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Aug 2, 2011 Biographies

Rosalie was the daughter of William and Oralee Peoples. She was the older of two siblings. She was a native Buffalonian. A product of the Buffalo Public Schools, Rosalie attended school 6 and Lafayett...

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Irving "Bo Peep" Greene

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Aug 1, 2011 Biographies

Irving Greene was a longtime Buffalo jazz musician. As a string bass player his career spanned 50 years. He was a quiet man of small stature who was given the nickname "Bo Peep" as a youth because he ...

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Arlester Christian

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Aug 1, 2011 Biographies

Arlester "Dyke" Christian was born in Buffalo, New York on June 13, 1943. In 1965 he sang and played bass guitar with the Blazers, a backup band for the O’Jays. The group was stranded in Phoenix, Ariz...

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Pashion Corbitt Marshall

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Aug 1, 2011 Biographies

Pashion Payton Corbitt is a native of Buffalo, and a graduate of the former East High School. She received her Bachelor's of Science Degree in Pharmacy at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusett...

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Harry Kendall Strother

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Jul 26, 2011 Biographies

A native of Buffalo, New York, Harry was the son of Henry and Mary Jones Strother. He was one of four children. His siblings were Juanita, Wilbur and Martha. He was married to Jeanette Walton Strother...

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Charles Edward McGriff Sr.

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

A native Buffalonian, Charles was the ninth of eleven children. He was a 1955 graduate of Burgard Vocational High School. He served in the Army stateside, then worked in security at the General Motors...

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Willie James Dorsey

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Willie James Dorsey was a noted musician and music teacher in Buffalo. He was a native Buffalonian, who was a 1950 graduate of Fosdick-Masten Park High School. He was one of six African American stude...

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Beverly Joyce Godfrey Webb

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Beverly J. Webb was born in Buffalo, New York on December 30, 1937. She was the daughter of Ruby Godfrey and the late Alfred Godfrey. Her husband was Ronald L. Webb to whom she was married for more th...

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Thelma Keith

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Our mother is known as the diminutive dynamo. Many years ago, I remember her speaking of and praying on her vision to become the proprietor of her own shop. It was her dream to create a place where fo...

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Catherine Fisher Collins

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Catherine Fisher Collins has earned a Doctoral degree from the State University of New York's University at Buffalo, from which she had also received a Master's Degree in Allied Health Education, ...

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Theresa Juanita White

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Jul 12, 2011 Biographies

Theresa J. White was born in Buffalo, New York. Her parents, Miles and Gladys White, moved to Buffalo from Memphis, Tennessee. She had one sister, Muriel White Sobers. Theresa was a graduate of the Bu...

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Daniel Stewart Workman Jr

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Jun 28, 2011 Biographies

Daniel Stewart Workman, Jr. was a native Buffalonian. He was born on June 13, 1944 to Daniel and Elizabeth Workman. He had six siblings, four brothers, Vincent, Ronald, Rudolph and Warren and two sist...

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