The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school. Crossing guard Latanya Sullivan – affectionately known as Ms. Tanya – was a fixture outside Ray Elementary School for more than 25 years.
“This is Ms. Tanya’s post for many, many years,” Ray Elementary mom Michelle Jefferson said of the intersection of 57th and Kimbark. “She was an auntie to everybody.”
For 26 years, no kid from Ray Elementary crossed the street alone. Ms. Tanya made sure of that…