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Marva Louis Spaulding, 85, the one-time stenographer and big band singer who was twice married to boxer Joe Louis and later raised funds for the United Negro College Fund and other causes, died Tuesday, Nov.
28, in her Bronzeville home, of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.
“She was very personable, very glamorous, very civic-minded and out to help,” said Cannie Middleton, a niece.
The former Marva Trotter was born in Boley, Okla., grew up in Chicago and graduated from Englewood High School in 1933.
She then studied stenography in one of the few schools that would accept African-American students at the time.
But while working as a stenographer, she met and married Joe Louis in 1934.
A stylish woman throughout her life, Mrs.
Spaulding soon became almost as recognizable as her famous husband. As a singer, she performed around the country, including appearances with top bandleaders such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Kay Kyster in the early and mi