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Note: 1. Joyce was an accomplished seamstress and worked in a shirt factory in Dallas during the 1920s. After her husband Ike died in 1944, during the early 1950s she studied for her license and worked for a time as an Licensed Vocational Nurse. She loved to pick up pecans each season, sell some, use some, and did so for most of her life at the Groveland St. home. She was a long time active member of the White Rock Methodist Church in Dallas. She was blessed with good health during her long life and managed to live on her own, in her own home until her passing at nearly 95-years of age. 2. She had a sign hanging in her hallway for many, many years that read, "Old age is 15-years older than I am." 3. Joyce sold her home on 2814 Dathe Street, just south of downtown Dallas, for $7,500.00 to O.L. and Louise Price on November 15, 1947. She then purchased her new home on 8631 Groveland Ave. from Callie Davenport, a widow, for $6,500.00 on December 3, 1947, and lived there until her death in 1991, at age 95. She stated that the reason for moving from the Dathe Street home was that the neighborhood was rapidly declining. 4. She liked to talk about her siblings and their children. We had to be careful what we wrote to her, because she was in the habit of forwarding letters written to her on to others. In 2001, one of those letters written to someone else found its way to her grandson from a distant cousin, the recepient, nearly 40-years after it was written. That letter contained a line, 'my grandmother (McGahee) married a Franks' that helped unlock a nearly century old mystery as to her mother's McGahee family lineage.
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