Soft-spoken, kind and very much a lady, Mrs. Velma Ford’s aged hands have touched a time and place in history that few people have experienced, remember or have only read about in novels or history books. She wears her salt and pepper hair in a beautiful, elegant updo and to look at her one would never surmise that she is approaching ninety-three years of age. Her lovely smile is always intact, and she is known as a praying, faithful lady to her God and a strong matriarch to her family.