Friends and family celebrate Houston native Miola Donahue Laws, who died Jan. 14 at the age of 103
Ninety-six year-old Miola Laws member of Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist church in Houston, Tx Tuesday March 3, 2015. Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist church is marking the church's 150th anniversary with a parade and by wearing the attire of the period in which the church was established.Perhaps no one in the world could lay claim to being a lifelong Houstonian quite like Miola Donahue Laws, who died Jan. 14 at 103.
Her passions were in music and the arts. Her father played the harmonica, and her mother was in her church choir. Laws followed in both of their footsteps, becoming a church pianist as a teenager, a playwright, and when she got her hands on a sewing machine, a fashion designer. Laws was also the Chairperson of the C.G. Wilkins Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to high school graduates.
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