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MULLINAX, JEANNE "KIT"
Funeral MULLINAX, JEANNE "KIT", age 75, passed away April 8, 2009. A 1951  graduate of Woodlawn High School, "Kit" was crowned Miss Cascade Plunge 1950. In the 1960's she was tapped in the social sorority Beta Sigma  Phi, won several local, regional, and national awards for her artistic  talent creating the sorority's annual "scrap book" and left the society as a Silver Circle 25 year member. After two decades as homemaker, she enrolled early in the 1970's in Jefferson State Jr. College, then  Birmingham Southern College, then completed her baccalaureate at UABwhere she went on to earn her master's degree in education with honors.

She spent over 20 years in education as a 5th grade teacher at Clay Elementary where she was much loved, honored and cherished by her students.
 
Upon retirement, she pursued a new passion for writing as  Associate Editor of Senior Living Newspaper. It was during this time that she was asked tobecome a member of the National PEN Women's  Society. She was the recipient of the 2003 Golden Eagle Award and  inducted into the Alabama Senior Citizens Hall of Fame. The family especially wants to acknowledge the guidance and support of Dorcus Smith, and Betsy Frasier of All Caring Home Health and her special caregivers, Inez Taylor and Alythia Foster.
 
 Kit Mullinax was preceded in death by her parents, Charles Craven and  Louise Craven; and her husband, John Mullinax.
 
She is survived by her 5 children, Steve Stubblefield (Beth) of Troy, AL; Scott Stubblefield (Donna) of  Millbrook, AL; Mark Taylor of NY, NY; Tracy Taylor Moser (John) and Troy Taylor of B'ham, AL;
 
5 grandchildren; Christopher, Ryan (Linsey) and Kaitlynn Stubblefield; Meg and Matthew Moser; and 1 great  grandchild, Kyndall Stubblefield.
 
 Visitation will be Wednesday April 15, at Jefferson Memorial (Trussville) Alabama from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Funeral  Services will be Thursday April 16, at 12:00 p.m. in the chapel. [See Pamela Hartt Quilt of 1846]

[Submitted by Carole J. Dick]


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Mrs. NESTOR
Funeral services for Mrs. Muriel Dean Nestor 51, of 8044 Fifth Avenue South, will be held at 2 P.M. Saturday at Roebuck Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. 

Mrs. Nestor died Thursday in a local hospital.  She was a native of Pineville, Ky.  She was a retired school teacher and a member of East Lake Methodist Church.

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. R.H. McDuffy of Birmingham, Mrs. Joe Horn of Loyall Ky. and Mrs. Selby Roby of Bardstown, Ky.  a brother Cecil W. Wilson of Middletown, Ohio.

Sadly they failed to mention her daughter Ramona Lee Nestor and her three grandchildren.

Mrs. Muriel Dean Nestor died 21 Oct 1965. 

[The Birmingham (AL) News, 1965 - Submitted by Ramona Lee Nestor]
 

Mrs. BERTHA MAE NORRIS
Funeral for Mrs. Bertha Mae Norris, 81, of 401 Third Ave., North, Bessemer, who died Tuesday will be at 11:30 a.m. today at Brown Service Bessemer, with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.  She was a member of Third Avenue Baptist Church of Bessemer.  Survivors include her husband, Bill Norris; two daughters, Mrs. Mae Dell Heflin, Caffee Junction, Mrs. Juanita Smith, McCalla; three sons, Buddy and Billy Norris, both of Hueytown, and Jerry Norris, Bessemer; a sister, Mrs. Emily Barden, Gadsden; two brothers, Tracey and Otis Steele, both of Waxahachie, Texas. 

[Birmingham (AL) Post-Herald, July 24, 1980, page A-7, transcribed by C. Anthony]

Mrs. IDA NUNN
Mrs. Ida Nunn, 120, a former slave who said she was born on a plantation near Birmingham, Ala., in 1844 and whose age was confirmed by an Arkansas State Senator who said she had worked for his family when he was a boy in East St. Louis, IL.

[Chicago Tribune, Sept. 25, 1964, Submitted by Friend of Free Genealogy]  

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Guy Owen Lost Life.
Young Man Drowned At Sunday School Picnic.
Was Swimming With Companions At West Lake, Near Bessemer, When He Sank to the Bottom.

Birmingham, June 25--(Special)--Guy Owen, the eighteen years old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Owen, who reside at Hueytown, a suburb of Bessemer, was drowned this afternoon in the lake at West Lake Park, near there.

The boy with a couple of hundred companions was in swimming when he became exhausted and sank to the bottom. His body was taken from the water in fifteen or twenty minutes, but an hour spent trying to resuscitate him availed nothing.

The body is at an undertaking establishment.

The Baptist Church Sunday School of Bessemer was on a picnic at West Lake Park and the boys went in swimming during the afternoon.

This is the second drowning at Sunday School picnics in this district in the past week.

 [Montgomery Advertiser, June 26 1907, transcribed by C. Anthony]

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