Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1911 to William Winfield Jackson and Mary Brown Jackson. Her family owned and operated a printing business and a movie theater that served the Pittsburgh community up until 1917, when her father died in a motor vehicle accident. Ormes was certainly influenced […]
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