Edna Tyner Gross

Left Edna Marie Tyner Gross and right Shirley Delores Tyner students at Lakeland Elementary School from 1945-46 school year

On a summer Sunday morning in 1942, from left to right, Martha Edwards, Evelyn Giles Tyner, and Tyner’s sister, Lucille Giles, ushers for Embry A.M.E. Church, walked to church with Tyner’s daughters, Edna and Shirley. The Edwards garden is visible on the left; the Giles house is off to the right.