Note: ad three brothers whom she loved very much. She had a 9th grade education, raised in the depression she had to quit school and work to help her family survive. That she did until she was 22. Longing to see more and experience more, she made a bargain with her father that if she moved to Bay Minette she would send $.25 a week to help her mother get help with household chores. There she met and married Frederick Post. They had four children, in 1960 she divorced and moved to Mobile where she entered nursing school graduating at the top of her class. She served in that capacity until she retired in Mobile, Alabama in 1971. She lived the last portion of her life in Montana with her oldest son until she became ill and was placed in a nursing care facility. She was moved to Fairhope in 1990 to the Fairhope Nursing Home where she passed away in 1993. She was known as Aunt Belle to her family she loved to sew and create unusual designs. Accomplished, she sewed most of her children's clothes until she returned to work full time. In later years she sewed for her grandchildren. She avidly read, had a green thumb, and loved baseball. Singing (not well) was a passion. She taught all her children to love an appreciate music. A great country cook, she said that cookies were beyond her talent. Raised around many black folks as a child she also taught and lived tolerance and forgivness for others. That was her greatest gift. Note: Myrtle Belle "Belle" to her family was the oldest in her family of four. She h
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