Edith Flanigen, Award-Winning Research Chemist, Dies at 96

She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including ...

Edith Renfrow Smith, who witnessed more than a century of Black American history, dies at 111

By Donna Bryson Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by ...

Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.
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Edith Renfrow Smith, a ‘memory keeper’ and living link to history, dies at 111

Donation Options Search Search Search Edith Renfrow Smith, just before her 110th birthday, when she baked a cherry pie at her North Side home, She died Friday at the age of 111. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times ...

Grinnell's first Black woman graduate Edith Renfrow Smith dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith, a supercentenarian born the granddaughter of slaves and who lived through the administrations of 19 U.S. presidents, died Friday.
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Edith Irby Jones, Pioneering Black Doctor in the South, Dies at 91

Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, ...
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Edith Renfrow Smith, a ‘memory keeper’ and living link to history, dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. Her earliest memories involve the end of the war in 1918 and a neighbor who came home having lost both legs. She met ...