Civic leader; author.\u00a0 Born– February 22, 1914.\u00a0 Parents–Alfred Louis and\u00a0 Anna Louise Morriss Staples.\u00a0 Married–Sidney P. van Antwerp, February 6, 1946.\u00a0 Children– four.\u00a0 Married–W. J. Hearin, 1981.\u00a0 Education– Murphy High School, Mobile, graduated 1934; Holton Arms School, Washington, DC.\u00a0 Active in many civic and charitable causes; Chair of the Civilian Defense Bureau in World War II; Member of the Board of the Alabama Historical Commission and the Museum of the City of Mobile; Member and president, Mobile Historical Homes Tours and Historic Mobile Preservation Society, and others.\u00a0 Selected Mobile Mardi Gras Queen, 1934; Club Woman of the Year, 1965; First Lady of Mobile, 1975; Mobilian of the Year, 1992.\u00a0 Died February 27, 2005.<\/p>\n
Sources; <\/strong><\/p>\n Who’s Who in Alabama, vol. 3; Anniston Star, March 4, 1984; obituary, Mobile Register, February 28, 2005.<\/p>\n Publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n Canopy of Oaks; Streetscapes.\u00a0\u00a0 Mobile; Streetscapes, Inc., 1986.<\/p>\n Colonels, Cotton, and Camellias; Dedication and Tribute to our Courageous Forebearers [sic]… Mobile, 1990.<\/p>\n Downtown Goes Uptown.\u00a0 Mobile, AL; First Southern Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1983.<\/p>\n Iron Ore to Iron Lace.\u00a0 Mobile; Museum of the City of Mobile, 1980.<\/p>\n Let the Good Times Roll:\u00a0 Mobile, Mother of Mystics.\u00a0 Mobile, 1981.<\/p>\n Traditions of Candlelight Christmas.\u00a0 S.L., s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n Joint publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n Queens of Mobile Mardi Gras, 1893-1986.\u00a0 Mobile; Museum of the City of Mobile, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Civic leader; author.\u00a0 Born– February 22, 1914.\u00a0 Parents–Alfred Louis and\u00a0 Anna Louise Morriss Staples.\u00a0 Married–Sidney P. van Antwerp, February 6, 1946.\u00a0 Children– four.\u00a0 Married–W. J. Hearin, 1981.\u00a0 Education– Murphy High School, Mobile, graduated 1934; Holton Arms School, Washington, DC.\u00a0 Active in many civic and charitable causes; Chair of the Civilian Defense Bureau in World War […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}