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    Rev. Sterling Jenkins, III, 60

    by  • June 14, 2013 • Obituary • 0 Comments

    Rev. Sterling Jenkins, III

    Rev. Sterling Jenkins, III, 60, passed away on June 6 in Oakland. He was born in New Orleans, LA to Sterling Jenkins, Jr. and Helen M. Hopkins. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and served with honor in the U.S. Army. As a minister at Grace Baptist Church in Oakland, Jenkins...

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    Ora “Carol” McClendon, 90

    by  • May 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles • 0 Comments

    Ora McClendon

    Ora McClendon, affectionately known as “Carol” to family and friends, passed away on April 14 at the age of 90. She was born Ora Hopkins on Dec. 15, 1922 in the Jackson Parish of Quitman, Louisiana to Green and Rose Hopkins. She graduated from Chatum High School in Quitman and was a faithful member...

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    Sharron Faye Jacobs, 63

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Obituaries, Obituary, San Francisco

    Sharron Faye Jacobs

    Sharron Faye Jacobs, an active member of Bethel AME Church in San Francisco since 1975, passed away on March 26 at the age of 63. She was born to Tommy and Clytie Mae Walsh Jacobs in Fordyce, Arkansas in 1950. A member of Bethel AME, she served as secretary and administrative assistant for over...

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    Former Four Seasons Arts Administrator Charles L. Burns Jr., 76

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Charles L. Burns Jr.

    By Barbara Bauer Charles L. Burns Jr., who worked as an administrator for Four Seasons Arts and other symphonies, died Feb. 24 in San Francisco. He was 76. Burns was born on Aug. 8 1936 to Beamen White Burns and Charles L. Burns, Sr. in Grand Ridge, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts...

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    Joel Overall, 64, Painted the Globe with Jesus’ Brush

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary

    Joel Overall

    The life of Joel Overall, whodied last week at 64, was celebrated by more than 1,000 in arousing “home-going” funeral service at Shiloh Christian Fellowship. Affectionately known as the “Ministering Painter,” he was remembered by Pastor David Kiteley: “Joel always found time to preach the gospel of the scriptures to his clients, sometimes while...

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    14-Year-Old Girl Takes on HIV/AIDS Fight in Uganda

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Church Events, HIV, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Obituary

    Moro talking to her peers about behaviour change.

      Moro, a 14-year-old girl in Uganda, has managed to set up a HIV/AIDS education project, Advice for Change, mainly targeting youth living in the slums. Moro,is a student at Kairos High School in Bukasa, lives in Acholi Quarters, near Kampala, Uganda. “I set up this project, mainly to create awareness about HIV/AIDS, such...

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    Blues Great Jimmy McCracklin, 91

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Jimmy McCracklin

    By Lee Hildebrand The blues community is mourning the passing of bluesman Jimmy McCracklin, who diedThursday, Dec. 20, at Creekside Health Center in San Pablo. The prolific singer, pianist and songwriter, a longtime Richmond resident, was 91. “He had a style that was completely his own,” singer-guitarist Sonny Rhodes said of his late friend. ...

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    Opera Singer Gloria Davy, 81

    by  • December 14, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Gloria Davy, a Brooklyn-born soprano who was the first African-American to sing Aida with the Metropolitan Opera, died on Nov. 28 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was 81.

    Gloria Davy, a Brooklyn-born soprano who was the first African-American to sing Aida with the Metropolitan Opera, died on Nov. 28 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was 81. Before Davy was cast in the role, Aida, an Ethiopian princess, was perennially sung by white singers in dark makeup. A lirico-spinto (which denotes a high voice...

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    Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck, 91

    by  • December 14, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer.

    Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and 1960s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, died Dec. 5 in Norwalk, Conn. He was 91. Born in Concord, Contra Costa County, he grew up in farm country. His father,...

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    Diana Fay Franklin-Adams, 64

    by  • December 14, 2012 • Bay Area, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    Diana Fay Franklin-Adams

    Born and raised in San Francisco, Mrs. Diana Fay Franklin-Adams died after an illness on Friday, Dec. 7. She was 64. Adams dedicated her life to education.  Her passion was educating and nurturing young people, inspiring them to achieve their dreams and realize their potential. She began her career as a teacher in the...

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    Lillie Lee Mosely, 102

    by  • December 6, 2012 • Bay Area, Oakland News Articles, Obituary

    Lillie Lee Mosely

    Lillie Lee Mosely, an educator, long time resident of Oakland and member of St. Benedict’s Parish, died on Nov. 27. She was 102. After retiring, Mosely moved to Hawaii to live with her sister Addie Lee Jackson. The two eventually returned to Oakland where they lived for over a decade at Lake Park Retirement...

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    Otho James Green, 77

    by  • November 23, 2012 • Bay Area, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary

    Otho Green (right) and Bobby Seale ran for Mayor in 1973.

