Guenveur family papers

Lauretta Bell Guenveur (née Goodall) was born to Rev. Lindsey Baxter and Emma Bell Goodall in Charleston, South Carolina on August 15, 1894. She was a 1915 graduate from the Avery Normal Institute and a charter member of the Entre Nous Bridge Club. She and her husband, Edward Leon Guenveur, Sr. ran a plumbing business together from their family home at 57 Coming Street in Charleston for fifty years.

Baxter Douglas Goodall was born to Rev. Lindsey Baxter and Emma Bell Goodall in Charleston, South Carolina on March 1, 1900. He graduated from the Avery Normal Institute, South Carolina State College, Howard University, and the University of Chicago. He served in the United States Navy and taught at the Joseph K. Brick Junior College in Bricks, North Carolina.

Florence Louise (Louise) Guenveur Streat was the first child born to Edward Leon and Lauretta Guenveur in Charleston, South Carolina on July 30, 1921. She graduated as the valedictorian of her class at Immaculate Conception High School and later attended and graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana and Columbia University. In 1944, she was hired as a faculty member in the Home Economics Department at Bennett College. She taught at Bennett until her retirement as Professor and Chair of the Department of Home Economics in 1984.

Helen Guenveur Smith was born to Edward Leon and Lauretta Guenveur in Charleston, South Carolina on August 3, 1923. She graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana and the Meharry Medical College's School of Dentistry. She started her private practice in Berkely, California and worked as a dentist for fifty years. After she married her husband, Sherman W. Smith, Sr., in 1954, the couple moved to Los Angeles and opened the Palm Vue Motel together. She also was the founder of the Watts Health Foundation and a cofounder of the New Frontier Democratic Club.