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Mar 11, 2025 Biographies

Mrs. Walker was the loving wife of the Urias L. Walker and the dearest mother of Dr. Jacqueline Walker Ray, Mrs. Walker was the Head Nurse at 1 East at Millard Fillmore Hospital from 1964 until her re...

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Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson

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Jan 25, 2024 Biographies

Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson was born in Buffalo, New York on October 6, 1933. She is the eighth child of eleven children born to Ernest and Isabell McGriff. At the age of 9 years old, the president of ...

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Winford A. Quick MD

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Mar 25, 2023 Biographies

Winford A. Quick, M.D. is the Medical Director at the General Motors Corporation, Powertrain Division's Tonawanda Engine Plant. His responsibility is to provide quality medical care to the 1,800 plus ...

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Mildred Irene Seals Wiggins

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Dec 3, 2022 Biographies

Mildred Seals Wiggins is a native of Alexandria, Louisiana. She is the oldest daughter of W.B. Seals and Nettie Mae Seals Jones. Mildred moved to Buffalo in 1947 with her father, step-mother, brothers...

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Georgia Mackie Burnette

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Mar 17, 2022 Biographies

I was a Depression baby, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1929 and fortunate to grow up surrounded by a large extended family.Because both parents worked, my mother as a domestic, my father in the steel ...

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Gloria Killian Roseboro

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Nov 22, 2021 Biographies

Colonel Roseboro is a product of the Buffalo Public Schools and graduated from D'Youville College School of Nursing in 1976. In 1984, she received a Master of Science Degree in Management and Business...

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Anthony L. Watson Sr.

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Mar 30, 2021 Biographies

Anthony L. (Tony) Watson Sr., rose from the segregated school system of Oklahoma City to compete in the Olympics and later become the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emblem Health, Inc. Born F...

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Tina Wallace Allen

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Feb 18, 2021 Biographies

Tina Allen, born Tina Wallace in Buffalo, NY November 20, 1980. Tina received her high school diploma from Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts where she majored in Music, studying violin an...

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Hollise White

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Feb 18, 2021 Biographies

Hollise is a master's prepared Registered Nurse with the Erie County Department of Health. For the past year, Hollise has stepped into various roles during the global pandemic. One role in particular ...

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Eva Melinda Bateman Noles

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Feb 1, 2021 Biographies

Mrs. Eva M. Noles is a Registered Nurse, a Nursing Educator, and a former Director of Nursing at Buffalo's world-renowned Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The first black nurse to train in Buffalo, Mrs....

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Leslie Clapp Ezie MD

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Nov 11, 2020 Biographies

Dr. Leslie E. Clapp, a Board Certified physician and clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University at Buffalo, is a graduate of Buffalo Public Schools, Oberlin College, and the Universi...

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Lydia Tura Wright

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Oct 7, 2020 Biographies

Lydia Tura Wright was born on May 5, 1922, in Shreveport, Louisiana. While still a child, Lydia and her sister, twin brothers, and mother, Parthenia Hickman Wright, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to join ...

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