02-08-2016 00:11 via chron.com

For Joanne King Herring, the ideas keep coming

A few days before her 87th birthday, Joanne King Herring describes her latest big idea - a Houston-based film company that will offer quality, family-centric entertainment.Among the people she wants to help: victims of floods and human trafficking, single mothers, veterans and villagers in Afghanistan.Here in her hometown, she's a fundraiser, a businesswoman, a person who can be so charming that many people do what she wants at that first, softly accented "darlin'."The saga that unfolded became
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