982, p. 131-132. [1]
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