Daily News | Congressional Gold Medals for groundbreaking wartime service awarded to two Philly brothers
While growing up in West Philadelphia, Sandra Fuller experienced her uncles Alfonzia and Timerlate Kirven as “unassuming guys.”
But Fuller, 77, gradually learned of a significant historical backdrop to the steady lives her uncles had in Philadelphia in the decades following World War II. Alfonzia and Timerlate were Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans allowed in that branch of the U.S. military, starting in 1942.
Posthumous recognition for the Kirven brothers came Saturday during a ceremony at Calvary Gospel Chapel in West Philadelphia. Fuller and her cousin Albert W. Newman received replicas on behalf of their uncles, who were born in South Carolina. Timerlate died in 1985, Alfonzia in 1997.“I want them to know that they are connected to a bigger picture of who they are as people,” especially the young men, who “feel a sense of abandonment,” Fuller said.
Close to 20,000 men went through Montfort Point from 1942 to 1949, when it was decommissioned, said Joe Geeter, president of the association’s Philadelphia chapter. “We’ve only awarded about 2,000 of them” nationwide, Geeter said.
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