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The following information, taken from the brochure printed for the funeral service of Dr. Woodtor, was sent to me by her sister, Dr. Twinet Parmer-Gordon of Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan:
".........Dr. Delores (Dee) Parmer Woodtor was born in Greenville, Al to Adele Longmire Parmer-King and Willie James Parmer. She moved to Chicago, Il at a young age. After attending Englewood High School, she was awarded BA & MA Political Science degrees from the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana. In 1986, she received a Ph.D in Political Science from Northwestern University. Before Dr. Woodtor's death on August 6, 2002, she was working as a Professor At DePaul University in the School for New Learning. She had also established her own company where she served as a freelance writer, editor & professional genealogy researcher. With her husband, Patrick Saingbey Woodtor, Dee was co-founder of the African Festival of the Arts, held for the past 17 years on Labor Day weekend in Washington Park in Chicago, Il. Dee's first published book, BIG MEETING, an African-American children's book chronicles her own experiences as a child traveling to Alabama for the Homecoming weekend in the community where she was born. (Dee Parmer Woodtor was buried in the St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church Cemetery, Greenville, Butler County, Al on the annual Homecoming Saturday, August 17, 2002.)........As a leading authority in African-American genealogy, she developed the manuscript for the book, FINDING A PLACE CALLED HOME: An African-American Guide to Genealogy and Historical Identity, which was published in 1999........."
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