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Esther Gordy Edwards

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Edwards founded the Gordy Printing Company with two of her brothers in the mid-1940s. With her husband, they created the Ber-Berry Co-Op, which was intended to provide loans to family members. Her younger brother Berry reportedly asked for an $ 800 loan to help start Motown Records in 1959. After
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Motown became established, Edwards took an active role in management and booking tours, and founded the legendary Motortown Revue in the 1962. While at Motown, Edwards took on a motherly role towards some of the label's younger acts. In the mid-1960s, she served as Motown's vice president and
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in 1972. Edwards later served on the board for the Detroit Bank of Commonwealth and the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce.
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Esther died surrounded by family and friends, following a long illness, at her
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Esther Gordy Edwards was born to Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy in
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In 1985, Edwards became the director of the Motown Historical Museum (
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home in Detroit on August 24, 2011. She was 91 years old.
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label during the 1960s. Edwards created the Motown Museum,
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Washington County, Georgia
Detroit
Michigan
Woodlawn Cemetery
Cass Technical High School
Anna Gordy Gaye
Gwen Gordy Fuqua
Berry Gordy
Robert Gordy
Berry Gordy
Motown
Hitsville U.S.A.
Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Washington County, Georgia
Detroit
Michigan
Anna
Gwen
Robert
the family
Cass Technical High School
Howard University
chief executive officer
Smokey Robinson
Hitsville U.S.A.
Jefferson Towers


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