
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 27, 1994                   TAG: 9403270061
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E-4   EDITION: METRO 
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PEARL GALLOWAY DIES AT AGE 101

Pearl Galloway, whose birthday parties drew congressmen, mayors and neighbors alike, died Thursday. She was 101.

Known as "Ma Pearl" by scores of great-great-grandchildren and other descendants, Galloway drew 150 or more people to some of her birthday parties.

Her son, Dennis Galloway Jr., said then-Rep. Jim Olin was among the droves of guests who came to wish his mother a happy 100th birthday at the Sheraton in 1992.

She was known through her large and active family - seven children, 14 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and 28 great-great-grandchildren - and because of her club work. She was one of the first members of the old Big Lick Garden Club.

"She only went to the fifth grade, but she wrote poetry, she made dolls and ceramics, she knitted, she crocheted," said daughter Jean Powell.

Galloway moved her seven children from West Virginia to Roanoke after the death of her husband, Dennis Galloway Sr., in a coal mining accident. When redevelopment began to change her Fourth Street Northeast home, she moved to Ordway Drive in Northwest Roanoke.

Galloway's funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church.

by CNB