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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.
The loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair is a major one in ... 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.
On November 19, 2022, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier and Thelma Mothershed-Wair etched their initials onto metal plates that were then welded onto the keel of the attack submarine USS Arkansas in a ceremony at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. The plates will remain affixed to the ...
Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage) See also. Civil rights movement in popular culture; References External links. Nine from Little ...
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 ...