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Dec 5, 2013 · Broadway performer and film actress, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1924 to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Wallace. Her mother was a domestic and her father worked as a cook, waiter, and porter.
Jun 11, 2014 · Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Ruby Wallace, daughter of Edward Wallace and Gladys Hightower, was born in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. [1]
- Female
- October 27, 1922
- Frank Dee Brown, Raiford Chatman Davis
- June 11, 2014
Dee was born on October 27, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Gladys (née Hightower) and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook, waiter and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee's father remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher.
Apr 1, 2018 · Gladys Hightower, a Tower of Song in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I never knew her history or how she came to be the only black person at the First United Methodist Church in Las Vegas, New Mexico. But she was there, and had been a part of the church for many years before I discovered it. She always sat at the end of the second row pew on the west side.
Jan 10, 2024 · Search all Gladys Hightower Obituaries and Death Notices to find upcoming funeral home services, leave condolences for the family, and research genealogy.
Aug 20, 2020 · Broadway performer and film actress, Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1922, to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Wallace. Her mother was a domestic and her father worked as a cook, waiter, and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee's father married…
Jun 11, 2014 · Born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1922, she was the third child born to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace. Her parents were two teenagers who married when Gladys became pregnant with the first child.
