Article: Jean Williams Wade, Amsterdam News classifieds manager, dies at 87

Bowser, A.J.
New York Amsterdam News
02-21-2001
Jean Williams Wade, Amsterdam News classifieds manager, dies at 87

Jean Williams Wade died in New York, Sunday, Feb. 11, of complications of
the heart. She was 87 years old.

She was born Oct. 30, 1913, the oldest of five daughters, to Walter and
Mamie Williams of Kansas City, Mo. Her life was filled with careers in the
newspaper, legal, federal government and insurance industries.

After graduating from Lincoln High School in 1930, she attended the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She married David Wade and moved to New
York City, where she worked for a weekly African-American newspaper.

Wade was the classifieds manager at ...

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