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Jun 14, 2021 · Eva Crawford, metastatic breast cancer survivor, sits down with Mary Petersen, Communications Lead Volunteer with Relay For Life of Santa Clarita Valley, to ...
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Avery Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, the son of Eva Lydia (née Crawford), a choral conductor and music instructor, and Samuel Brooks, a union official and tool and die worker. [citation needed] His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was also a singer who graduated from Tougaloo College in 1901.
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Oct 7, 2023 · Eva Lydia Brooks formerly Crawford. Born 2 Apr 1913 in Mississippi, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Traverse Samuel Crawford and Eva (Roberts) Crawford. Sister of Traverse Crawford, Bina Roselle (Crawford) Ferguson and Avery Robert Crawford. Wife of Samuel Leon Brooks — married 1947 in Indiana, United States. Mother of Avery Brooks.
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- April 2, 1913
- Samuel Leon Brooks
- September 26, 1984
Feb 10, 2022 · Brooks was born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, IN to father Samuel Brooks and mother Eva Lydia Crawford. The family would move to Gary, IN when Brooks was 8. He is quoted as saying, “I was born in Evansville, but it was Gary, IN that made me.”
Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana to Samuel Leon (a tool and die maker and singer) and Eva Lydia Crawford (a pianist, organist, and choir director). At age eight, his family later moved to Gary, Indiana when Samuel Brooks was laid off from International Harvester.
The Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The Great Yarmouth herring fleet had made th...
