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Aug 4, 2024 Biographies

Out of northern Alabama, from a small community came a giant of a man, Florence's native son, a gift lent to the world. The Reverend Dr. Bennett Walker Smith, Sr. was a world-renowned evangelist, havi...

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Minnie L. Woods Harris

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Jul 30, 2024 Biographies

Minnie L. Woods was born on December 31, 1932, in Thomasville, Alabama. She is the oldest of eight children born to the late Mr. Collins and Mrs. Bertha Woods. She received her early education in Mobi...

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Paul Woods

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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

It is Black History Month, and today we salute Living Black History. Mr. Paul Woods, a World War II veteran, fought in the Pacific Theater earning three Bronze Stars and a Liberation of the Philippine...

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Johnnie Mae Bolden Mayo

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Mar 28, 2023 Biographies

Johnnie M. Mayo is the oldest of seven children. Her family increased by four when cousins were introduced following the loss of her maternal aunt. As a sixteen-year-old high school student, Johnnie b...

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Annie Nixon Singleton

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Mar 13, 2023 Biographies

There are many well-known and accomplished African Americans buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The list is long and impressive. One of the lesser known people is a woman named Annie Singleton, who at th...

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Mary Ruth Morrow Kapsiak

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Feb 5, 2022 Biographies

Mary Ruth Kapsiak began her career as a NYNEX Corporation Customer Service Representative employed in Business Marketing. She served as Chairperson of the Upstate Telephone Commercial Union and served...

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Barbara LaFrance Cooke Williams

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Nov 17, 2020 Biographies

Barbara LaFrance Cooke Williams was born on June 23, 1940 in Anniston, Alabama. The daughter of Grady and Anna Mae (Green) Cooke. Her bright and bubbly personality caused her to be known as "Cookie; S...

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Marshall Davis Miles

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Aug 14, 2020 Biographies

Marshall Davis Miles was born in Demopolis, Alabama in 1905. He was one of six children of Hattie Marshall Miles and Walter Miles. He came to Buffalo as a child in 1919 and attended Hutchinson Central...

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Johnson C. Wells

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Nov 3, 2019 Biographies

Second Lieutenant Johnson C. Wells was a Tuskegee airman whose death cut short a promising life. He is considered a Buffalo war hero and is memorialized by the VFW Post that bears his and another war ...

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Mahala Louise Parker Snell Stewart

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Jul 12, 2019 Biographies

Mahala Louise Stewart was born on July 3, 1916 in Shorter, Alabama. She was the youngest of eight children born to Professor Samuel M. Parker and Nora Hayes Parker. She was preceded in death by all of...

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Maggie Martin Sneed L.P.N.

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Mar 25, 2019 Biographies

Maggie Sneed was born in Tuscaloosa, AL to Frank and Pinkie Martin, The oldest of five children, she learned at an early age what is was like service others by helping her parents tend to her siblings...

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Annie N. Lawrence Robinson

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Mar 23, 2019 Biographies

Annie N. (Lawrence) Robinson, known loving as Ann, was born August 23, 1920, in Selma, Alabama. She was an only child born to Henry and Beatrice (Bryant) Lawrence. After a very short illness, Ann depa...

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