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Aug 6, 2022 Biographies

Reverend William Gillison is a native of Beaufort, South Carolina. He was educated in the Lackawanna, New York School System. In 1967, Rev. Gillison married Antonia Davis and through this union was bo...

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Sababu C. Norris

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Aug 22, 2021 Biographies

After 31 productive years at Canisius College (since 1989), Sababu Cornell Norris retired in June 2020 as an administrator in the Division of Student Affairs where he served as director of the college...

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Zellie Dow, Sr.

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Zellie Dow, Sr. was a longtime Buffalo business owner. He was born in Camden. South Carolina. He moved to Buffalo in the early 1930s. He opened and operated the city's first black owned automobile col...

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Georgie Stokes Walker

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Mar 23, 2020 Biographies

Georgie Stokes Walker, the only child of Lucille Lee Stokes and the late James Stokes, was born February 20, 1924 in Calhoun Falls , South Carolina . She was brought to Buffalo , New York at three mon...

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Lucille Williamson Asenso Davis

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Mar 25, 2019 Biographies

On January 19, 1922, Lucille Williamson Asenso Davis was born in Aiken, South Carolina to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williamson. The family migrated to Niagara Falls, New York, where her father began working...

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Robert S. Curry

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Mar 30, 2018 Biographies

Robert S. Curry was a featured soloist in the Westminster Presbyterian Church choir. He was born in Lancaster, SC and came to Buffalo as a child with his family. He met his wife the former Hulit Merri...

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William H. Jackson

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Dec 2, 2017 Biographies

The opportunities for service to our fellowmen are many and varied but few people in our community have made so much of such opportunities or been able to manifest so concretely his contributions towa...

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Shirley Harris Baker

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Sep 18, 2017 Biographies

Shirley Harris Baker is the youngest of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her parents, Andrew and Emma Robinson Harris, lived in Camden, South Carolina. She had eight brothers, Joe, George, Willie L...

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Mary Alice Worthy Brown

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Jul 3, 2017 Biographies

Mary Alice was born February 4, 1933 in Chester, South Carolina to loving parents, Willie and Geneva Worthy. She was one of five children - brothers David, Ernest and Glenn and sister, Wilma Virginia....

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Bettye Amanda McDaniel Blackman

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Jul 3, 2017 Biographies

Bettye McDaniel Blackman is a former Vice-President and Ferry District member of the Buffalo Board of Education. Throughout her career, Mrs. Blackman has diligently pursued the education of children. ...

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Verna Thomas Morton

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Feb 14, 2017 Biographies

Mrs. Verna T. Morton was born in Sumter , South Carolina . She has resided in Buffalo New York since the age of three. Mrs. Morton is a graduate of Canisius College and received a Master's of Educatio...

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Isaiah Meggett MD

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Jun 24, 2014 Biographies

Dr. Isaiah Meggett was a physician who practiced family medicine in Buffalo area hospitals. He was involved in initiating and supporting numerous community-based health care programs. He was born in E...

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