Posts in category Obituaries

JAY FUNERAL HOME  Shirley Anderson, 73, Nurse, died July 28. Service will be held 11am Friday, August 6, at Glendale Missionary Baptist Church. Eddie Dixon, …

Birmingham, Ala. (AP) – A Black Army veteran who helped peacefully desegregate an Alabama city’s library with a sit-in protest in 1963 has died, according …

Los Angeles (AP) – Charles Connor, known for being Little Richard’s drummer who performed with other music greats including James Brown and Sam Cooke, has …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Leon Jackson, 60, died July 19. Service will be held 9am Saturday, July 24, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship …

Los Angeles (AP) – Biz Markie, a hiphop staple known for his beatboxing prowess, turntable mastery and the 1989 classic “Just a Friend,” has died. …

Annapolis, Md. (AP) – Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was …

LAGOS, Nigeria – Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa’s most popular televangelists who was known as T.B. Joshua, has died. He was 57. The Nigerian-born …

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – Merle Smith Jr., the first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy, has died, his family said. He …

RANGE FUNERAL HOME  Catherine C. Sutton, 96, retired teacher, died June 14. Service will be held 11am Saturday at New Birth Baptist Church Cathedral of …

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) – Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across …