Tommie Lou Byrd Popich was born November 6, 1925 in Norfolk, AK, to the late Evelyn M. Murphy and Thomas E. Byrd. She was also the half-sister of the late Ginger Edgar. Tommie Lou was accepted into nursing school after her senior year of high school in Monroe, LA., but a young corp man named Joseph Anthony Popich, changed her mind. In 1946, Tommie and Joe were married. Three children were born ...
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