Posts in category Obituaries

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Janet Allen, 87, died January 19. Service will be held 11am Thursday, January 27, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Daisy Thomas, 83, died December 28. Service will be held 11am Thursday, January 13, at Calvary Chapel. Wanda Balom …

NEW YORK (AP) – Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and became the first …

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, the third-generation editor and publisher of a historic Black newspaper in North Carolina and a driving force …

Charlie Maxon Odoms, 78, died December 23. Service will be held 12 noon Wednesday, January 5, at New Bethel Primitive Baptist Church. Lynneth Maria Stewart, …

Lula Mae Grisson, 99, retired cook for Burdines Dept. Store, died December 20. Service will be held 10am Saturday in the chapel. Dorothy Louise Howell-McCray, …

BOSTON (AP) – Basketball Hall of Famer Sam Jones, the Boston Celtics’ “Mr. Clutch” whose sharp shooting fueled the league’s longest dynasty and earned him …

Timothy McIntyre, 41, died December 15. Service was held 11am Wednesday, December 29, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center. Laura Mae Ward, 86, died December …

New York (AP) – bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined made her …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Herbert Kelly, Jr., 89, died December 15. Services were held 11am Thursday, December 23, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship …