| Summary: | Entrepreneur and civic leader Mary Cherry was born Mary Cornelia Kyle March 18, 1924, in Manteo, Virginia. Her family moved from Virginia to Tarrytown, New York, in 1926. Cherry attended F.R. Pearson Elementary School and graduated from Washington Irving High School in 1942. At the height of World War II, Cherry found employment at Eastern Aircraft for two years, then working briefly for Reader's Digest. In 1946, Cherry married Lamon Q. Cherry and soon relocated to her husband's hometown of Ossining, New York. There, Mary was employed with the Frank Novelty Company. For years she helped neighborhood teens, especially from the African American community, find seasonal work and after school jobs with the company. Cherry and her husband retired after thirty years with Frank's Novelty, Co. Cherry's daughter Rose Q. Cherry documented part of the family's history in The Cherry Outlaw Families of Bertie County, North Carolina, which was published in 2004.
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