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Barbara Jean Hammonds was born July 26, 1945 in the small town of Gilmore Arkansas. She was the fourth of ten children and the second of seven girls born to her parents J.D. and Mamie Hammonds. She grew up working on the farm with her family until they moved to Saint Louis in 1962. There Barbara was able to graduate from Webster Groves Senior High School c/o 1966. Shortly thereafter she formed a singing group with two of her sisters called The Brownells. She was a gifted self-taught, lead...