Juanita Harrell Stewart

Juanita Harrell Stewart
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Juanita Harrell Stewart 

Juanita Harrell Stewart was born in 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Edgar Harrell, Sr. and Minnie Nolan Harrell. She was the eldest of their two children. She had a younger brother, Clarence E. Harrell. In 2008, she passed away in Kentwood, Louisiana. Juanita was a lifelong member of Petty AME Church in New Orleans. She worked as a typist for Standard Life Insurance Company. She was a seamstress and an Eastern Star. She graduated from McDonogh #35 in 1935. She married Isaac Stewart in 1945 and had two children Michael Stewart and Gwendolyn L. Stewart.