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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore

1909–1986

United States

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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore (1909–1986) was a business leader and civil rights advocate. She was the first woman to be licensed as an assistant funeral director in Kanawha County, West Virginia on October 28, 1938, and as a funeral director on November 12, 1940. She opened the Harden and Harden Funeral Home in 1947 (now listed on the National Register of Historic Places).

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