Frankie Rolle Rattler Basketball great dead at 89

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Frankie Shannon Rolle 
Frankie Shannon Rolle who captained FAMU’s undefeated 1943 women's  basketball team and became only the fourth woman inducted into FAMU’s sports Hall of Fame in 1979 has died. She was 89 years old.

Rolle was a 1946 physical education graduate of Florida A&M, and earned her master’s in guidance counseling and school administration at Indiana University, at a time when southern universities would not admit blacks into grad school.


According to a Miami Herald article, Rolle is credited with transforming Miami's Coconut Grove community into a real-life CheersThe old TV sitcom’s theme song touted the fictional bar’s reputation for drawing people together, “where everybody knows your name.”


Rolle and her late husband, jazz musician Billy Rolle, also are responsible for bringing to life the Grove's famed Goombay Festival, along with a group of merchants from Grand Avenue and the Bahamas Tourist Office in the mid-1970s, the article said.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931251/educator-coconut-grove-matriarch.html#storylink=cpy


“She was like the matriarch of this community,” said Barbara Jordan, who served with Rolle on the board of the Helen B. Bentley Community Health Center in Coconut Grove.
“Whatever there was that needed to be done, Frankie would step in and do her share. She was like a mother to many people,” Jordan said. “You would be surprised at the number of people she helped with getting an education.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931251/educator-coconut-grove-matriarch.html#storylink=cpy



Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931251/educator-coconut-grove-matriarch.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931251/educator-coconut-grove-matriarch.html#storylink=cpy

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