Browse Items (15 total)

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

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

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…

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.

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

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.

Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd, where Floy attended school.

These three cousins have a unique thing they share: their name! All three were named Floy Givhan.

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

This document, a scan of a flyer for the 1992 Cameron Connection family reunion, features a photo of the family matriarch, Catherine “Grandma Kitty” Cameron. This woman, Floy’s father’s grandmother, had seven children as well as many grandchildren…