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Inductees to the 2023 Wilkes County Hall of Fame

Johnson Jay Anderson

Johnson Jay Anderson

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Highly regarded Wilkes County historian, Jay Anderson, was born May 31, 1915 to Annie McNeil Anderson in North Wilkesboro.
Dr. Alexander Erwin

Dr. Alexander Erwin

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Dr. Alexander Erwin is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. He has resided in Wilkes County for 59 years.
David Johnson

David Johnson

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Talented multi-instrumentalist David Ray Johnson was born in Wilkes County on February 11, 1954 to Billie Ray and Elizabeth Caudill Johnson.
Pete Mullis Mann

Pete Mullis Mann

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Pete Mullis Mann’s life was filled with a deep love for family, church, education and Wilkes County.
Rebecca “Beckie” Lynn Mathis

Rebecca “Beckie” Lynn Mathis

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Beckie Mathis was born in Wilkes County, parents Archie and Patsy Marie Mathis, one sister Deborah (Debbie) Summers.
David Shelton

David Shelton

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • David Shelton was born in Patrick County, Virginia and grew up as the sixth of thirteen children on a tobacco farm in rural Stokes County.

Ray Spencer Triplett

Ray Spencer Triplett

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Ray Spencer Triplett was born in Wilkes County on November 4, 1930, to Arlon and Edith Foster Triplett.

Nancy Susan Whittington

Nancy Susan Whittington

  • Year Inducted: 2023
  • Susan grew up in Wilkes County surrounded by a loving extended family, which included her parents Odell and Grace Whittington and brother Dick Whittington.