Joan Klein Ennis
WILMINGTON Joan Klein Ennis, 91, a reluctant Southerner, died Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at The Commons At Brightmore.
Her parents, Oscar and Eleanor Klein, moved their family from Union, New Jersey, to Winston-Salem in 1946, and the Jersey teen spent a miserable senior year of high school at a place and time when Northern transplants were an unwelcome rarity.
She got through it, though, armed with a disarming smile and inner strength that would endure throughout her life.
Her view of the South mellowed along with her accent. It improved dramatically when she met her true love, Vernon “Red” Ennis, at High Point College. They married and raised three sons, Michael, David and Gary, in Salisbury.