While Opal Lee was sorely missed at her annual Juneteenth walk, her spirit was felt in the hundreds of people that participated in the annual Fort Worth event.
Lee watched the walk from home on Thursday at the advice of her doctor, her granddaughter Dione Sims said. This comes after Lee was hospitalized last month in Ohio, where she was honored with the International Freedom Conductor Award at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The original plan was for Lee to ride in her son’s truck ahead of the group, but Sims said she got a call early Thursday saying that the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” was staying home…