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  2. Jeannie Morris - Wikipedia

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    Jeannie Morris (née Myers; December 2, 1935 – December 14, 2020) was an American sports journalist and author.Primarily based in Chicago, she covered various sports, including baseball and football, during a time in which women were not permitted in certain areas of sporting events.

  3. Betty Halbreich - Wikipedia

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    Halbreich's marriage was unhappy, due to her husband's drinking and frequent affairs. [2] [11] She attempted suicide and was admitted to a mental institution.[12] [13] Upon recovery, she began seeking employment, and worked in a series of designer showrooms on Seventh Avenue and later for Chester Weinberg and Geoffrey Beene before being hired at Bergdorf Goodman in 1976 as a sales associate.

  4. Edith Renfrow Smith - Wikipedia

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    Edith Renfrow Smith (born July 14, 1914) is an American woman and supercentenarian who was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. [1] She is a granddaughter of slaves. [2] At age 108, she was designated a "superager" in a study by Northwestern University for her remarkable memory and longevity.

  5. Woman's colorful obituary goes viral. Her son says she would ...

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    As Corren lovingly writes in the obit, "A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found," adding that in her 84 years of life, she survived ...

  6. Karen Lewis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. American labor leader (1953–2021) This article is about the American labor leader. For other people with the same name, see Karen Lewis (disambiguation). Karen Lewis Lewis in 2015 President of the Chicago Teachers Union In office 2010–2014 Preceded by Marilyn Stewart Succeeded by ...

  7. Connecticut woman's obituary included her last joke - AOL

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    The obituary A Fairfield, Connecticut, woman's tall tale from beyond has elicited the amused reactions she had hoped for when she was alive. Connecticut woman's obituary included her last joke

  8. List of people from Chicago - Wikipedia

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    United States Senator from Illinois; Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 1st district: Born in Chicago Katharine McCormick: Aug 27, 1875: Dec 28, 1967: Biologist, suffragist, philanthropist, and heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune Grew up in Chicago L. Hamilton McCormick: May 27, 1859: Feb 2, 1934

  9. Overlooked (obituary feature) - Wikipedia

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    The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...