Mary D. Seal Grady

 Beautician

Born:September 19, 1911, Woodbury, Tennessee
Died:March 25, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee

Notes:

•  Daughter of Audrey and Lov F. Seals. - Ancestry.com

•  Mary D. Seal married Lowell "Toad" Grady September 18, 1929 in Madison County, Alabama. Lowell was born about 1910 in Alabama and died June 26, 1972 in Huntsville, Alabama. - MCRC

•  Attached to the Ancestry.com page is this comment:
     "My Aunt Mary Dee belonged to the highest organization in hairdressing. The Official Hair Fashion Committee. This was a very political and prestigious organization. She went to all the national meetings, was even an officer I think. I was so impressed. As a hairdresser, I just thought it was way 'COOL.'" - Ancestry.com

•  President, Alabama Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association, 1970; Sgt.-at-Arms, National Hairdressers and Cosmetologist Association, 1971. - Record

•  This published in 1955:
     "Grady's Beauty Shop was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Grady April 6, 1946. It is located at 509 Seminole Drive in Huntsville, Alabama.
     This beauty shop offers the following products: Zotos and Realistic Permanent Waves; Theo Bender, Monique, Revelon, and Mary Lowell Cosmetics. At this shop, the public is offered the very latest in hair styling. They have served the area for nine years, with the hope for this to continue into the future.
     There are five people employed at this shop. The manager is Mary Grady. Workers are Lockie Hegwood, Louetta Black, Louise Aston, and Ruth Vaughn.
     When Mrs. Grady opened her shop in 1946, she was the only person working. The business has increased enough to employ four others.
     The Gladys' plan to expand their business in the spring to include two more booths and two more workers.
     Mrs. Grady was born in Woodbury, Tennessee. She came to Huntsville in 1924. She is a member of the Central Church of Christ. She is affiliated with the North Alabama Hairdressers Association, and the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association." - Sesquicentennial


Related Links:

•  Ancestry.com - Page owned by Grady Katherine and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/38025257/person/19173532105.)

•  MCRC - Madison County Records Center, marriage.

•  Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume 2, by James Record, printed in 1978, page 675.

•  Sesquicentennial - Commemorative Album, Celebrating our City's Sesquicentennial of Progress, Huntsville, Alabama, by James E. Taylor, General Chairman, 1955, pages 276 & 347.


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