Local Legacy Business Continues to âPay it Forwardâ During Covid-19
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The James H. Cole Legacy Foundation is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that supports community-based groups that seek to encourage economic growth and prosperity among the citizens of Detroit through education, inspiration, and guidance. Our goal is to aid in the upward mobility of those individuals who strive to better themselves, their family, and their community.
After spending 100 years in the Detroit community and giving back through employing numerous employees from Detroit and providing affordable and quality service to residents during their most difficult time, the company formally established the James H. Cole Legacy Foundation at the end of 2019.
Rose Marie Dickens Swanson was an exemplary educator and a nationally admired community leader who served Detroit students with unwavering compassion while raising her own three children and serving as a role model to countless others.
“She loved children and she was a wonderful educator and administrator,” said her lifelong friend Mattie Jones Johnson of Southfield. “She was a scholar who blazed a trail for others to follow.”
Swanson, 83, died Dec. 15 in Denver, Colorado, where she had relocated a few years ago to be closer to two of her three children. After battling and recovering from COVID-19 this summer, Swanson passed away due to several other health complications.