Echols: Older people, please come to church
Candace Echols sits with her great-grandmother, Mattie Hanley Williams of Millington. (Courtesy Candace Echols)
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“Young people need people who have a different perspective not only in race or gender or socioeconomic status, but in age.”
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