Eldora Nuzum
Newspaper Editor and Journalist
Eldora Marie Nuzum (née Bolyard; 1926–2004) was an American newspaper editor and journalist who interviewed several United States presidents. She was born in Grafton, West Virginia to Roy Everett Bolyard (1901–1983) and Georgia Ellen (Deavers) Bolyard (1909–1994). Nuzum started her newspaper career in the 1940s at the daily newspaper, The Grafton Sentinel. In 1946 she became editor at a young age of 20 years and served in that capacity for six years.
It was 1953 when Nuzum arrived at The Inter-Mountain, also a daily newspaper produced in Elkins, West Virginia (Ogden Newspapers Inc.), where she later guided that paper as editor for 32 years. Upon her retirement in 1992, she was named Editor Emerita until her death in 2004.
Background
Born in Grafton, West Virginia to Roy Everett Bolyard (1901–1983) and Georgia Ellen Deavers Bolyard (1909–1994), Eldora Nuzum (1926–2004) had three siblings, two sisters and one brother: Vonda Jean Bolyard Norris wife of Clyde Dale Norris; Robert Glen Bolyard husband of Jacqueline Louise Westfall Bolyard; and Dr. Cassandra B. Whyte wife of William Rowland Whyte Jr.
Eldora and Jack Nuzum had two sons, Jefferson Patton Nuzum husband of Carrie Gould Nuzum and Jon Cedric Nuzum husband of Diane Raszkowski Nuzum, and two grandchildren, Lydia Ann Marie Nuzum and Derek Warren Nuzum.
Nuzum was the wife of Judge Jack Robert Nuzum (1921–1998), who was also born in Grafton, West Virginia.
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