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brer cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-12-07 08:20 PM
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8. She was a steel magnolia in the best sense of the term.
I think one of the most impressive things about her was that Jimmy grew up with black friends, in rural south Georgia, and that was obviously fine with her. I was born not far from Plains in the mid 1940's, and it was NOT ok with most folks for white children to play with black children. She lived the life she chose, and produced a great son. He's my hero and so is she!
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  -Anybody here remember Lillian Carter? Elwood P Dowd  Feb-12-07 08:06 PM   #0 
  - and how OLD was she when she joined the Peace Corps?  angstlessk   Feb-12-07 08:08 PM   #1 
  - She was in the Peace Corps?  Elwood P Dowd   Feb-12-07 08:10 PM   #3 
  - I am sure she did something as quiet as teaching...but she joined  angstlessk   Feb-12-07 08:12 PM   #4 
     - she was 68  genevat   Feb-12-07 08:13 PM   #5 
        - thank you, we no longer have to rely on memory...we have the  angstlessk   Feb-12-07 08:15 PM   #6 
           - i know. i love the google.  genevat   Feb-12-07 08:18 PM   #7 
              - Yes, I recall the college libarary late nights...but...well we had no  angstlessk   Feb-12-07 08:25 PM   #9 
  - As I recall she told me she was maybe in her '60s when she  JDPriestly   Feb-12-07 10:55 PM   #18 
  - My Grandmother and Miss Lillian were very good friends  Perky   Feb-12-07 08:10 PM   #2 
  - She was a steel magnolia in the best sense of the term.  brer cat   Feb-12-07 08:20 PM   #8 
  - It took a special person  Elwood P Dowd   Feb-12-07 08:30 PM   #10 
     - It is wonderful that you are reprising that memory tonight.  brer cat   Feb-12-07 09:37 PM   #14 
  - Sure do. She was just a few younger than my grandmother  Hardrada   Feb-12-07 08:30 PM   #11 
  - Oh, yes, I remember Miss Lillian! She was wonderful!  WinkyDink   Feb-12-07 08:37 PM   #12 
  - To understand the difference between Dubya and Jimmy ...  TahitiNut   Feb-12-07 08:44 PM   #13 
  - Amen, amen and amen!  brer cat   Feb-12-07 09:44 PM   #16 
  - Ms. Lillian was the KA housemother  Frances   Feb-12-07 09:38 PM   #15 
  - Yes, I met her and talked to her for quite a while.  JDPriestly   Feb-12-07 10:54 PM   #17 
  - Ms Lillian was an inspiration  Raine   Feb-13-07 03:58 AM   #19 
  - yes I do  Skittles   Feb-13-07 04:19 AM   #20 
  - I met her in the Depot Museum in Plains in 1977  JCMach1   Feb-13-07 04:43 AM   #21 
  - They used to call it grit  realpolitik   Feb-14-07 06:44 PM   #22 
 

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