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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Juanita Winrow Davis is referred to as an Oklahoma Community Service Pioneer because of her ability to lead others. Born in a little town called Earlsboro, Oklahoma, on December 8, 1921 to Jackson and...

Earlsboro OK United States

Vonzell Walker Murrell Solomon

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Vonzell was born in November of 1961 in Enid, Oklahoma. The daughter of Palmor Jean (Mitchell) Solomon and Anthony Leo Solomon and (biological father ) Johnny Murrell. Ms Solomon has enjoyed loving re...

Enid OK United States

Natosha Cummings Price

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Natosha Cummings-Price is a native from Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is the granddaughter of Naomi Cummings a Chouteau, Oklahoma native. In 1991, Natosha graduated from Muskogee High School and attended Ce...

Muskogee OK United States

Freddie Foshee Cudjoe

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Freddie Foshee graduated from Sapulpa high school in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and dreamed of a future as a nurse. Her grandmother, who was the family muse, and who recited poetry for the children each night,...

OK Sapulpa United States

Dorothy Lee Cooks

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Dorothy Lee Cooks, the daughter of Arthur and Jessie Lee Ervin Cooks, was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie County in 1948. Dorothy has eleven siblings. She is a graduate of Macomb High School. ...

OK Shawnee United States

Bernice Davis Caldwell

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Bernice C. Caldwell, the third child of Ernest Davis and Eva Smith Davis, was born on the 21st of February 1925. On this date, she began a life of dedication and sacrifice to her religion, family and ...

OK United States

Zora Brown Rowland

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Zora Brown is Special Assistant for Health and Minority Initiatives at INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is responsible for coordinating the Business Health Leadership Institute; the Oklah...

OK Oklahoma City United States

Valerie Inez Parker Carolina

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Valerie Inez Parker Carolina, the daughter of Thedford and Myrtle Parker, was born on May 19, 1917, in Spiro, Oklahoma. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and received deg...

OK Spiro United States

Anna Brown

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Anna Jean Brown was born in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. She is one of 11 children, who were raised by an aunt and uncle after the death of their mother. Anna attended a one room school house in the county be...

Earlsboro OK United States

Eva Gallimore Boyd

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Eva Lou Boyd is the oldest of eight children born to Dallas Andrew and Hattie Lavonia Gallimore. Her parents were avid believers in education and encouraged their children to set goals and work to ach...

OK United States

JoAnn Greene Grove-Bowler

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Jo Ann S. Grove Bowler was born in Oklahoma City, OK on April 3, 1939. She was the second of seven children, having three brothers and three sisters, born to Leroy and Lucille Greene. She became inter...

OK Oklahoma City United States

Wandalene Brady Black

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Wandalene Black was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Mable Griffin and Walter Brady. She joined the Girl Scouts when she was eight years old, and started baking cakes to sell at age 12. Since many p...

OK Oklahoma City United States