User:Jarrial/Jarrial (Jerry) Stokes

Jarrial (Jerry) Stokes. Born January 14, 1923, Charlott, North Carolina. Served in US Navy during World War II in the South Pacific. Returned to Charlotte with Hornorable Discharge and Married Margaret Sawyer Reed in 1948 and has one child Sandra Lee Stokes born April 28, 1950 and she has two children, Robert Andrew and Elizabeth Lindsey. Andy is a Astract Artist and Elizabeth is in College to become a Doctor. Jerry worked at Krispy Kreme, an Auto Finance Company, and opened a Used Car Lot, The Car Market, and founded United, Inc., at 1201 N. Tryon Street in the 1970s and in 1979 was hired as the Executive Director of the Carolinas Independent Automobile Dealers Association (CIADA) and retired in 1984 to organize the North Carolina Pawnbrokers Association and published the Today's Pawnbroker that he sold to a New York Publisher. In 1989 he organized the North Carolina Automotive Leasing Association and was Executive Director until he retired and founded the National Barbecue Association and the National Flea Market Association in 1998 where he was Executive Director until 2003. At 80 years old, he became a webmaster promoting Flea Markets on his website www.findafleamarket.com and small business on his website www.CharlotteBusiness.net. In 2011 he began websites to promote the Democratic National Convention that would be held in September 2012.