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The Lyric Market sold general groceries and meats at 171 South Street in Oyster Bay

Bessie Custis moved from Virginia to Oyster Bay in 1936 and took on domestic work. Helen De Loach of Bayville, NY, provided this undated reference.

Receipt from North Country Community Hospital in Glen Cove, NY.

Doretha Custis with her mother Bessie and Miss Prula James

Bessie Custis, mother of Doretha Custis, at Kayler Fish Market in Oyster Bay, below her second-floor apartment

Bessie and Samuel Custis, parents of Doretha Custis, at the Bombers Club on South Street in Oyster Bay

Samuel Custis, father of Doretha Custis, with Carlos James in Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park during World War II.

Bessie Custis with her cousin Dorothy Cousins in Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park

Birthday party "in the alley" off Summit Street in Oyster Bay. Nona Marshall at center was one Of Oyster Bay's first African American cheerleader

Bessie Custis, mother of Doretha Custis, in Virginia