Background
Cannaday, Charles Wesley was born on November 26, 1924 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. Son of Daniel Elija and Ola Blanche (Decker) Cannaday.
Cannaday, Charles Wesley was born on November 26, 1924 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. Son of Daniel Elija and Ola Blanche (Decker) Cannaday.
Student, St. Olaf College, 1944; student, University Missouri, 1945-1946; student, North-East Missouri State University, 1951-1952; student, Washington University, 1961; student, University Minnesota, 1966-1967.
Sales representative Kirsville (Missouri) Radio & Electric, 1947-1957. Insurance executive Travelers Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut, 1957-1977. Insurance agent Indiana Agency, Kirsville, since 1977.
Instructor Life Underwriters Training Council, St. Louis, 1960-1964, Duluth, Minnesota, 1966, A.D. Banker & Company, Columbia, Missouri, 1986-1988, 90.
Creator development program American Red Cross, 1987-1988, 91, also disaster trainer. Board directors Private Industry Council, Job Training Partnership Act, Adair County, Missouri, since 1983, vice president, 1989-1990, chairperson, since 1991. Elder Presbyterian Church.
Fellow Life Underwriters Council. Member Society California Lutheran Universities (board directors 1983-1987), Life Underwriters Association (president 1980-1981), Kirksville Junior Chamber of Commerce (president 1956-1967), Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce (president 1952-1953), United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (international life, vice president midwest region 1953-1954), American Legion (Commander 1984-1988), Masons, Shriners.
Married Natalie Joyce Miller. Children: charles Miller, Jeffrey Scott.