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Thelma Mothershed married Fred Wair on December 26, 1965, and became Thelma Mothershed-Wair. Fred Wair was born on October 6, 1939, and died at age 65 on May 25, 2005, in Cahokia, Illinois . [ 10 ] Thelma and Fred had one son, Scott, and two grandchildren. [ 10 ]
Thelma Mothershed-Wair took her last breath on October 19, on Saturday her funeral services were held at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church where her family, friends, and people of the ...
Her husband died in 2005, and Mothershed Wair moved back to Little Rock, Davis said. According to the National Park Service, Mothershed Wair worked in the East St. Louis, Illinois, school system for 10 years as a home economics teacher and for 18 years as a counselor for elementary career education before retiring in 1994.
She says Thelma Mothershed-Wair’s legacy will forever live. Thomas’s daughter Vonda is a graduate of Central High and got a chance to meet Mothershed-Wair before her death.
Thelma Mothershed Wair, 83. One of nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults.
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2024 1 Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian ...
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died Atlanta is America’s past and future How to turn fun HBCU Homecoming memories into powerful ...