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Article: ROOM DEDICATED TO DEAF ADVOCATE; CAROUSEL CENTER CEREMONY PAYS TRIBUTE TO MATTIE LETHAM, WHO DIED MAY 29.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2004
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Byline: Marnie Eisenstadt Staff writer
Mildred Berry remembers clutching her older sister's hand as the two rode a public bus in Syracuse.
Berry, who was 10 at the time, was petrified she would get lost in all the people in her sister's new home city.
But what she remembers even more vividly than her own trepidation was that her sister, Mattie Letham, was fearless.
"I was totally awed," she said. That's because Letham, then in her 20s, had recently lost both her hearing and sight.
Letham lost her hearing because of nerve damage and gradually lost her eyesight to a disease similar to glaucoma, she had told The Post-Standard.
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