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Samella Brazil - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Portland (OR) Oregonian, November 5, 2003

Samella Brazil 

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, in Cox Funeral Home for Samella Brazil. 
She died Aug. 15 at age 83. Samella Turner was born Sept. 5, 1919, in Tallulah, La. She moved to Portland 
in the 1940s. She worked in the Kaiser shipyards during World War II, and later was a nurse's aide for 
Hall Sanitarium and Mt. Tabor Convalescent Hospital. She was a member of Emmanuel Temple Full Gospel 
Pentecostal Church. In 1958, she married Roosevelt; he died in 1967. 

Survivors include her daughters, Louise Noble and Rosie Lee "Doll" Kelly; brother, Sam Turner Jr.; sister, 
Mandy Solomon; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren. Her son Louis 
Kinsey Jr. died in 1940. 

Remembrances to Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Arrangements by Family Memorial.