Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Moroni Taylor George
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Mac George
- Moroni T, George
- Chief Yellowbird
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
d. 2009 November 03
History
Moroni Taylor "Mac" George was a Navy veteran of World War II, and is believed to be the first Catawba to ever serve as a police officer. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was also a star of the small-town wrestling circuit, where he competed as "Chief Yellowbird." He married his wife, Evelyn McAbbe George, in 1945, while on a 3-day pass from the Navy, and after the war they moved to York, Sc, where Mac worked at cotton mills and service stations, wrestling on the side, until he joined the City of York Police in 1964, where he served for 23 years.