When Alene Kate was born
to Mr. & Mrs. Brown and Roxie Stewart, ninety-nine years ago on July 27,
1915, earth received a gift of brain, brawn and beauty. Alene Kate was born
with no “silver spoon in her mouth” but with brain; i.e. a strong mental
capacity with a constant high IQ. She never suffered from dementia or
Alzheimer’s. She went to Myers Street Elementary School at five years of age,
graduated from Second Ward High School at 15 years of age after completing the
limited eleventh grade. She graduated from North Carolina College for Negroes,
now NC Central University where she was an honor student. All of her life,
Alene has been brilliant and bright.
Alene is a gift of brawn,
i.e. strength of character and is a credit to her race. She had five brothers
whom she helped to educate; helped to liquidate a mortgage on the family’s farm;
was married to the late Paris P. McCorkle and is the mother of her caregiver
daughter, Elizabeth Rose Kitterman.
For 99 years, Alene Kate
Stewart McCorkle has been a beauty, both physically and internally. (See
pictures attached)
She taught Mathematics at
Second Ward High School in Charlotte, North Carolina for many years and was the
faculty advisor for the 79 members of the class of ’47 for two years.
It is for these reasons
that we call upon all of you, to help pour “showers of blessings” upon one who
is approaching the 100 mark!
Whether or not you have
met Mrs. McCorkle, you are asked to send her a birthday card today or before
July 27, 2014, with $9.00 enclosed.
(Remember your 99th birthday is coming)
Send to:
Mrs. Alene S. McCorkle
1139 Mulberry Street
Charlotte, NC 28216
And a copy to me for
publication.
You will be glad that you
did!
PICTURES IN REVIEW
Love u aunt Alene
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