Donation Options Search Search Search Edith Renfrow Smith, just before her 110th birthday, when she baked a cherry pie at her ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edith Renfrow Smith believed in using the time you were given. In 2019, standing before graduates at Grinnell College, she looked ...
She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including ...
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 abolitionist John ...
Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a notably long life — she was one of a very small number of "supercentenarians," or people who live to at least 110 ...
Edith Shadd Green, retired English department head at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, died of pneumonia complications Oct. 23 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Pikesville resident was 82. Born ...
Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old. Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In ...