May I introduce myself to you. I am 87 years old and been a webmaster for over ten year.  Mostly for Flea Markets and Small Businesses.  My mission is to provide quality websites and Internet services for an affordable annual fee.

I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in January 14, 1923 and hope to live until the year 2023.  The Streets were not paved (dirt) within six blocks of the square.   I was borne on 900 block of North Pine near 11th Street.

I have lived in Charlotte all my life except four years in the U.S. Navy, I spent two of the four in the South Pacific, and was with the first offense battle at Tarawa.

In 1944 when I returned to Charlotte, I met my wife Peggy Reed that lived within six block of where I lived before I went in the Navy and we had never met until I returned from service.

We were married in 1948 and have only one child, Sandra, was born in 1950 married to Wayne Montague.  Wayne is an only child, so their children have no aunts or uncles or first cousins.  She is the Minister of Families and Children at the First Baptist Church of Charlotte and she has a son, Andy, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

After I returned to Charlotte, I worked as a car repo man for a finance company, a Bell Hope at the Hotel Charlotte, and a news butch on the train from Charlotte to Washington, D.C., then opened a used car lot on North Tryon at 11th Street.  I took a job as Executive Director for the Carolinas Independent Auto Dealers Association from about 1979 until 1984.  Then I organized the N.C. Pawnbrokers Association and published a magazine, Today's Pawnbroker and sold it to a New York Publishing Firm.

Then, I found the National Flea Market Association and was executive director until 2002 and retired to start a website business for small businesses.

I developed websites to promote websites, such as www.CharlotteBusiness.net to promote small businesses in Charlotte, and www.FindaFleaMarket.com to promote the Flea Market Industry.

Now, I am helping a lady promote a Wholesale Newspaper, www.WholesaleNewspaperOnline.com and have developed www.GreaterTradeSolutions.com to promote www.GreatTradeSolutions.com

After being married to Peggy for 62 years, she wants me to slow down,
but I don't know how.

I have a sign over my computer that says "The day we cease to dream is the day we begin to die." and I am not ready to die. 

  
                                                   God Bless - Jerry Stokes