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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Chapter Twelve: 1920 - 1929
Judy Canova (1913-1983), an American comedienne,
actress, singer, and radio personality who has a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures, was born in Starke but once lived
in Lake City and went to school there for a time. Local elementary
teacher Mrs. M.B. Wilder, who taught Judy and her siblings, Anna
and Zeke, in elementary school, once said she thought Zeke would
become the star because of his sterling performance in the first-grade
minstrel singing “Turkey in the Straw.” Actress Diana Canova is Judy’s
daughter.
1907 CHS class photo. The little girl marked with an arrow
is Anna Canova, sister of comedienne Judy Canova.
Rosebud Greer McColskey (CHS 1929) was the first
woman Director of Vocational Education in Florida.
The county superintendents of public instruction that decade
were James R. Lites (1917 - 1921), J.W. Burns (1921 - 1929),
and George R. Graham (1929 - 1936).
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