Lovie Louise Yancey (1912 - 2008)

Born 3 Jan 1912 in Bastrop, Texas, United States

Biography

Lovie Yancey is Notable.

Founder and owner of Fatburger. Lovie opened a small hamburger stand in 1947, it was called Mr. Fatburger. "The name of the store was my idea. I wanted to get across the idea of a big burger with everything on it ... a meal in itself." In 1952, she dropped the "Mr" from the name along with her business partner.

The original location was a fixture of the area, with celebrities such as Redd Foxx and Ray Charles custom ordering their burgers. Her daughter Gwen said "Oh man! I personally made burgers for Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, like Tyson, Don King, Elizabeth Taylor, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall. Oh, I can’t remember them all. They all came."

Daughter of Clayborn & Minnie Yancey. She married Rawlins Colquitt Greene in 1930. They had a daughter, Gwendolyn.

Sources

• 1920 US census

• Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015

• U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovie_Yancey

• https://slausongirl.com/remembering-lovie-yancey-the-black-woman-who-founded-fatburger/

• https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/lovie-yancey-1912-2008/

• https://www.facebook.com/BrownGirlCollective/posts/herstory-matters-lovie-yancey-founder-of-the-fatburger-chain-of-restaurants-was-/10154821783329593/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatburger

• http://militantangeleno.blogspot.com/2008/01/first-last-great-hamburger-stand.html

• http://liteitupboxing.com/interview-gwen-adair/

• http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/lovieyancey.htm