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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 ]
The capital city mourns the loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair It’s safe to say that Mothershed-Wair’s life wasn’t in vain, city and state leaders all making it clear as ...
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.
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.
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 ...
"To Jean Brown Trickey, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, and Jefferson Thoma...in recognition of the selfless heroism such individuals exhibited and the pain they suffered in the cause of civil rights by integrating Central High School in ...
Blood pooled near her body, on which, when a police officer took a photo, sat a single fly. Gagne was 41 and worked as a bar and restaurant manager. She was living in half of a south Fort Worth ...
Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage) See also. Civil rights movement in popular culture; References External links. Nine from Little ...