Erik Smalhout

Erik Smalhout (1926–2008) was born in Batavia, Indonesia. He was educated in Perth, Australia, and served during World War II as a librarian in the intelligence service of the 18th squadron of the Netherlands Air Force before traveling the globe as a purser with the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Steamship Corporation. He moved to Leland, Mississippi in 1949 and was an employee of the Internal Revenue Service in Charlotte, North Carolina for thirty-one years.