Obituaries Related to "Blackwell" from New York Times Archive
Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.
BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...
Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.
BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...
Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.
BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...
Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.
BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...
Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election
A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.
Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.
BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...
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