From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Whiteside, Birdie Mary Lee

(born: 1911  -  died: March 21, 2004) 

Birdie Mary Lee Whiteside was born in Hopkinsville, KY (Fern Creek), the daughter of Augusta Radford Jordan and Arkley Whiteside. She founded the Guiding Light Christian Service in 1953 in Indianapolis, IN, designed to take recorded religious sermons to the sick and shut-in. Six years later the service was incorporated.

Whiteside had moved to Indianapolis in 1950. She was a graduate of Simmons University (KY). She  died in 2004 and is buried in New Crown Cemetery.

For more see the Birdie L. Whiteside Collection, 1944-1986 at the Indiana Historical Society; and the Birdie Whiteside Obituary at legacy.com.

Kentucky County & Region

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Read about Hopkinsville, Kentucky in Wikipedia.

Outside Kentucky Place Name

Indianapolis, Indiana

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NKAA Entry: Simmons College (Louisville, KY)

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“Whiteside, Birdie Mary Lee,” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed September 8, 2024, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1213.

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