Perched on a metal chair near St. John Fire Baptized Holiness Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant on a cool Friday morning, giving out church pamphlets to passers-by, was the lady known as Mama Beatrice Mobley—a lively, adorable, and beloved Brooklyn treasure.
“I came to New York when I was 19 years old, and I’ve been here for 79 years, and I’m a member here. Please, come and join our services.”
Married at 15, Mobley left the rural climes of Savannah, aged 19, leaving her husband and her 2-year-old son James with her family there. She came to Brooklyn, New York in 1945 and became a cook at the then-still segregated Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital. Utilizing her magnificent Southern-style cooking, she left her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment early in the morning to get to her 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift at the Navy Yard feeding the hundreds of people who came off of those ships to eat in the big cafeteria.
“I went to Florida for one year, I went to get my baby—he was 2 years old, and now he’ll be 80 years old next year in March, how’d you like that! I have 5 generations: my son, his daughter, her son, his daughter. Her advice for looking so beautiful, healthy, and fit after 96 years is, she says, “Living right and doing the right thing.
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