Powell birthday

Friday, July 18, 2014
Zilah Naomi Powell

Zilah Naomi Powell of South Carolina will celebrate her 100th birthday July 27. She was born in Grant, Nebraska, and grew up in Stratton, Nebraska. A 1932 graduate of Stratton High School, she taught 12 grades in a one-room school house in 1934-35. She is the daughter of Nola Pember Bailey, a former milliner and prominent business woman of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Seymour E. Bailey, a baseball pitcher and member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. An open house will be at Somerby Assisted Living in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Her family includes her husband, the late W. J. Powell; daughter, Yvonne Powell and grandsons, Ryan and Sean Carper of Mount Pleasant, and son, William and Darlene Powell; grandchildren, Jeff Powell and Michele and Jason Tate; and great-grandson, Nick Powell, all of Littleton, Colorado. Cards of congratulations will reach her in care of Yvonne Powell, 3460 Mulligan Dr., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466.