Posts in category Obituaries

JAMES C BOYD FUNERAL HOME Lena King, 102, domestic engineer, died January 20. Service will be held 11am Friday, January 29, at James C. Boyd …

Atlanta (AP) – His name is all over the baseball record book and, indeed, Hank Aaron could do it all. Sure, he’s remembered mostly for …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Mozelle B. Brown, 98, died December 16. Service will be held 10am Saturday, January 9, at Mizell & Kurtz …

Los Angeles (AP) – MF Doom, a masked rapper who awed hip-hop fans and fellow musicians with intricate wordplay, has died. He was 49. The …

Floyd Little, the versatile running back who starred at Syracuse and for the Denver Broncos, has died after a long bout with cancer. He was …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Clarence Smith, 88, died December 20. Service will be held 10am Wednesday, December 30, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship …

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. …

ROY MIZELL & KURTZ FUNERAL HOME  Richard Sampson, 20, died December 14. Service will be held 10am Wednesday, December 23, at Mizell & Kurtz Worship …

Lynchburg, Va. (AP) – Alfred Thomas Farrar, a former Tuskegee Airman, died on Thursday in Virginia only days before a ceremony planned to honor his …

East St. Louis, Ill. (AP) – Eddie Lee Jackson Sr., a former state legislator, educator and city council member from East St. Louis, has died …