A grand birthday party and homecoming is planned Sunday for a Suffolk woman whose character became one of the area’s most popular urban legends. Known only as the “Purple Lady” for many years, Rachel ...

Chattanooga's Sonia Young - better known as The Purple Lady - has come out on top of a competition to find the South's "Most Curious and Crazy." The competition was sponsored by the BBC and readers ...

What a fun story the Purple Lady has been. The Mayor Holley story, mentioned last week, has been fun, too, but for the wrong reasons. The Purple Lady’s saga is more simple – it’s just people being ...

Known throughout the Chattanooga region, and indeed the globe, as The Purple Lady, Sonia Young's notoriety may seem at first glance due to the trademark hue in which she has wrapped herself and those ...

Debbie J. Cross was passing through downtown Toledo, Ohio, on a Greyhound bus Monday when she caught a glimpse of a familiar sight. She was astonished to see the legendary Purple Lady of Suffolk ...

THE PURPLE Lady lives by the Ten Commandments – plus one that’s distinctly her own. “Thou shalt be joyous no matter what.” Barbara Meislin, known as the Purple Lady, lives atop Tiburon overlooking the ...