CityView Magazine

10 | March/April 2015 publisher's note 910.777.3363 4120 Cumberland Road • Fayetteville, NC Sunrooms. Patio Enclosures. Room Additions We Of fer More De signs, Options & Size s Than Anyone Else! EXPAND YOUR LIVING SPACE! Enclose Your Existing 14'x12' Porch Into Year Round Use For Only $4995 What's precious to you is precious to us. SM Auto. Home. Life. Retirement. They all matter, so wrap them all in a blanket of Nationwide® protection. We put members first, because we don't have shareholders. SM Join the Nation® that knows what's important. Combine your policies and save up to 25% Not all Nationwide affiliated companies are mutual companies and not all Nationwide members are insured by a mutual company. Nationwide, the Not all Nationwide affiliated companies are mutual companies and not all Nationwide members are insured by a mutual company. Nationwide, the Not all Nationwide affiliated companies are mutual companies and not all Nationwide members are insured by a mutual company. Nationwide, the Nationwide N and Eagle Join the Nation, What's precious to you is precious to us and We put members first because we don't have shareholders are Nationwide N and Eagle Join the Nation, What's precious to you is precious to us and We put members first because we don't have shareholders are service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. © 2014 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. NPR-0718AO 8/14) service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. © 2014 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. NPR-0718AO.2 (8/14) service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. © 2014 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. NPR-0718AO.2 (8/14) worthw@nationwide.com Phone: (910)488-5056 WALKER WORTH AGENCY Walker Y Worth, III What's precious to you is precious to us. SM Auto. Home. Life. Retirement. They all matter, so wrap them all in a blanket of Nationwide ® protection. We put members first, because we don't have shareholders. SM Join the Nation ® that knows what's important. Combine your policies and save up to 25% Walker Y Worth, III WALKER WORTH AGENCY Phone: (910)488-5056 worthw@nationwide.com Not all Nationwide affiliated companies are mutual companies and not all Nationwide members are insured by a mutual affiffiliated company. Nationwide, the Nationwide N and Eagle Join the Nation, What's precious to you is precious to us and We put members fifirst because we don't have shareholders are service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. © 2014 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. NPR-0718AO.2 (8/14) O ur March issue is featuring our local women in business. When I think about women in business there are three main women in my life that were excellent: my wife, my mother and my wife's grand- mother. Sandee Waren, whom I have been married to for 46 years has helped me run several of my businesses. We were in the in- surance administration business for 24 years and my wife worked with me there for most of that time running a key department that was essential to our organization. It required intelligence and organizational skills in order to succeed and she has all those qualities. She now is the man- aging editor of CityView, which is an important job. She is great at helping choose stories that will be of interest to our readers and is an excellent proof reader. I have been blessed to have her at my side all these years. Mary Yarborough, Sandee Waren and Helen Waren My mother was an independent person and ran a business that my parents and several friends started in 1958 in our home. Mother ran the operation from our house for two years until it was obvious it was going to succeed. She was operating the day to day tasks of an automobile insurance premium fi- nance business and raising me and my brother at the same time. My mother was the youngest of eight children, growing up in Wake Forest, NC and liv- ing through the Great Depression. She graduated from high school and im- mediately went to work for Western Union. Due to her business acumen, she was given the chance to go to New Jersey to run an office at only 18-years- old. After a year there she was transferred to Fayetteville and the rest is his- tory. When a group of my parents' friends were discussing investing in the new business, several of the men said they would put their money in the deal if my mother was involved. She helped get the venture off the ground and it became highly successful, later being sold to a national company in 1974. My wife's grandmother was all business, but was raised a farm girl in Grays Creek. When she married Wilson Yarborough they became business partners as well as life partners. They operated several businesses together to include Yarborough Motor Company, where the current county jail is located. Their first business was a gas station on Raeford Road near Zorba's. Back in the 1930s that area was considered way outside of Fayetteville because Raeford Road was only two lanes. They lived in the back of the station while operating it for a few years. Mrs. Yarborough always looked after the bookkeeping. They grew suc- cessful together. My mother died in 2008 and Mrs. Yarborough died in 2009.Wonderful, impor- tant lessons were learned from these great women in my life. I hope you enjoy reading about women in Fayetteville who are now blazing the trail.

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