Obituaries
JAY FUNERAL HOME Ossie Hollis, 84, educator, died June 18. Service will be held 10am Saturday, June 25, at Second Baptist Church. Bishop Simeon D. …
JAY FUNERAL HOME Ossie Hollis, 84, educator, died June 18. Service will be held 10am Saturday, June 25, at Second Baptist Church. Bishop Simeon D. …
Meridian, Miss. (AP) – A police officer killed on duty in Mississippi earlier this month is being remembered there and in his Alabama hometown as …
New York (AP) – George Lamming, a giant of post-colonial literature whose novels, essays and speeches influenced readers and peers in his native Barbados and …
ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME Isaiah Brinson, Jr., 72, died June 11. Viewing and memorial service will be held 4pm Sunday, June 19, at …
Milwaukee (AP) – George Thompson, who played for Marquette from 1967-69 and remains one of the program’s all-time leading scorers, has died. He was 74. …
St. Albans, W.Va. (AP) – Former NFL player and West Virginia University standout Robert Alexander has died. He was 64. Alexander died June 7 after …
JAY FUNERAL HOME James Henry Pope, 91, businessman, died May 29. Service was held Wednesday at Lee C. Jay Memorial Chapel. Dwayne Mills, 66, died …
Frisco, Texas (AP) – Marion Barber III, the former Dallas Cowboys running back who is fourth in franchise history with 47 rushing touchdowns, has died, …
Greenwood, Miss. (AP) – William “Bud” McGee, a Mississippi civil rights activist who worked to register Black voters in the 1960s, has died. He was …
Riviera Beach, Fla. – DeOntre McCray says his father would draw a large mural on an important building that would be praised far and wide …