The Union Missionary Baptist Church was housed in the old barracks in the 1950s but a March 16, 1953 fire destroyed a couple of those buildings – including the one that housed the church.

LANSING — Florence Latham arrived in Lansing in the final months of World War II, as a 27-year-old Texas native who found work as a housekeeper at the Hotel Olds in downtown Lansing, now the ...