All Entries Tagged With: "obituary"
Obituary: Oklahoma University resident director Ennis Koonce remembered for kindness, life lessons
Source Ennis Koonce never left a day of work without stopping by each coworker’s desk to say goodbye. Those same coworkers now walk past the same neatly kept, now-vacant desk as a reminder of his untimely passing April 5. Koonce had a multi-faceted career at OU. He served as an Adams Center resident director, higher [...]
Obituary: AKA Soror Brenda Marie Young Ellison
Source Mrs. Brenda Marie Young Ellison, of 184 Stribling Circle, entered into eternal rest Monday April 16, 2012 at the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Ellison was the wife of Mr. George Ellison. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Odell W. Young and Mrs. Lillie M. Neuble Young. A graduate of Carver High [...]
Body of missing Alabama student, Kappa Frater Charles Jones III found in river
Source Authorities found the body of missing Alabama student Charles Edward Jones III around 1:55 p.m. Friday, April 6. Jones disappeared Thursday night during a cruise on the Black Warrior River. Jones was a 20-year-old sophomore from Demopolis and a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at UA. Tuscaloosa police confirm that Jones was [...]
Obituary: Kappa Frater William Jefferson Sr, 75
Source William Jefferson Sr., age 75, of Liberty, died Tuesday, February 14, 2012, at Reid Hospital. Born June 21, 1936, in Trenton, Ky., to Malcolm and Rosa Martin Jefferson, he moved to this area in 1974. Bill graduated from high school in 1954 and was an alumnus of Kentucky State University. He served in the [...]
Obituary: AKA Soror Janifer Lynn Lighten, 50
Source The Lighten Family sadly lost their matriarch,Janifer Lynn Lighten, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Mrs. Lighten, who was 50 years old, succumbed to cancer. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family and friends in her New Rochelle home. Mrs. Lighten, was a former Wall Street banker, who turned full-time wife to her husband William [...]
Obituary: Sigma Frater Samuel A. Bradley
Source Wake services will be held at 6 p.m. Friday and funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at St. John AME Church in Marion. Samuel was born on June 2, 1921, in Bishopville, a son and one of nine children of Robert Sr. and Mary Margaret Samuel Bradley. The Bradley home, in the [...]
Obituary: Delta Soror Otis Ruffin Colwell-Douglas, 85
Source Mrs. Otis Ruffin Colwell Douglas, 85, passed away Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Charlottesville, where she had been living with her daughter, Beverly “BeBe” Colwell Adams since 2008. Otis was born Nov. 5, 1926, in Youngstown, a daughter of Mr. Clarence and Mrs. Ida (Campbell) Ruffin. She graduated from The Rayen School, The Ohio [...]
Police Investigate Death of Alpha Frater Dwyone Joiner
Source Family, friends and the Cody High School community are mourning the loss of a long-time teacher. The body of 33-year-old Dwyone Joiner was found in his Sussex Street home in Detroit Wednesday. Detroit Police say he was killed from a gun shot wound, but investigators are not releasing any other details into the death. [...]
Obituary: Sigma Frater Johnny Gorman, 77
Source Johnny Gorman, 77, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at his home surrounded by his loving family. A home-going celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Niles. The visitation will begin at 10 a.m. and run until the time [...]
Obituary: Kappa Frater Ken Ward, WSOC-TV Reporter, Dies Days Before New Job
Source Ken Ward, TV reporter, was set to drive Wednesday from Charlotte, N. C. to Tampa Bay, Fla. to start his new job at an ABC affiliate. Instead, the 44-year-old was found dead early Wednesday morning at his home before the journey even started, leaving colleagues and viewers wondering what happened to the promising reporter. [...]
