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Jun 18, 2011 Biographies

Josephine H. Thompson was the sixth of eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Hunley of Deatsville, Alabama. She accepted Christ as her savior and joined the St. James Missionary Baptist Churc...

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ALvina Staley

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Alvina Staley was born in Brewton, Alabama. She came to Buffalo at the age of two. She attended School #65 and Riverside High School where she majored in General Business. Alvina continued her educati...

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Claudia Johnson Sims

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Claudia Mae Sims was born on March 6, 1907 in Anniston, Alabama. She was the daughter of Steve and Mollie Johnson. She was married to Grant Sims. The couple had two daughters, the eldest daughter; Der...

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Lexie Freeman Sanders

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Lexie M. Sanders is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. She is the second child of eight children born to W.J. and Gertrude Freeman. Lexie is the wife of the late Kelab Sanders, Jr. and from their union ...

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Ernestine Robinson

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Ernestine Robinson was born on November 10, 1940 in Town Creek, Alabama. She was the third child born to Ernest L. and Bessie Robinson, following the untimely deaths of two earlier children. Her survi...

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Juanita Carroll Pitts MD

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Juanita G. Pitts is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Englewood High School and Wilson Junior College of Chicago. She completed studies at Livingstone College in North Carolina w...

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Trudy Moses Munford

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Born and raised in Anniston, Alabama, the young Trudy Louise Moses had no inkling where life would lead her when she left home for Florida A M University. In the process of transforming from Trudy, th...

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Lois Grant

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Lois Grant is an exceptional woman. She was born in Anniston, Alabama on February 7, 1941. Having been raised by a family member other than her own mother she knows the value of maintaining a strong f...

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Myrtis Jackson

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Myrtis Jackson was born in Talladega County Alabama, where, throughout her high school years, she was raised on a farm. She received her early education in the Alabama Public School System. An honor s...

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Edna Bell Gault

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Little did Edna Bell Gault, an Alabama native, know that her life’s work would involve caring for, mentoring and teaching hundreds of children. Born on August 17, 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama to Cecei...

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Willie Fields

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Willie Mae Fields was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and moved to Niagara Falls, New York shortly after completing high school. She retired from the Carborundum Company in 1982 after 37 years of devoted ...

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Zola Lowery Crowell

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Zola Crowell is a native of Andalusia, Alabama. Her parents, the late Lester and Lurine Cauley Lowery, moved the family to Niagara Falls, New York in the early 1950s. Zola has over thirty years of wor...

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