Posts in category 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. …

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 …