The year in notable Lehigh Valley deaths includes those who left an indelible mark on the careers they chose, the communities they served, or the people they inspired.
Zora Martin Felton, the first Black woman to graduate from Moravian College for Women in 1952, died in March at age 91. She is remembered as a trailblazer and force for positive change in her community, both while growing up in the Lehigh Valley and during her career in Washington, D.C., as a museum curator.
Memoir: How I got my name and learned about Portugal – By Diogo Teixeira
Posted on 14 February 2021.
This is a story about how I got my Portuguese name and learned about Portugal as a child.
It begins with my parents, who met in New York City, in 1943, during World War II. He basically picked her up one hot August day on a returning beach train. Each thought the other was attractive. The next day he called her at a boarding hotel, where it was then the fashion for young unmarried ladies to live. Two weeks later he proposed – a very short courtship – even by the standards of the day. And two months later they were to be married in the chapel at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.