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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Boone

TikTok star Shirley Raines, known for bringing meals and respect to people on Skid Row, dies at 58

Obit Shirley Raines - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Shirley Raines, a social media creator and nonprofit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday. She was 58.

Raines was known as “Ms. Shirley,” to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles' Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada.

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