ST. JOSEPH — The 71-year-old son of a sharecropper, Alferd Williams is now a third-grader and has his own reasons for working hard in school.
Missouri third-grader, age 71, honored with namesake literacy award
Friday, March 20, 2009 | 6:11 p.m. CDT
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