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Shirley Vaughn Jackson
Shirley Vaughn Jackson resided on Violet Avenue in Hyde Park, New York, from 1934 to 1967. She matriculated through the Hyde Park public schools, graduating from F. D. Roosevelt Hi...voir plusShirley Vaughn Jackson resided on Violet Avenue in Hyde Park, New York, from 1934 to 1967. She matriculated through the Hyde Park public schools, graduating from F. D. Roosevelt High School as valedictorian in June 1951. She was one of the Hyde Park school children who passed out programs to the attendees of President Roosevelt’s Rose Garden burial on April 15, 1945. She was hired as the first Black office employee at the general headquarters of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Company. In December of 1967
she married the Rev. Dr. Belvie H. Jackson, Jr., who was pastor of the historic Smith Street African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They were transferred to the Greater Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in June 1968. Included in her many religious and civic endeavors, she is employed by the City of Mount Vernon in the Career Center at Mount Vernon High School. She is the loving mother of two daughters, Christina and Belinda, and the doting grandmother of Christina and Clint’s sons, Tyson and Josiah. After the passing of Rev. Jackson in July 2005, she continues to reside in Mount Vernon where she remains an active member of the church and community.voir moins
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