Antoinette Harvey's Obituary
Antoinette Harvey was born on April 27, 1940 in Taft, Oklahoma. She was the oldest of three children born to Veter Vera Mae Lowe and Jesse Oliver Lowe. She graduated in 1958, she joined the army immediately after high school. She was too thin at enlistment, so she had to eat hamburgers and shakes the entire 24 hours before she was weighed in. She barely made it with her weight. After her three years she moved to Chicago, without telling her family. She rented her a room in the boarding house. When she came home, the land lady, told her to call her grandmother. Her grandmother had contacted the Army. The Army had sent the MP’s to her boarding house in Chicago. She contacted her grandmother and lived in Chicago by herself, until she moved to California, to be near her grandparents. Her maternal grandfather was 18 years old when the civil war began. He remembered Abraham Lincoln as president. He died at 107 years of age. Her paternal grandfather was the first “black judge” in Taft, Oklahoma. She leaves behind: Her daughter Tanya Gilbert, Son-In-Law, Gilbert, and grandchildren Lorenzo A. Gilbert and Angelo A.M Gilbert.
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