Posts in category Obituaries

HADLEY DAVIS FUNERAL HOME  Miami Gardens Harold Alexander Collins, 75, truck driver, died August 4. Service will be held 10am Saturday in Chapel. MANKER FUNERAL …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur, who served for a record 14 years and was considered a champion of …

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Family and friends of Black 18-year-old Michael Brown said his death after being shot by a white police officer in Ferguson …

James Harris, a Mississippi-born sharecropper who gained international fame as “Kamala the Ugandan Giant,” a massive professional wrestler who buried opponents with his trademark “splash,” …

JAY FUNERAL HOME  Christopher Shaw, 48, died June 25. Service will be held 11am Friday, July 24, at Jay Funeral Home Chapel. Ronnie Williams Sr., …

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Two days after the passing of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, and one day after the birthdate of the late …

JAY FUNERAL HOME  Nathan Sumpter, 81, laborer, died July 1. Service will be held 11am Friday, July 10 at Jay Funeral Home Chapel. Van Thomas, …

New Orleans (AP) – The first Black woman to serve as an officer in the New Orleans Police Department has died. The department announced Yvonne …

Atlanta (AP) – An 8-year-old girl was shot and killed on the Fourth of July after at least two people in a crowd of armed …

ROY MIZEL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME Betty Jean Hankerson, 84, died June 11. Service will be held 10am Thursday, June 18 at Roy Mizell & …