Mozelle Marshall Retires
From F. W. Woolworth After
43 Years
»y Jaiyne Strong
Post Staff Writer
“I wa* getting too old to work. But
if I wasn’t getting old,” reflects
MozeUe Marshall, “I wouldn’t be
here, I’d be dead. Thank God, He has
brought me this far.” Following 43
years of employment with F. W.
Wool worth, uptown Charlotte, Mar
shall has retired. ,
About her many years with the
company, Marshall admits, “I have
r«Uy enjoyed the good and have
endured the bad.” She recalls get
ting her job with Wool worth when
she was 15 years old. Marshall was
hired as a cook in the store’s res
taurant during a time when Wool
worth would hire blacks but al
lowed no black customers, and
blacks who worked there had no
contact with white customers.
"We could cook for whites but we
couldn’t serve them and we could
--
not eat with them,” Marshall states
matter-of-factly. “The only thing we
could do was cook or wash dishes.” t'j
“I prayed that it would all come to
an end,” Marshall says. And
among the many things she has seen
come and go while working at
Wool worth one of them was segre
gation.
“I was there, at the store, when
the sit-in for integration happened,
in 19M.” she recalls.
It is all like water washed under
the bridge to Marshall now. “God
has saved me,” she affirms. “I’ve
learned to accept everyone.” When
her job began to entail bath cooking
and waitressing, it didn’t matter to
Marshall whether the people waiting
to be served were black or white, she
greeted each one with a customary,
“Can I help you, hon?"
Marshall acknowledged that she
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Mozelle Marshall
.Ends “outstanding" career
enjoyed cooking while working at
Woolworth but now that she has
retired, she laughs, “I’m going to
give up cooking.” She is not
planning any major retirement ce
lebration and, unfortunately, the
dream trip she had planned on has
had to be postponed. “TO go to the
Holy Land has been my desire for a
long time,” confesses Marshall.
“But there is fighting going on about
20 miles from there now.”
Marshall’s not giving up her hope
to still go to Israel some day. “I’ve
saved up for the trip. I’m going to
take my sister when I go,” she says.
She then mentions that her sister, ,
Mable Miller, also worked awhile at
Woolworth when she was very
young. Her sister, though, left the
store and Charlotte, relocating in
New York. "She has been a nurse
there for 20 years,” tells Mar
shall.
With the trip put off for awhile. !
Marshall still has other plans with
which to fill her time. She states that
before she retired last week, ”1 was
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ago." And retirement hasn’t taken
away any of her energy. “I’m
going to do volunteer work at a
hospital." she projects.
“I want to help someone,” re
veals Marshall. “I want to help
someone who may be sick or needs
help and to talk to them about the
Lord. If I can help one person in His
name the angels in heaven rejoice.”
Marshall's husband, Eugene, is
deceased and the couple had no
children. Marshall lives with her two
dogs. Prince and Snoopy. “I
named the one Snoopy because be is
so wild,” smiles Marshall.
Now that she is retired and ad
mits she’s very happy about it,
Marshall will have lots of time to
spend doing her most-loved activi
ties. "I love going to church,” she
says. Marshall attends Woodland
Presbyterian, Rev. Emmanel Wash
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church choir.
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