Heywood fralin biography of michaels

William Heywood Lee Fralin was born in 1940, in Union Hall Virginia. The youngest of three boys, Heywood was named for writer Heywood Hale Broun.  It was his mother’s desire to give all three sons strong names.  Mrs.

Fralin was from Scruggs, Virginia and taught school in a one room Franklin County school house which is still standing and located in Explore Park.  This young teacher barely started her career when at the age of nineteen she met the man she would be married to for 50 years.   His mother was strong-willed with a great work ethic and strong belief in the virtues of an education. 

Mr.

Fralin was born in Union Hall, Virginia and with a 7^th grade education plowed the farmland around him from the age of 11 until he married at the age of 31.  Starting a new job, he followed the exodus with his wife into Roanoke to work at the silk mill later known as the American Viscose.  As Mr.

Fralin matured, he had entreprene