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Cherrie Martin posted a condolence
Friday, May 7, 2021
My husband, David Martin, always talked to Calvin at the meetings when he was able to attend. They hit it off right away. It was likely their shared love of fashionable clothes. And when David was unable to make a meeting, Calvin would ask me, "how is my friend?" The Martin family only got to know Calvin a little bit but enjoyed our time together. I can't wait to see both of them again, together, and in perfect health. Love you Mims family.
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Calvin Mims posted a condolence
Saturday, May 1, 2021
The day has finally arrived to say a temporary 'Good Bye' to our dad, grand dad and great, great grand dad, brother and uncle. Calvin Mims Sr. was a complex man. However, I think we would do him a great deservice if we didn't look at his life without having some context in the times in which he lived and his family background. When us kids laid eyes on Dad.. he was on the other side of twenty years old. We lived in a big city Chicgo, post 1950. Those previous formative years of my dad's life when he grew up in Mississippi, we knew nothing about. He was born in 1930. The great Depression was in its 2nd year. People were suffering all over the country. White people in large numbers were poor as dirt. Many men left their wives and their large family of children to go look for work. Many men never returned to their families. 90 per of blacks lived in the Jim Crow south working side by side in the cotton fields with poor whites as sharecopper families. Few owned land and all were at the mercy of the few land owners who had owned plantations for hundreds of years. Few people had any money. My dad's older siblings were teenagers and young adults during the Depression years. (1929-1939). Women had few rights. Men essentially owned their wives and children. Most Black men were proud, but were ground down by the Jim Crow south. There was a lot of abuse of wives and children by their elders.
The conditions for most Black families was 10 times worst than the poor white families. Many Black families escaped to the big cities of the North for a better life. In some cases, it was a better life. However, they were again segregated in the society of the Northern plantation. They worked in factories for little money and faced job denial in the trades, teaching, bus driving, and many, many private companies. This is the content of our dad's early life and the city he fled to. Our dad was conundrum: he took us as a family to the drivein movies all the time. Most times, he was a quite as a mouse.... didn't say much of anything. While working in his factory job, he was so tired when he got home ... he would fall asleep before our mom could fix his plate. Early on, we knew nothing but peace in our home. Our neighborhood friends thought we had the best dad in the projects. In 1963, our lives changed with an incident at our dad's job. For at least 6 months, he'd come home everyday telling our mom that the machine he worked on had a part that was damaged. He told her he feared that the part would fall off and he'd get hurt. Well, it happened... the part fell off and broke his foot. The factory fired him. Things changed in our home starting in 1964. I was 14 years old. Our proud dad became a broken man of sorts. However, he and my mom began hustling the odds and ends of throw away items rich people in the suburbs would give them. That became their Flea Market money which later became a store front on Madison Street. Next thing you know, they have petty of money and move out of the projects into their own home. They worked and worked and worked and worked as a couple for years and years and years.... long, long, long hours. They used the money from selling their Furniture store to buy a farm in Michigan. Me and my sisters and brothers and mom became Jehovah's Witnesses. He was totally against it. Yes. our dad had an alcohol problem beginning in 1964 after the accident in the factory. I sometimes wonder ... had it not been for that accident...the alcohol might not have existed. He was hurt emotionally and as a man. He warned them and told them many times. After it happened, they fired him. He never worked on a job again. Our dad was a very proud man.
Our family has been truly blessed. We learned things from our mom and dad. Jehovah did the rest. Personally, my dad made me psychologically strong. He made me take the time to investigate life.. ask questions and seek answers. Jehovah gave me hope that this life is not without meaning. There is more to life than food and substenance.... .... God has a plan for humankind. He didn't provide just this short stressful life. To emphasize this point: few people know that before 1935 because of diseases and poor nutrition the average life span was 35 years for the last 4000 years. Better nutrition, the discovery of penicillin and anti biotics and vaccines have increased our life span to 70 or 80 years. Do we really believe that this is all there this? My dad during the last 15 years of his life accepted the notion that more life beyond this existence made sense as a promise from God. Cars and houses are expensive. God gift is free.. you just need faith ... a belief that He created everything you see and He exists and He is real. And, one more thing: live your in love of others. By that gauge, the changes my dad made in the last 15 years, dad lived a successful life and will be awakened to the New Earth God has promised.
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elenor everson posted a condolence
Friday, April 30, 2021
Another memory and memories is our cruises with mom and dad and brothers and sisters and family reunions we had the best childhood dad took us to drive in movies every Saturday night and took mother
His girlfriend every Friday night station wagon with
Curtains that closed for them to watch movies and more importantly make all those kids Dad bought
My nom a brown paper bag everyday home from work her black walnut ice cream everyday he never missed
Her ice cream pint they were a very lovable loved each other we could pass their bedroom at any given time and they always always would cut each other's toe nails
All the time Dad opened all doors for mother that's how I knew how my cars were opened by Tony My dad was
A gentleman and he loved and adored Katie we knew
How marriage was because of them My Dad never abandoned his wife mother and he learned to work
Down south mother was determined to get her light
Skinned man she said she wanted pretty KIDS!!!!
I can remember so many good childhood memories
I worked for my father in his store on Madison st Chgo
I had to help them and I was blessed greatly oldest
Girl elenor:pray::pray::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::pray::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::pray:
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