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Helen Elizabeth Smith was born on April 4, 1922 at East Armuchee, Georgia, the fifth of seven born to Annie Blackstone and Floyd Smith. The Family settled near Bessemer, Alabama in a mining communi...vizualizați mai multeHelen Elizabeth Smith was born on April 4, 1922 at East Armuchee, Georgia, the fifth of seven born to Annie Blackstone and Floyd Smith. The Family settled near Bessemer, Alabama in a mining community known as Potters Camp. She lived through the depression and union organization in Alabama. At the beginning of WWII she traveled to Michigan to work in the burgeoning war industry there. Soon, she joined the Navy, and during the war she served at Pearl Harbor. After the war she returned to the Bessemer area and while enrolling at Birmingham Southern College, on the GI Bill, she met another veteran of the Pacific Theater, William G Hall. They fell in love, married and they had six children. She nurtured her family, she wrote and painted, and she loved God. She died on January 8, 2002 and was buried with full military honors.vizualizați mai puține