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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

Born Mary Butler in Birmingham Alabama, she and her family moved to Lackawanna in 1941. In the early 1950s Mrs. Workman was active with Friendship House in Lackawanna and joined with other members of ...

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Palmer E. Kimball, Jr.

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Aug 11, 2011 Biographies

Palmer E. Kimball, Jr. was a three time commander of the Bennett-Wells American Legion Post 1780. He was a native of Sheffield, Alabama and came to Buffalo as a child. He graduated from Burgard High S...

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Emmitt Milhouse

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Aug 10, 2011 Biographies

Mr. Milhouse was a native of Browns, Alabama He was a veteran of the US Army and served in World War II and came to Buffalo in 1955. He founded Bell's Taxi with his brothers and was company president....

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Aviva Merritt

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Aug 7, 2011 Biographies

While working evenings as a Nursing Aide in 1958, Aviva attended Nursing School and became a Licensed Practical Nurse, thus beginning her career at Buffalo Children's Hospital. At the time, there were...

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Luke Brown

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Aug 4, 2011 Biographies

Luke Brown was a businessman, who owned three taverns. He also worked for the Niagara Frontier Transit Authority. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama and moved to Buffalo as a child with his family. He...

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Joshua Ferguson

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Aug 3, 2011 Biographies

Mr. Ferguson was the owner of the Ferguson Beauty Supply Company on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, NY. He was born in Evergreen, Alabama, where he learned barbering at a very young age. He moved to Buff...

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Joseph White

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Aug 2, 2011 Biographies

Joseph White was the son of Evelyn Griffin and Joseph Sidney White. He was born on December 28, 1933. He successfully completed his secondary education at Birmingham, Alabama's Immaculata High School ...

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Bertha Hall Amos

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Jun 27, 2011 Biographies

Bertha Hall Amos was born on October 5, 1903. She was the eldest of three children born to Washington and Lula Green Hall in Moundville, Alabama. Bertha Hall met and married Harrison Amos in 1921. Aft...

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Evie L. Jackson Davis

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Evie L. Davis (nee Jackson) was born July 31, 1925 in the rural papermill town of Lamison, Alabama to proud parents, Maggie and Mallie Jackson. Evie's mother, Maggie, was a domestic worker and her fat...

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Queen Woods

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Queen Esther Woods was born March 27, 1922 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She attended Central High School. She arrived in Buffalo in 1942. She is the mother of nine children and attends Mt. Olive Missionary...

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Shirley Johnson Walker

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Shirley Johnson Walker, youngest of nine children, was born in Alabama to James A. and Georgia Johnson. She was among the first to integrate the local junior high and county high school, thus bussing ...

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Lucille Colston Hicks

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Jun 19, 2011 Biographies

First and foremost I would just like to say I am blessed and truly thankful for God giving me a grandmother like Lucille C. Hicks. She gives me inspiration to be a better person and also is able to br...

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