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He was the youngest of eight children born to Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924) and Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980). He was known as Travis during his childhood years. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama but quit after only six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Maryrose Reeves was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Indiana, the daughter of Mary Saunders Reeves and stepdaughter of Frank Walden. [1] She completed diploma requirements at the Sargent School of Physical Education in 1923, and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1933; she earned a master's degree from Boston University in 1938, [2] with a thesis titled "“The Development of ...
A Virginia family of four who dedicated their lives to figure skating and each other were among the victims who died in Wednesday's devastating plane crash near Reagan National Airport.. Business ...
Cedarville University student Grace Maxwell was returning from her grandfather’s funeral when she was killed in the Washington, DC, plane crash.
Christopher Reeve's son Matthew Reeve is "proud" of his mother Gae Exton for opening up about her late ex in a moving new documentary.. At the New York City premiere of Super/Man: The Christopher ...
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. [1]Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the ...
Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as ...