The only child of George and Cora B. (Jackson) Winkfield, Artemesia was born at Utteringtown, a former village east of Lexington, Kentucky. Her father was the son of August "Gus" Winkfield, an older brother of the world famous African American jockey Jimmy Winkfield.
Artemesia graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio with a B.S. degree in Home Economics and pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago, University of Iowa and University of Kentucky.
By 1939 she is known to have been an instructor at the Lincoln Institute, a prestigious black boarding school headed by Whitney M. Young, Sr. in Shelby County. She later returned to teach in Lexington.
On 30 Jun 1940 she married William Clyde Brummell, then a social worker residing at Louisville. She remained in Lexington, teaching at Douglas High School until at least the beginning of 1943 before removing to Louisville where she became the home economics instructor and food services supervisor at the Ridgewood division of the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home at Anchorage. She retired from teaching at the Ormsby Village division of the Children's Home in 1970. In January 1986 she gave a recorded interview for a state oral history project on the Children's Home, one of over a dozen former staff members to be part of that project.
She became the first ordained woman deacon at Louisville's Plymouth Congregational Church. She served on the board of the YMCA/YWCA and was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
In May of 1997, she moved to South Orange, NJ, to live with her son, William C. "Bill" Brummell and daughter-in-law, Jeanette.
Artemesia's obituary appeared in Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper of Friday, 09 July 2004.
Information for this memorial taken from censuses, directories, news reports and other documented sources.
Artemesia graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio with a B.S. degree in Home Economics and pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago, University of Iowa and University of Kentucky.
By 1939 she is known to have been an instructor at the Lincoln Institute, a prestigious black boarding school headed by Whitney M. Young, Sr. in Shelby County. She later returned to teach in Lexington.
On 30 Jun 1940 she married William Clyde Brummell, then a social worker residing at Louisville. She remained in Lexington, teaching at Douglas High School until at least the beginning of 1943 before removing to Louisville where she became the home economics instructor and food services supervisor at the Ridgewood division of the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home at Anchorage. She retired from teaching at the Ormsby Village division of the Children's Home in 1970. In January 1986 she gave a recorded interview for a state oral history project on the Children's Home, one of over a dozen former staff members to be part of that project.
She became the first ordained woman deacon at Louisville's Plymouth Congregational Church. She served on the board of the YMCA/YWCA and was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
In May of 1997, she moved to South Orange, NJ, to live with her son, William C. "Bill" Brummell and daughter-in-law, Jeanette.
Artemesia's obituary appeared in Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper of Friday, 09 July 2004.
Information for this memorial taken from censuses, directories, news reports and other documented sources.
The only child of George and Cora B. (Jackson) Winkfield, Artemesia was born at Utteringtown, a former village east of Lexington, Kentucky. Her father was the son of August "Gus" Winkfield, an older brother of the world famous African American jockey Jimmy Winkfield.
Artemesia graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio with a B.S. degree in Home Economics and pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago, University of Iowa and University of Kentucky.
By 1939 she is known to have been an instructor at the Lincoln Institute, a prestigious black boarding school headed by Whitney M. Young, Sr. in Shelby County. She later returned to teach in Lexington.
On 30 Jun 1940 she married William Clyde Brummell, then a social worker residing at Louisville. She remained in Lexington, teaching at Douglas High School until at least the beginning of 1943 before removing to Louisville where she became the home economics instructor and food services supervisor at the Ridgewood division of the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home at Anchorage. She retired from teaching at the Ormsby Village division of the Children's Home in 1970. In January 1986 she gave a recorded interview for a state oral history project on the Children's Home, one of over a dozen former staff members to be part of that project.
She became the first ordained woman deacon at Louisville's Plymouth Congregational Church. She served on the board of the YMCA/YWCA and was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
In May of 1997, she moved to South Orange, NJ, to live with her son, William C. "Bill" Brummell and daughter-in-law, Jeanette.
Artemesia's obituary appeared in Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper of Friday, 09 July 2004.
Information for this memorial taken from censuses, directories, news reports and other documented sources.
Artemesia graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio with a B.S. degree in Home Economics and pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago, University of Iowa and University of Kentucky.
By 1939 she is known to have been an instructor at the Lincoln Institute, a prestigious black boarding school headed by Whitney M. Young, Sr. in Shelby County. She later returned to teach in Lexington.
On 30 Jun 1940 she married William Clyde Brummell, then a social worker residing at Louisville. She remained in Lexington, teaching at Douglas High School until at least the beginning of 1943 before removing to Louisville where she became the home economics instructor and food services supervisor at the Ridgewood division of the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home at Anchorage. She retired from teaching at the Ormsby Village division of the Children's Home in 1970. In January 1986 she gave a recorded interview for a state oral history project on the Children's Home, one of over a dozen former staff members to be part of that project.
She became the first ordained woman deacon at Louisville's Plymouth Congregational Church. She served on the board of the YMCA/YWCA and was a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
In May of 1997, she moved to South Orange, NJ, to live with her son, William C. "Bill" Brummell and daughter-in-law, Jeanette.
Artemesia's obituary appeared in Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper of Friday, 09 July 2004.
Information for this memorial taken from censuses, directories, news reports and other documented sources.
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