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Mar 16, 2021
CANFIELD –Alex Chismar was welcomed to heaven on the morning of Friday, March 12, 2021, by Carol, his loving wife of 70 years and his grandson, Brad Blakeman. He was 96 years old.
Alex was born Nov. 21, 1924, in Youngstown to John and Catherine Parimucha Chismar. He spent his younger years with his many cousins and large family in the area.
Alex married his wife, Carol Basinger of Columbiana, in 1948, and built their home in Greenford, where they raised their three children and many grandchildren.
Alex worked as a carpenter, building many homes in the Canfield and Austintown areas with his cousin, Steve Parry. He also worked as a barber and at the GE Lamp Plant, prior to his retirement in 1985.
When COVID-19 testing became more available in Tuscaloosa last spring, community advocates like Judith Zambrano worried that Latino residents weren’t getting tested.
Some people were afraid of finding out they might be positive. Others didn’t have time off work or the transportation to get to test sites. Many were nervous about identification or insurance questions, Zambrano explained.
Holy Spirit Catholic Church of Tuscaloosa, which holds services in Spanish, responded by hosting drive-through test centers in the late afternoon hours of summer.
“We went over the amount of tests we had and it went on until night time,” said Zambrano, who is an organizer with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and a Holy Spirit parishioner. “It was successful because people put a lot of trust in the church. Often more than they do in a doctor they’ve never met.”
Memorial service for Mrs. Minnie Miriam Westbrook Kyle of Peoria, IL will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 26, 2020 at Zion Baptist Church, 323 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Peoria, Illinois. Graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, December 28, 2020, at Valhalla Memorial Gardens.
She transitioned to her heavenly home at 12:46 am on Monday, December 21, 2020 at her residence surrounded by her family. Born to Horace Greeley and Viola Ellison Westbrook in Elgin, Texas, Minnie Miriam Westbrook Kyle was the last survivor of ten children. Nicknamed “Baby Sis,” she grew up on a “truck farm” and saved the money she earned picking cotton to partially pay for her higher education. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Prairie View A&M University and the Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama, prior to pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Houston.