Posts in category Obituaries

MEL SHOWERS: Passes at 78, after Deep South career as beloved and trusted broadcast newsman along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, the epitome of "hard work, due …

HAMA AMADOU: Emblematic public official repeatedly was imprisoned. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA Niamey, Niger (AP) – Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou died in a …

RANGE FUNERAL HOME  Elouise Lenora Wright-Jackson, 82, retired registered nurse for Mt. Sinai Hospital, died October 21 at Memorial West Hospital. Service 11am Saturday at …

THELMA MOTHERSHED WAIR: “She was always a fighter,” said her sister, Grace Davis. Born with a congenital heart defect, told that she would not live …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Gracie Beard Davis, 84, died October 17. Service 11am Saturday, November 2, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center. Catherine …

Abdul Salaam, a member of the Jets’ famed "New York Sack Exchange" in the 1980s, has died. He was 71. The team announced Salaam’s death …

CISSY HOUSTON: Born Emily Drinkard in Newark, NJ, the Grammy-winner recorded more than 600 songs in multiple genres with myriad other famed artists through her …

Boston (AP) – Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a …

RANGE FUNERAL HOME  Joyce Lynne Ferguson, 62, administrative secretary 1, Department of Children and Family Services, died October 1. Viewing Friday 6pm-7:30pm at Grace United …

JAY FUNERAL HOME Dorothy Georgette Sumpter, 30, died October 3. Public viewing Friday, October 11. Revoyager Brown, 74, truck driver, died September 21. Service 11am …