Prosser’s life came to a tragic halt, leaving the world wondering what she could have accomplished had she lived longer. Prosser was an inspirational figure for siblings, as well as for the people who she came into contact with in her career. Inez Beverly Prosser, born Inez Prosser was born to parents Samuel Andrew Beverly and Veola Hamilton, in the small town Yoakum, Texas. (Benjamin, Henry, Mcmahon 2005) Due to lack of public record her year of birth is not verifiable by any one specific source. Prosser is the second oldest of eleven children but the first to go to college.
One woman who took the opposite approach was Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen foundation. There are very few people in the world with the drive and motivation that Nancy obtained throughout her career. She was an individual that would not allow breast cancer to take over her life, but only to use it as a motivation to banish the disease from our world. The hope and confidence that she gives to breast cancer patients every day is truly remarkable. Nancy Brinker has greatly effected our world today by impacting our society and medical
But without love Granny’s radically human hurt was never healed.”(Unre, 108) At the age of forty, Granny Weatherall suffered of a second life changing jilting when her husband John died. After her husband’s death Granny Weatherall was left to be both mother and father to her five children. Even though she was left alone to raise her children she believed she had done a good job, and good enough for John to one day
At first, Robert was a wonderful husband and showered his wife with gifts and attention but this eventually faded and the happy couple divorced Ben grew up in inner-city Detroit with his mom and older brother, Curtis, and his family was not the wealthiest either. Sonya Carson raised both of her sons by herself and many times she took on two or three jobs to support her family. Even from his childhood, Ben thought towards a
at Willis Knight Medical Center in Shreveport, La a beautiful life came to an end. Bro.”Sonny Boy” was liked by all and always had a smile and a kind word to say for everyone. My granny started feeling lost so my dad had moved her away from the small town Benson,La into another small town called Mansfield,LA were my dad and mother lived. This town was a little bigger than were my grandparents lived the population for this town was at least 2500 people compared to Benson were it only had an estimated of 100 people with only one corner store. Mansfield has a hospital called Desoto Regional has been there since the early 1960s so my parents felt the town was a little secure for my granny just in case she gets sick.
She has little family, maybe a daughter or son who has there own family and only finds time to visit her occasionally but she likes looking through old photo’s to remind her of the people she loves. Her first husband was a solider and died in the army when she was only 26 year olds, leaving her with the care of their only child. Her second husband died 2 years before she moved into the residential care home due to old age and dementia. She has seen a lot of people who where quite close to her pass away through her many years of life but she still remains positive and full of
She was the oldest out of eight siblings; she had both 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Due to the many siblings she had, she wasn’t able to attend college, thus being able to meet my grandfather Clearance in the year 1955. Together they had a total of six kids, in which my grandmother stayed home and cared for them, while my grandfather open and ran his own personal construction business. Much is to be said about my grandmother, but I could talk days on end about her. She is by far one of the most influential people in my life, her hard-work and optimism are just two of the things I admire most about her.
Although rumors circulated that the couple spent more time apart than together, they were still married when Onassis died in 1975. After the death of her second husband Jackie never re-married but moved to New York City, where she worked as a book editor from 1978 until the day of her death in 1994 of lymphatic cancer. At her funeral, her son “John, John” as he was called, spoke of his mother as a valiant and amazing woman. And she was; she was an extraordinary woman whose courage and determination during the death of her husband was not only surprising but admiring. She left an impression on the 1960’s era as a style
She is also a hero because of her devotion, love, and loyalty as daughter as well as her dedication a sibling, having spent much of her last years caring for her invalid sister. Although ironically Miss Jarvis never had children herself, and thus, was not an "official" mother, she is considered the "Mother of Mother's Day," a title as grand as her beautiful cause and her ceaseless devotion. She passed away on November 24, 1948 at the age of 84. The bells at St. Andrew’s Church in Grafton tolled 84 times in honor of
Emma Greene, an eighteen year old girl fighting cystic fibrosis, is also the daughter of two very poor immigrants from Europe. Her father, a carpenter, and mother, a seamstress, have not paid a penny for their daughters many surgeries, including a recent double-lung and liver transplant. Emma is very grateful and would not be alive today without Medicare and