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Poverty fighter dies in car crash

Posted May 12, 2010

Source: Rutland Herald, May 11, 2010

By Kevin O’Connor

“When Edna Fairbanks-Williams found herself abandoned with five young children almost 50 years ago, she accepted a friend’s loan to buy an old Ford, then made the money back driving around scrubbing other people’s cottages and sewing other people’s clothes.

“My friend said, ‘Give it to someone else that could use it,’” she recalled after trying to repay the favor. “I did, and I’ve been doing it ever since.” [More ...]

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