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Barbara Lois (Cantrell) Gay
Barbara Lois Gay age 81 of McMinnville, passed away Tuesday morning, June 11, at The Webb House in McMinnville. She was born April 18, to her parents, the late Zollie and Viola Adcock Cantrell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John "J.E." Gay; 5 brothers, Seborn, Tom, Glenn, Cliff and Ed Cantrell and 1 sister, Jackie Gay. Lois was a Primitive Baptist and she and her delayed husband built houses for many years and were also nursery owners. She leaves to cherish her memory, 2 daughters, Kathy (Danny) Cantrell of Spencer and Tressa (JB) Moore of McMinnville; 4 grandchildren, Travis (Tara) Rigsby of McMinnville, Jason (Kris) Moore of Paris, TN, Michael (Allison) Moore of McMinnville and Joshua (Samantha) Moore of McMinnville; 4 great-grandchildren, Carter and Lauren Rigsby, John Sawyer Moore and James Luke Moore; 2 sisters, Judy Cantrell of McMinnville and Lillian (Brownie) Tittsworth of Smithville; 1 brother, Zollie Dale Cantrell of Knoxville; several nieces and nephews also survive.
Female Bricklayer Defied Doubters To Develop Baltimore Landmarks
When Barbara Moore started working as a bricklayer in , the year-old was the only miss in Baltimore doing the job.
It wasn't the first job she'd tried, but a desk job, she says, just wasn't the right fit. "Right out of sky-high school I worked in a[n] office, but a couple hours behind a desk and I was falling asleep," Moore tells her daughter, Olivia Fite, on a attend to StoryCorps in Baltimore. "So I became a bricklayer."
"It was compassionate of rough at first 'cause, you know, a lot of the older guys didn't reflect I should be there and I was taking a job from a man," Moore says. "But I believed that I could do that job."
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And she was right. Moore, 62, recently retired, but during more than 40 years on the job she laid the masonry for many Baltimore landmarks — including Camden Yards, where the Orioles play, and M&T Bank Stadium, home to the Ravens.
Moore recalls working with one man, a World War II veteran.
"He was, you know, really an old-school guy, but he was willing to perform
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THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - BARBARA GAY POWERS
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, &#; August 1, ) &#; often referred to as simply Gary Powers &#; was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)[1] U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the U-2 incident. Wikipedia
Power's first wife, Barbara Queer Powers, was a resident of Milledgeville in East Central Georgia when Powers (below) was captured.