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From St. Louis, MO she was one of seven children of Henry and Ella Brown Campbell; only three of the seven children lived to adulthood. Her father died in 1924 and with her mothers failing health a factor; Campbell left school in the eighth grade to work. Becoming a single parent of several children young Campbell went on AFDC and read to educate herself. Married several times in 1936, she and her husband LeRoy Wash migrated to Detroit, MI. "One day I had a vision," she was quoted once, "The Lord told me to feed the hungry and clothe the naked." Her husband, Payton Waddles, a former Ford Motor Company worker who died in 1980, supported Mother and the children while she rounded up neighbors and fellow churchgoers to start the Mission. With an eighth-grade education in the late 1960’s Reverend Charleszetta (Mother) Waddles founded a comprehensive social services agency; the Perpetual Mission that serves the low-income communities of Detroit. Privately funded and staffed by volunteers, the Mission now helps approximately 90,000 annually. The list of the Mission's services includes emergency aid, job training, a graphic arts program and a culinary arts school. Those seeking help from the Mission include unwed mothers, prostitutes, abused children, the handicapped, the elderly and the poor. The volunteer staff ranges from Mother Waddles' own children to a mostly paralyzed woman who makes telephone calls from her own house to locate wheelchairs and arrange transportation for the indigent. Funding, according to a 1990 Mission budget report, accounted total income of $114,500 and expenses and contributions of $112,500. In addition to overseeing the Mission, Mother Waddles' gave speeches and sermons a mix of what she called "downtrodden tales", optimism and humor. Ms. Charleszetta Campbell Waddles died in 2001. Reference: Black Women in America An Historical Encyclopedia Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Darlene Clark Hine Copyright 1993, Carlson Publishing Inc., Brooklyn, New York ISBN 0-926019-61-9
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