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Floy attended Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd. She is the young girl in the front row, second from the left.

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.

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…

After Floy’s mother came North with her husband, Robert, in the 1930s, she worked for the Kerry family caring for their children.

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