Posts in category Obituaries

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME cd Betty Strong, 85, died March 15. Service will be held 10am Saturday, March 26, at Mount Hermon A.M.E. …

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – Sierra Jenkins was a young Black journalist working in a rapidly shrinking industry where colleagues often didn’t look like her. But …

The Rev. Emmett C. Burns Jr., a civil rights leader in Maryland who also served in the General Assembly for 20 years, has died at …

Washington (AP) – Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state …

New Orleans (AP) – The New Orleans Police Department’s first Black superintendent has died. Warren Woodfork Sr. died Wednesday, the department said in a tweet. …

Lexington, Ky. (AP) – When Lexington’s Benevolent Society decided to open a cemetery way back in 1869, it was deep in the country outside of …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Gloria Lester Williams, 71, died March 8. Service was held Tuesday, March 15, at New Birth House of Prayer …

NEW YORK (AP) – Singer Traci Braxton, who was featured with her family in the reality television series “Braxton Family Values,” died at age 50 …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Bessie Dollison, 82, died February 28. Service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12, at Mizell & Kurtz …

Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died last Wednesday. She was 92. University officials announced her death …