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IN MEMORIAM New Journal and Guide remembers Norfolk NAACP Stalwart Melinease Hutchinson - The New Journal and Guide

By Leonard E. Colvin

Chief Reporter

New Journal and Guide

Melinease F. Hightower Hutchinson  90, a longtime leader of the Norfolk and regional NAACP, died July 22.

  Mrs. Hutchison was born in Orlando, Florida, on June 10, 1930, to UlysesThompson and David Hightower.  She graduated from Washington

Irving High School and attended New York City College where she studied accounting.

She was one of the first Black women  accountants at CBS Studios, Inc., in New York for more than 25 years.

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