Church honors nonagenarians for Women’s Day

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Price Memorial AME Zion Church, 920 Dryden Ave., will host its annual Women’s Day Celebration at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Co-chairwomen Anne R. Cobbin and Betty Crafter-Royal will recognize 16 nonagenarian members of the church. A dinner to honor the women will take place at 2 p.m. at The Embassy Banquet Center, 2030 Youngstown-Poland Road. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Price Memorial by calling 330-743-1339.

Honorees are Edrice Clark, Bessie Duck, Naomi Henderson, Rose Henderson, Madge Lyons, Ethel McMullen, Marianna Morgan, Helen Porter, Mary Robinson, Eloise Smith, Ruth Squire, Bernice Starks, Gertha Stewart, Callie Womack, Henrietta Young and Louise Young.

The guest speaker will be the Rev. Rachel Oliver-Cobbin, 1986 Miss Black America and former lead singer for the R&B band Atlantic Starr.

Rev. Mrs. Oliver-Cobbin serves as associate minister at Ebenezer United Church of Christ in Burlington, N.C. In her community, she is active with the Democratic Women of Alamance County and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

Mrs. Oliver-Cobbin graduated from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. She is an integral part of the church’s music ministry as the praise and worship leader and as director of choirs.

She is married to Keith J. Cobbin, and they have two children.