Mae Glover
Lillie Mae Glover, 76, Dies; Emulated Singer Ma Rainey
April 05, 1985|From Times Wire ServicesMEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lillie Mae Glover, who ran away from home at 13 to sing in a traveling medicine show, will be buried Monday after a funeral procession down Beale Street, the nightclub district that the blues made famous.Since 1939, Miss Glover had performed as Ma Rainey II, after the legendary blues singer who died that year and who she emulated.
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