Sylvia Higginbotham

Background

Sylvia Higginbotham was born November 2, 1945, in Laurel, Mississippi, United States; the daughter of Frank A. Robbins, a teacher, and Floye T. Robbins, a homemaker.

Education

Sylvia Higginbotham attended Jones County Junior College, Louisiana State University—Shreveport, and Mississippi University for Women.

Career

Sylvia Higginbotham began to work as an account executive for a newspaper production company in Shreveport in 1973. In 1977 she began working in the sales and creative department at KATC-TV 3, and in 1980 Sylvia worked in client development at KSLA-TV 12.

Higginbotham also worked as an account executive for advertising agencies, and as a member of the board of directors and executive director at Columbus Arts Council and executive director at Columbus Historic Foundation.

Sylvia was also the author of about a dozen Fodors Guide Books and author and producer of a play, Mississippi Music and Memories.

Achievements

• Sylvia Higginbotham received several awards from a local advertising federation, between 1982 and 2001. She received the Mississippi Travel Media Award for Tourism in 1994.

Works

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• book

  • Grits 'N Greens and Mississippi Things People and Places and Fabulous Foods

    (Grits 'n Greens is Higginbotham's third book written excl...)

    2002
  • Marvelous Old Mansions: And Other Southern Treasures 2000
  • The Insiders' Guide to Mississippi 1994
  • Tennessee Trails and Treasures: Mountains, Music, Mansions and More 2006
  • Where Flowers Healed a Nation 1996
  • Reflections: Homes and history of Columbus, Mississippi 2001
  • Southern Women: Their Wisdom, Wit And Wickedness 2004
  • Time Passages: Looking Back at the Life and Times of Birney Imes, Jr. 2003

Membership

Sylvia Higginbotham was a member of Belle Fleur Garden Club, Arts Guild and Republican Women.

Interests

• theater, photography

Connections

Sylvia Higginbotham married Weldon F. Higginbotham on February 8, 1965. They had two children - Saxonie Higginbotham Eicholtz and Shaye Higginbotham Erazo.

Father:

Frank A. Robbins

Mother:

Floye T. Robbins

Spouse:

Weldon F. Higginbotham

child:

Saxonie Higginbotham Eicholtz

child:

Shaye Higginbotham Erazo