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Odessa Lee Clay (née O'Grady; February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Rahaman Ali, and the paternal grandmother of Laila Ali. [1] [2] She married Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. in the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children. [3]
Oct 30, 2022 · Odessa Grady Clay, Cassius Clay's mother, was the great-granddaughter of the freed slave Tom Morehead and of John Grady of Ennis, whose son Abe had emigrated from...
Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Lee Grady Clay, mother of the three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, died Sunday at the Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home. She was 77 and had been disabled by a stroke...
Aug 20, 1994 · Odessa Lee Clay (née Grady) (February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rudolph Valentino Clay, now Rahman Ali and grandmother of Laila Ali.
Odessa Lee “Momma Bird” Grady Clay. 1917 – 1994 • Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery. Memorial. Photos 11. Flowers 211. Photos. Request Photo. Suggest Edits. Birth. 12 Feb 1917. Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky, USA. Death. 20 Aug 1994 (aged 77) Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. Burial. Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery.
Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Lee Grady Clay, who died Sunday at 77, was her son’s biggest booster during his rise to the heavyweight championship. During the days when women were a rare sight in boxing, Clay...
Odessa Lee Clay was born in Hopkins County in western Kentucky. Her parents, John Grady and Birdie Morehead Grady, were divorced about 50 years ago, after which . Grady moved to...
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