{"id":1819,"date":"2014-02-04T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:32:05","slug":"pike-flora-mae-milner-1893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"PIKE, FLORA MAE MILNER, 1893-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civic and community leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 17, 1893, Tallapoosa County. Parents&#8211; Henry Harrison and Eliza (Phillips) Milner. Married&#8211; Ether J. Pike, 1911. Children&#8211; Five. Army Mothers Club, charter member and state chaplain;\u00a0 Women&#8217;s Chamber of Commerce, board member; organized several civic and church organizations.\u00a0 Named Alabama Woman of the Year, 1959, by United Press International Radio and Television; twice nominated for Birmingham Woman of the Year.\u00a0Received a\u00a0Certificate of Honor from the USA for her work during World War II. \u00a0Served on the WPA advisory board and chairman of Books for Soldiers in the South Pacific. Died March 2, 1990.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Distinguished, 1973-1974.\u00a0 Biographical note in Memories through the Years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Memories Through the Years. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, ca. 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Civic and community leader. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 17, 1893, Tallapoosa County. Parents&#8211; Henry Harrison and Eliza (Phillips) Milner. Married&#8211; Ether J. Pike, 1911. Children&#8211; Five. Army Mothers Club, charter member and state chaplain;\u00a0 Women&#8217;s Chamber of Commerce, board member; organized several civic and church organizations.\u00a0 Named Alabama Woman of the Year, 1959, by United Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}