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No retirement home here: more Black women are raising their grandchildren--even as they struggle to find housing.
Edward Hodge isn't allowed to play outside, nor is he eager to.
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The last time Edward, then nine, ventured out--by poking his head out of a broken window screen--he nearly fell into the dumpster right below. But the 12-year-old has since heard too many bullers pop outside to fancy having fun beyond the doorsteps of the apartment he shares with his grandmother, an older sister and younger brother on the east side of Detroit. So a brand new basketball sits unwrapped on top of a heap of hand-me-down toys inside their cramped, cluttered apartment.
Edward's grandmother and sole caregiver, Dolores Dumas, 57, feels the isolation ...
- Lorena Dumas 1915 - 2009.(DEATHS)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) September 14, 2009 700+ words
...country with friends. Mrs. Dumas enjoyed reading, knitting...survived by her son, Eugene Dumas of Thompson; her daughters...MA, and The Reverend Louise Dumas of Granby MA; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren...
- Director has traveled hard road Dumas is first black to lead county Department...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel CYNTHIA HODNETT February 22, 1996 700+ words
...this rhythm about things," Dumas said of his stepfather...life." In his spare time, Dumas enjoys spending time with his...Danielle, 23, and their two grandchildren. In the next five years, Dumas said, his goal is to help...
- DUMAS.(Obit)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) May 20, 2005 700+ words
...daughters, Cindy Dumas and Sandra Dumas of Syracuse; son, Charles...Dennis, Allan and Michael Dumas; his companion, Susan Klock...Lisa and Brittany and 13 grandchildren. Services: Sunday 4:30...PHOTO NO CREDIT Charles K. Dumas
- Beverly F. (Dumas) Patenaude, 68.(DEATHS)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) November 9, 2009 700+ words
...WORCESTER Beverly F. (Dumas) Patenaude, 68, of...of Worcester; four grandchildren; Krystle, Alyssa...her brother, Richard Dumas of Leicester, and a...and Gertrude (Ford) Dumas and lived here all her...family especially her grandchildren. She will be missed...
- Kathleen M. (Dumas) Jyringi, 84.(DEATHS)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) October 25, 2009 700+ words
LEICESTER Kathleen M. (Dumas) Jyringi, 84, of 5 Foster...Theresa LaPlante of Charlton, 12 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews...deceased by a brother Dennis Dumas and three sisters Vivian Southard...
- Marlene Dumas: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Kantor, Jordan October 1, 2008 700+ words
...assembled more than one hundred of Dumas's paintings and works on...expressionism on the other--Dumas embraces the emotive potential...effect: These are the great-grandchildren of Manet's Olympia. Yet...Indeed, throughout her work Dumas practices a kind of updated...
- William A. Dumas of Lynn, at 69, retired machinst.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald June 19, 2001 700+ words
...for 30 years. Later, Mr. Dumas worked as a machinist for W...League for several years. Mr. Dumas was an avid gardener and a...Paul of Peabody and Emile Dumas of Siberia; three sisters...Delia Emerson of Vermont; six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews...
- Katherine Dumas of Foxboro, at 59, probation clerk.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald January 22, 2004 700+ words
...Katherine Mary (Costello) Dumas of Foxboro, a former probation...Born in Roslindale, Mrs. Dumas graduated from Roslindale High...retirement in 2003. Mrs. Dumas is survived by her husband...Costello of Belmont; two grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, grandnieces...