Barbara Jean Harris Thomas

To the family of Ms. Barbara, I only met her a couple of times during Thanksgiving one year we spent together and coming to Cleveland a couple summers ago, we had a good sis to sister time in the back yard. She was a good hearted person and an easy person to talk to...my mother (Ms. ALice) was crazy about her..she is gone but not forgotten....she was the grandmother to my two neices (Ryanne and Andrea)...may God bless her remaining family.

from....Lesia's sister (Leola Robinson Bateman

To the family,
Your mother was & is to me truly a good strong woman. She is truly
someone to be acknowleged coming from an era & time in our history when women of color did not accomplish higher education in numbers as we do today well she did that & some
while raising her children.
She lived & loved hard. I know this
because she is the Grandmother of my 2 daughters.
To Rick & Beverly its been an honor
to have known your Mom.

Love Lesia

I still remember the very first time I met "B.J." as she affectionately introduced herself to me. She was my nurse during my delivery of my son in 1989 at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She later was my nurse in 1992 for the birth of my daughter, and still was the same loving person I met the years before. I had a situation that I had to make a decision about, and she was there to guide me through that decision. I later had the pleasure of running into her while she worked at Will Care, and it was like...