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In their first years of marriage and music, my

parents’ future looked as bright as the stars.

Daddy saw my mother’s exceptional gift for

playing piano, singing, and especially for

speaking, so he appointed her MC of the

group which, at the time, was unheard of for a

woman. Dad kept playing and singing and

became the group manager. In 1940, they

gained some notoriety playing on WGST, a

local radio show in Atlanta sponsored by the

NuGrape soft drink company.

Then the shadow of World War II fell over the

nation and everything changed.

My mother, already busy raising three

children, became pregnant yet again with me.

Then my father was shipped off to duty in the

U.S. Navy. While my dad served our country

on a ship somewhere near the Philippines, my

mother delivered me at the U.S. Naval Base

Hospital on Oct. 6, 1944, in Gulfport,

Mississippi. At 26 years old, she managed to

raise four small children on her own until

Daddy finally came home from the war when I

was 2 years old.

At Right: The Le Fevre Trio

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