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While growing up, Floy and her parents attended Second Methodist Church, which stood where Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association now stands (800 Pleasant Street). In this photo, a group of women attend a tea social. The woman at the far right is…

Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd, where Floy attended school.

Floy Givhan brought a photo from a football team from her high school, Lincoln Jr. High School. She had many friends on the football team, but had to leave school when she became pregnant as a junior in 1960.

Left to right: Floy Gihvan, her brother Clauzell Givhan, and their cousin Roberta Foster standing on a bridge in New Albany, Mississippi, their family’s hometown.

Floy’s father, Robert Givhan, worked in the Fairbanks Morse foundry for thirty years after coming North from Mississippi in the 1930s.