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Sarah Reed Celebrates 95th with Family and
Friends
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Seventy-five family
members and friends gathered on Saturday, February 28 at the
Holiday Inn French Quarter in Perrysburg to help Sarah E.
Reed celebrate her 95th birthday. They arrived
from as far away as Illinois, Indiana and South Carolina to
toast a woman whose deep devotion and faith and love of
family have sustained her for nine and a half decades.
Clearly that love has been reciprocated manifold over the
years as evidenced by Saturday’s turnout.
Sarah was born in
Blytheville, Arkansas to the Rev. Robert Lloyd and Mary Ann
Lloyd. She married Virley Reed, Sr., in 1936. Virley came to
Toledo in search of work in 1944 and Sarah followed in 1945.
The couple had six children, three of whom are deceased:
William, Charles and James. The couple’s other three
children – Virley, Jr; Carolyn and Debra (Davis) – were at
Saturday’s celebration.
Sarah worked for the
Toledo Board of Education as a matron until her retirement
in 1980 but her passions have been cooking and gardening and
she excelled at both, says her daughter Debra Davis. Virley,
Sr. passed away in 1993 after 57 years of marriage to Sarah.
Sarah has been a longtime
member of the Friendship Baptist congregation and serves on
the Mothers’ Board of the church.
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Debra Davis, Sarah Reed, Carolyn Reed
Virley Reed, Carolyn Reed, Debra Davis, Dora Skinner, Sarah
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