Cordelia Spivy Sledge

Cordelia Spivey, daughter of Morgan and Frances Baird Spivy, graduated from Bonham High School. She then attended Randolph-Macon College, was a graduate of the University of Texas and earned a Masters Degree from Columbia University in New York. She taught in the New York City School System and wrote short stories based on her teaching experience that were published in Harper’s and the Saturday Evening Post. One of the short stories was made into a 1955 movie, “This Could Be the Night.”

She regularly returned to Bonham to visit with her parents.

She is buried with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.

Her father, Morgan Spivy, was the president of Bonham State Bank from 1931 – 1958.