Thomas, Lucy Boyer, 1923-2004,
Lucy Boyer Thomas was born in 1923, grew up in the Fazendeville village near Chalmette, and attended school in New Orleans through the eleventh grade. She studied nursing at UCLA and worked as a nurse in California and Louisiana. She married Francis Thomas and they had five children. She lived in the Ninth Ward for more than fifty years, surviving Hurricane Betsy. She died in 2004 at age eighty-one.
From the description of Lucy Boyer Thomas oral history interview, 2003. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 635195105
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| creatorOf | Thomas, Lucy Boyer, 1923-2004,. Lucy Boyer Thomas oral history interview, 2003. | Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries |
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| associatedWith | Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Mwendo, Nilima, | person |
| associatedWith | Schiro, Victor H. (Victor Hugo), 1904-1992. | person |
| associatedWith | University of California, Los Angeles. School of Nursing | corporateBody |
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| Ninth Ward (New Orleans, La.) |
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| Hurricane Betsy, 1965 |
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Birth 1923
Death 2004
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