Vintage Snapshot circa 1956 : Lawanna Blackman

Written on back in pen:

Lawanna Blackman (age 17)

14421 E. Hayward, Whittier, Calif.

OX-34013

 

Audrey Lawanna Blackman was born about 1940, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, her father, Hardy, was 25 and her mother, Okla, was 22. She married Jerry H Albright on March 15, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. She died on July 10, 1994, in Oklahoma, at the age of 54.

 

Audrey Lawanna Albright worked at the Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma.

 

She was the daughter of Okla Homma Blackman (1918-2006) who had Choctaw heritage, and was listed in the Ripley's Believe It or Not because of her name, Okla Homa.

 

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