{"id":7403,"date":"2023-02-02T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:55:17","slug":"ruth-cowell-celebrates-her-100th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/ruth-cowell-celebrates-her-100th\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Cowell Celebrates Her 100th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7404 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruth-Cowell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by dozens of family members and friends, Ruth Cowell celebrated her 100<sup>th<\/sup> birthday last weekend at the Policemen\u2019s Hall on Franklin Street.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 24, 1923, Ruth Cowell is the mother of four: George Cowell, Reginald Cowell, Otis Walton (who is ill and could not attend the celebration) and Mildred Cowell (deceased).<\/p>\n<p>The hall was filled with grandchildren and great grandchildren to honor a woman who has spent so much time with her family, even when she ran her own business \u2013 Georgia Grill at 444 Indiana Avenue which closed in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts abounded, Karen \u201cLady K\u201d Harris opened the afternoon\u2019s festivities by serenading the birthday girl and her guests, and all enjoyed a buffet dinner to cap off the activities.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Cowell was also attended by her pastor, Rev. Curley Johnson of St. Mark\u2019s Missionary Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7405\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/328074908_1284158545479898_6885939161724485258_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7406\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Karen-Harris-opens-the-celebration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Karen-Harris-opens-the-celebration.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Karen-Harris-opens-the-celebration-275x300.jpg 275w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Karen-Harris-opens-the-celebration-229x250.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7407\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Reginald-Cowell-Ruth-Cowell-George-Cowell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7408\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rev.-Curley-Johnson-and-Grandson-Andre-Cowell-escort-Ruth-Cowell-to-her-place-of-honor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff Surrounded by dozens of family members and friends, Ruth Cowell celebrated her 100th birthday last weekend at the Policemen\u2019s Hall on Franklin Street. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 24, 1923, Ruth Cowell is the mother of four: George Cowell, Reginald Cowell, Otis Walton (who is ill and could not attend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[160],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}