Posts in category Obituaries

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Annie Glover, 91, died February 4. Service 11am Thursday, February 15, at New Mount Olive Baptist Church. Johnney Jones, …

MARLENA SHAW: The 5th Dimension and Marvin Gaye also recorded it. Shaw’s version became the standard. PHOTO COURTESY OF FRESHERSLIVE Marlena Shaw, the jazz and …

PHOTO COURTESY OF NETNOTICIAS.MX Lexington, Ky. (AP) – Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith, a renowned soprano known for her performance in the 1981 French cult-classic film …

NANCY ANCRUM: Strong community voice “was such a spectacular, principled person.” PHOTO COURTESY OF FIU.EDU Miami, Fla. – Retired Miami Herald Editorial Page Editor Nancy …

NEW YORK (AP) – Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the …

FROM GEORGIA: The U.S. Defense Department said the Army Reserve soldiers killed in a weekend drone strike in Jordan were, from left, Spc. Kennedy Sanders …

CHARLES AUSTIN JR.: “Music has been my life,” he said. “When I found out I could do it and do it well, I worked at …

DEXTER KING: Just 7 years old when his father was assassinated, “He turned that pain into activism, however, and dedicated his life to advancing the …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Elmore Nickleberry, a longtime Memphis sanitation worker who participated in the pivotal 1968 strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King …

REGGIE WELLS: He “was an artist who used his palette of talent to create beauty no matter the canvas,” Winfrey said. PHOTO COURTESY OF LEGACY.COM …