Delaine Tabor Fleming Delaine Tabor Fleming was born in Iredell County to the late Robert and Josie Tenor Tabor. She was one of six children and moved with her family to Davie County in the early 1930’s where they worked as sharecroppers until they moved to Rowan County to the community known as “Hawkinstown.” The Tabor family started builiding homes on the now historical Tabor Drive. Many family members of the Tabor family still reside at this location near the orginal homestead. At the early age of 9 years old, Delaine knew that she wanted to become a nurse. After graduating with honors from the Davie County Public School System, she began her nurses training at the Good Sheppard Health Clinic in Cooleemee, where her mother worked as a domestic worker. While in high school, Delaine took an interest in the country’s involvement in WWII, particularly the Cadet Nurses program. She believe that working at the clinic would help her to gain the skills she needed to become a nurse. She worked at Rowan Memorial and in 1950, she married her childhood sweetheart, Everett Fleming. She was a graduate of Community Hospital in Raleigh, N. C. Central University in Durham, completed the U.A . NHCU Supervisor Course at the University of New Hampshire in New Orleans, La.; employed by Rowan Memorial Hospital as Head Nurse in the Operating Room 1949-1955, the first African American to home this position; employed at the Kate Bidding Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem as the supervisor in the operating room; employed as a nurse at Livingstone College in Salisbury; employed as the Head Nurse in the clinic; operating and psychiatry department at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Salisbury; employed as the head nurse in the operating room at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Asheville; worked on the Legislative Committee, District VI in Rowan County; and life member of the Chi Eta Phi National Nurses Society which she was the co founder. Her research and publications include “Better Utilization of Nurse Manpower,” “Role of Registered Nurses in Durham County Out Patient Mental Health Clinic,” “Study of Descriptive Actions Implemented as a Charge Agent in Becoming a Fully Integrated Staff Member in a New Position” and location required for U. A., NHCU Supervisors. She was a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church, USA in Salisbury where she served as a member of the Presbyterian Women, Church Women United and Lend A Hand Circle. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Waymon Tabor and Thomas Tabor and two sisters, Lucy T. Brown and Mary T. Gore. She leaves to cherish the memory of her life her brother, Robert D. Tabor, Sr. of Salisbury; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, church family and dear friends.