Obituaries
RANGE FUNERAL HOME Rusie Kimball, 94, retired clerk for Burdines warehouse, died August 28 at Hialeah Hospital. Service will be held 10am Saturday at Friendship …
RANGE FUNERAL HOME Rusie Kimball, 94, retired clerk for Burdines warehouse, died August 28 at Hialeah Hospital. Service will be held 10am Saturday at Friendship …
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) – Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu – whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political …
Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. …
ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME Hattie Hugley, 93, died August 23. Service will be held 10am Saturday, September 3, at First Baptist Church Piney …
Troy, Ala. (AP) – There’s now a historic marker at the one-story brick house in Alabama where the late civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman …
Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP) – Jason Jenkins, who spent nearly 14 years with the Miami Dolphins and eventually became the team’s senior vice president of …
ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME Joseph Wilson, 69, died August 2. Service will be held 10am Saturday, August 20, at Hallandale Beach Church of …
NEW YORK (AP) – Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated HollandDozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and …
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) – Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & …
Memphis, Tenn. (AP) – Ralph Prater, one of the first Black students to enroll at then-Memphis State University in 1959, has died recently at 81. …