![]() “She was a culture bearer, plain and simple.”įuneral services were held Saturday at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre followed by a traditional jazz procession. “She was always in the culture,” Kimble said. ![]() The original Baby Dolls were groups of black women, and some men, in the early Jim Crow era who adopted New Orleans street masking tradition as a unique form of fun and self-expression, according to the Louisiana State Museum website.Īndrews also co-founded the Lady Money Wasters Social Aid and Pleasure Club in 1975 and the Dumaine Street Gang in the 1990s. ![]() In the 1990s, Andrews and Kimble launched the Gold Digger Baby Dolls. “C’mon, Merline, we’re going to bring back the baby dolls,” Andrews told her.
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