Posts in category Obituaries

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Gwen Swaby-Smith, 63, died March 27. Service 10am Saturday, April 6, at New Mount Olive Baptist Church. Sarah L. …

New York (AP) – Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and …

LOUIS GOSSETT JR.: After repeatedly coming face-to-face with racism, he founded the Eracism Foundation to help create a world where racism doesn’t exist. PHOTO COURTESY …

RANGE FUNERAL HOME  Hazel Washington, 75, laborer, died March 22 at Unity Rehabilitation Center. Service 11am Monday, April 1 in the Chapel. Francena King, 60, …

DAVID HARRIS: "Reaching back and helping others to succeed – that’s what I’d like for my legacy to be," he said. PHOTO COURTESY OF NATIONAL …

Indianapolis (AP) – Longtime Democratic state Sen. Jean Breaux has died from an unspecified health issue. Senate Democratic Leader Greg Taylor said in a statement …

DORIE ANN LADNER: "She dropped out of college three times to work full time” with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, reportedly saying, “I can’t study …

RANGE FUNERAL HOME  Abraham Turner, Jr., 91, retired, died March 13 at Broward Health Hospital. Service 10am Friday in the Chapel. Mary Louise Stewart Jones, …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in …

SACRED HERITAGE: More groups having major roles in bringing awareness to the threats to cemetery preservation, such as vandalism, abandonment, ownership disputes and development. PHOTO …