I did some research recently and ran across info on Willie Reese. You see below a short article from The Fort Bend Mirror published on January 26th, 1956. I like the quote, "But you know, ma'am, people didn't live so fast when I was comin' up."
I'll have to determine when Willie retired, but you can see from this page of the 1947 Awards Program that he was a LONG-TIME employee of Imperial. They counted his service from the time he began working at Cunningham Sugar Company, so he predated the Imperial Sugar Company!
Here's the best photo of him I could find. It was taken at the 1947 Awards Banquet.
