Nettie Hinton was a friend of Prudence Curry. Ms. Curry was her girlhood librarian in the 1940s. This is a photo of her attending a storytime with Prudence Curry, with Ms. Curry standing to the far right.
A nephew, Juan Montier III, who today makes his living as a restauranteur recalled a particularly difficult time during his boyhood when Prudence Curry stepped in to keep him on the straight and narrow. Curry, then retired after a lengthy career in…