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Charles Henry "Speedy" Atkins (1875–1928) was an American tobacco worker in Paducah, Kentucky.A pauper at his death, he drowned in the Ohio River.The city turned over his body for a pauper's burial to his friend A.Z. Hamock, the only African-American undertaker in town.
People from Paducah, Kentucky, by occupation (3 C) Pages in category "People from Paducah, Kentucky" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Velma Louise Gaines Hamock (May 25, 1910 – October 3, 2000) was an American funeral home owner in Paducah, Kentucky.In 1949 she inherited the business, at one time the only African-American owned funeral home in the city, after the death of her husband A. Z. Hamock.
Aimee Stephens was a funeral home employee who had presented herself as male up until 2013. On July 31, 2013, she wrote to her employer, the Harris Funeral Homes group, so that they could be prepared for her decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery, telling them that after a vacation, she planned to return dressed in female attire that ...
She was kept alive until 10:00 pm the evening of the shooting. Her family had moved to Paducah from Nebraska the year before. Her parents were praised for donating her organs. President Bill Clinton cited this "courageous decision" in his Proclamation 7083 on National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week in 1998. [6]
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Aimee Stephens (December 7, 1960 – May 12, 2020) was an American funeral director known for her fight for civil rights for transgender people. [1] She worked as a funeral director in Detroit and was fired for being transgender.
The Paducah Sun is a daily newspaper in Paducah, Kentucky, owned by the family-run Paxton Media Group. The paper was formerly known as the Paducah Sun-Democrat. The publisher is Bill Evans. Matt Jones is the general manager. The Sun is the most-read newspaper in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase region. The newspaper's combined online and print ...