City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2009-1472

• File #: 2009-1472
• Version: 1
• Type: Proclamation
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/2/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/2/2009
• Enactment date: 6/2/2009
• Enactment #: 314
• Title: NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim June 2, 2009, to be designated, “Mrs. Flossie Lee Carter Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.
• Sponsors: Reverend Ricky V. Burgess, All Members
• Indexes: PROCLAMATION - MR. BURGESS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/2/2009	1	City Council	Adopted	Pass

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WHEREAS, On June 2, 1900, Flossie Lee Aldridge was born in Opelika, Alabama; and

WHEREAS, Flossie Lee Aldridge married Buster Carter and had three children, Mamie Rose, Gurelene and Carl; and

WHEREAS, Flossie worked for the Works Projects Administration, a New Deal program that provided jobs during the Great Depression; and

WHEREAS, Flossie moved to Pittsburgh in 1954 with her son and daughter and two grand-daughters, and lived in Homewood until 2004, when she moved to the Heritage Shadyside; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Carter has three children, two still living, ten grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren (one of whom works for me), and 30 great-great-grandchildren, many of whom will travel from Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma to celebrate her 109^th birthday this weekend; and

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NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim June 2, 2009, to be designated, "Mrs. Flossie Lee Carter Day"  in the City of Pittsburgh.