Mildred and her husband James moved to the Dayton area from Spain in 1967, when he got an Air Force transfer to the Defense Electronics Supply Center in Kettering.
It was then she began a morning newspaper subscription that continues 52 years later.
“Of course, I watch news on television,” Mildred Preyor added. “But I get a more in-depth and more of a local slant on stories with reading the Dayton Daily News.
“I had favorite sections. But my husband enjoyed it so much. He would read it cover to cover,” she said. James was transferred to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after DESC closed in the 1990s, and passed away in 1998.
The Preyors had two sons and three daughters – Lamar, Dawn, James, Burlis and Inez - all “avid readers,” she said. And through moves from Riverside to Trotwood to Huber Heights, the daily newspaper subscription was a constant, Mildred Preyor said.
And her reading priorities haven’t changed, she said.
“First I read the headlines, second I read the sports section,” she said.
“I know it’s strange for an old lady. But I had five children and all except for my baby girl were really invested in track or the boys football. So I liked reading their accomplishments.”
Lamar’s name made the paper again last month. A track and field star who died in 2007 at the age of 50 , Lamar was inducted last month into the first class of the Trotwood-Madison High School athletic hall of fame.
To finish the 120th year of the Dayton Daily News this month we are featuring stories of some of our lifelong subscribers. Read them all at DaytonDailyNews.com
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