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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Laura Pleasant was born in Dayton, Ohio to Aaron and Thelma Griffin on November 16, 1937. The family moved to Niagara Falls, New York when Laura was four years old and her older brother, Logan Alfred ...

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Bloneva Althea Pride Bond

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Bloneva Althea Pride Bond was born September 11, 1918, in Daytona Beach Florida to the late David and Arabella Pride. She was the second of three children and the only girl. Bloneva was raised in a lo...

Daytona Beach Education FL United States

Rosie Lee Thomas

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Rosie Lee was born in Cedars, Warren County, Mississippi. Rosie, the youngest of the six children born to Anna Stewart Pinkney Owens, has a divergent background. Anna's father, Dennis Pinkney and Anna...

Business Cedars MS United States

Dessie Alicia Woolfolk Hinto

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Dessie Alicia Woolfolk Hinto was born in Richmond, VA and married John Santos Hinto of Bravo, Cape Verde Islands, Portugal, the son of a pharmacist. She gave birth to her only child, Belmira Hinto Les...

Business Richmond United States VA

Henry Harrison Lewis III

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Henry Harrison Lewis, III was the son of Henry Harrison Lewis, Jr. and Susie Binga Lewis. The younger Lewis was a native of Buffalo. Lewis attended the University at Buffalo where he earned a degree i...

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Henry Harrison Lewis Jr.

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Henry Harrison Lewis, Jr. was a native of Buffalo was born circa June 1862. During the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Lewis was appointed to the Committee of Comfort. The Committee was created by the B...

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Belmira Hinto Lester Harris

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Belmira was born to the proud parents of Dessie Alicia Woolfolk of Richmond, VA and John Santos Hinto of Bravo, Cape Verde Islands, Portugal in April of 1932. Belmira attended local Catholic and publi...

Rosetta E. Monique Smith

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Rosetta E. "Monique" Smith was born January 28, 1953 in Cleveland Ohio. She is the eldest of five siblings. In her first decade of life, Rosetta witness in living color strict Jim crow laws, school se...

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Ora B. Felts

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Ora was born March 1, 1927 in Repton, Alabama, the daughter of the late James and Caroline (Lindsey) Felts. Ora was Valedictorian of Bethlehem Industrial Academy. She earned a Bachelor of Science degr...

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Clarissa Elizabeth Douglas Moore

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Clarissa Elizabeth Douglas was born April 26, 1962 in Tampa, Florida. Her grandparents, Edgar Susan Douglas, raised her on the east side of Niagara Falls. Clarissa is a 1980 graduate of Niagara Cathol...

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Josetta Ryann Chatmon R.N., B.S.N.

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Josetta R. Chatmon began her career working at the previously named, Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, as a Graduate Practical Nurse shortly after graduating from the former, Trott Vocational High Scho...

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Bennie Smith Williamson

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Bennie (Smith) Williamson was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on February 16, 1935. She was the oldest of four children born to Mack Smith (1900-1982) and Mary Elizabeth (Williams) Smith (1907-1969). B...

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