Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wingo, Donald Courtney November 1, 1982
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Virginian Pilot, Wednesday, Nov 3,1982
Norfolk - Donald Courtney Wingo, 79, of 2612 Corpew Ave., died Monday in a 
hospital.

A native of Amelia County, he had retired as superintendent of recreation 
for the city of Norfolk. He was the bureau’s first black superintendent.

Wingo attended Hampton Institute Academy and Virginia Union University and 
received his bachelor of science degree from Virginia State College in 
Petersburg and his master of arts degree from the University of Michigan.

He was a former principal of Peabody High School in Petersburg.

After being honorably discharged from the Army as a second lieutenant in 
1942, he became personnel director of the National Youth Administration at 
Virginia State University.

During World War II he was employed by the United Service Organizations and 
directed the old Smith Street USO in Norfolk until 1948, when he was hired 
as a city recreation supervisor to work specifically with blacks. He became 
assistant superintendent of recreation in 1970.

In 1971 he was appointed superintendent of the Norfolk Recreation Bureau, 
the first black to head a major bureau in Norfolk.

He has received many honors and awards from such groups as the Norfolk 
Journal and Guide, National Recreation Society, Virginia Recreation and 
Parks Society, Daughters of Norfolk, WRAP radio station, Norfolk 
Redevelopment and Housing Authority, First Baptist Church, Chi Beta Chi Club 
and the Hunton YWCA.

His achievements included having the city accept the Smith Street USO as a 
recreation community center for blacks, the only public meeting place for 
the large community groups in the city, prior to the construction of 
Charlotte Street Recreation Center.

Wingo founded the Norfolk Youth Good Citizenship Honor Roll and sponsored 
the building of the R. H. Bowling Educational Center and the Home for the 
Aged on Park Street.

He organized the Senior Citizens Program and founded the Norfolk Recreation 
Workers Association and the Fun for Girls Movement.

He was the first black vice president of the Virginia Recreational 
Association and in 1950 attended the White House Conference on Children and 
Youth.

Wingo was a member of First Baptist Church, Bute Street, and chairman of its 
trustee board.

He was also a member of the advisory board for the National Recreation 
Association; the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority; Bo-Twenty Club 
of Petersburg; Chi Beta Chi Club; and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.

Survivors include his wife, Emma Lee Pegram Wingo, a daughter, Gloria W. 
Wallace, a brother, the Rev. James Page; and two grandchildren.

A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church, Bute 
Street, by the Revs. Jackson Brown, Joseph Green and Herbert C. Hill. Burial 
will be in Calvary Cemetery, with Hale Funeral Home in charge.

The body will be in the church at 11:30 a.m., Thursday. Memorial donations 
may be sent to the building fund of First Baptist Church, Bute Street, or to 
the American Heart Association.


Additional Comments:
Calvary Cemetery

WINGO, DONALD C	I22970 Section 23, Block 23C, Lot 9, Space S, 11/04/1982

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