She sang at Harry S. Truman's birthday, during his presidential campaign throughout the Midwestern United States.
[1] At Drake University in June 1950, Winston had one of the top rankings at a music festival that was hosted by The Des Moines Register.
[3][4][2] Winston was born in Iowa to Effie and Reverend E. P. Green in 1911 as part of a Baptist household.
Winston had no siblings and moved between pastorates as a teenager while studying to become a concert pianist.
[1] She married Clyde Melvin Winston, who worked at John Morrell, in 1936.