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To designate the 2900 block of Brook Road, between Hammond Avenue and Sherwood Avenue, in honor of Ellalee Fountain Flowers.
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WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Ellalee Fountain Flowers was born in Jackson Ward on November 16, 1923, and educated in Richmond Public Schools, graduating at the top of her class from Armstrong High School.
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Ms. Flowers went on to earn her Bachelor of Business Administration from Virginia State University and her Master of Education from Columbia University; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Ms. Flowers taught business courses from 1945 to 1979 at Maggie L. Walker High School, retiring as head of its Business Department, in addition to teaching night school for adult and elementary school students and serving as a faculty member of the Virginia Union University Sydney Lewis School of Business from 1979 to 1987; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Ms. Flowers' accomplishments at the time of her passing on May 15, 2022, included being an active member of Delta Sigma Sorority, Inc., for 80 years of collegiate and alumni community service, and serving as the chair of the Richmond Alumni Chapter's Habitat for Humanity and Political Awareness committees, in addition to being a lifelong member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for which she held the post of secretary for the Richmond chapter; and
WHEREAS, upon information and belief of the Council, Ms. Flowers was related to two very community service-oriented men, first, as the wife of Stafford Flowers, a well-known Richmond educator who taught vocational education at Virginia Randolph School and Thomas Jefferson High School and was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Business League and a director of the National Business League, and, second, as the daughter-in-law of James T. Flowers, owner of the James Flowers Bricklayi...
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