James A. and Laura W. McDaniel donated their home on East Gordon Street for Kinston’s first hospital in 1906. It later was renamed Parrott Hospital.
Their granddaughter, Laura McDaniel Walker of Long Beach, Calif., named the hospital's new McDaniel Sleep Center in their memory.
Lenoir Memorial Foundation held an event Feb. 7 at The Bentley to thank the major donors to the hospital’s new McDaniel Sleep Center. Lenoir Memorial Hospital President and CEO Gary Black and his wife Maggie Black greeted and recognized guests, including Susan and Doug Walker, great-grandchildren of the McDaniels.