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Name of Company: BELL’S FLORIST
Name & Title of Entrepreneur: Margaret P. (Jean) Bell/ Owner; Operator
1. Tell us a little about yourself:
I am 70 years old and celebrated my 50th wedding anniversary on November 4th, 2011. I had three children. One took her life. I used to be very shy in school but now I am the opposite and make up for lost time. (Laughing); I seem to be a very outgoing person now. I am an organist at church.

2. What made you want to open this business?
My husband was diagnosed with cancer. He wanted me to be self-supporting if something happened to him. (Business operated for 12 years and her husband is much alive today.)

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Tyrone is a very successful Engineer, Pastor; he is also a parent, a husband, and a very successful entrepreneur owner of Floyds restaurant III in Charlotte, NC.
Last week we had a very informal interview about his business and his life in general and here are some of the answers he gave me.

Tyrone how you started your company?
Tyrone explained to me about his family business, his father started Floyds I and II, everything started as a sandwich shop and grew from there, after college his dad wanted to help him out with his own restaurant that was when Floyds III started.

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