    Otho James Green, 77, a management consultant in the Bay Area and Washington, D.C., died Nov. 9 at Heartland Hospice in Chevy Chase, Maryland. After graduating from Hayward State College and completing a fellowship at the Coro Foundation in San Francisco, Green became a consultant in Industrial Relations for the California State Assembly. As...

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    Allen Lee Weathersby, Jr., 64

    by  • November 16, 2012 • Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, SECTIONS, Special Interests Articles

    Allen Lee Weathersby, Jr.

    Allen Lee Weathersby, Jr., born May 16, 1948, passed away on Oct. 31. He was a military veteran who retired from Todd Shipyard. He will be missed by his daughter Ayanna Weathersby, family and friends. Funeral services were held at Evangelistic Outreach Center, 1743 Foothill Blvd. in Oakland on Wednesday, Nov. 14.

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    Warren Barrios Wilson, 91

    by  • November 3, 2012 • Bay Area, Obituary

    Warren Barrios Wilson, Oakland attorney and long time executive of Thomas Brothers Maps, died at home on Oct. 26. During his 50 years as a practicing attorney and member of the California State Bar, he was driven by a strong sense of social justice and a desire to give voice to those who were...

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    OCO, Clergy Met With Police Chief, Seek to Provide Jobs for Youth

    by  • November 3, 2012 • Bay Area, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Obituary, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Front row, left to right: Ada Chan, Father Jesus Nieto-Ruiz, OCO co-chair, Rev. Sandhya Jha, Rev. Allen Langston, Rev. Kevin Ary, Rev. Clyde Ran, Lynette McElhaney, John McConn, Denise Gums; Second row, left to right: OCO organizer Rev. Ken Chambers, Sr., Dr. Ida Oberman, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, Rev. Mary Gilmore, Rev. Sylvester Rutledge; Back row, left to right: Rev. Darlene Chambers, Police Lieutenant LeRonne Armstrong, Rev. Samuel Bobo, Dr. Phillip Lewis, Elder Bill Dixon, Rev. Gary Golden, and Father George Quickley. Photo by Ashley Chambers.

    By Ashley Chambers A San Antonio action meeting led by organizer Rev. Ken Chambers, Sr. of Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) sought to unite churches, city officials, and community members together for the cause of providing solutions for the city’s youth on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at Foothill Baptist Church, and hosted by Rev. Gary Golden....

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    Russell Means, 72, Indian Movement Activist

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Obituary

    Russell Means

    Russell Means, the Oglala Sioux activist who revived indigenous pride as a leader of the American Indian Movement and appeared in Hollywood movies later in life, has died. He was 72. Means died early Monday at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The cause of death was esophageal cancer....

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    George McGovern, 90, Ran for President in 1972

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Bay Area, Obituary

    George McGovern

    By David Browne, Rolling Stone George McGovern, longtime anti-war congressman from South Dakota who notoriously suffered a devastating loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential campaign, died at the age of 90. With his focus on peace and world hunger, McGovern was one of the leading liberal voices of his era – and...

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    Campaign Against Death Penalty Steps Up Advertising

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Article Archives, Bay Area, Obituary, Politics and Government

    By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times The campaign to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole has launched radio and television advertisements, depicting capital punishment as a futile exercise that costs taxpayers and coddles criminals. With only days left before the election, the Proposition 34 campaign is spending more than...

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    Mervyn Dymally, 86, Calif.’s Only Black Lt. Governor

    by  • October 12, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Obituary

    Mervyn M. Dymally

    Mervyn Dymally, the history-making California assemblyman, senator and lieutenant governor who also served in Congress for more than a decade, has died at age 86. Representing Compton, Dymally was the state’s first foreign-born Black assemblyman in 1962, its first black state senator in 1966 and the first and only black lieutenant governor in 1974....

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    Lela Davis Herbert, 86

    by  • October 11, 2012 • Obituary, Richmond News

    Lela Davis Herbert, a successful owner of an East Bay drapery business and active civic leader, died on Sept. 24. She was 86. Born May 5, 1926 to Bishop Canary Davis and Cora Burkley Lamb in Cherokee County, Rusk, Texas, she accepted the Lord at a young age and was baptized in the Church...

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    Singer Lorice Stevens-French, 76

    by  • June 2, 2012 • Obituary

    A well-known singer, school counselor and entrepreneur, former East Bay resident Lorice Stevens-French died May 21 in Arizona. She was 76. She gained a reputation and a following for her performances in concert halls and on television and radio, appearing in “Best of Broadway,” New York Central Park’s “Porgy and Bess” and as a...

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    EJS Mourns the Loss of John Payton

    by  • March 26, 2012 • Obituaries, Obituary, Uncategorized

    Photo via BET

    The Equal Justice Society mourns the loss of John Payton, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., who died late Thursday after a brief illness. He was 65. EJS expresses our deep condolences to his wife, Gay, and to the LDF family on this tragic loss. “John Payton...

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    LaJuana Lupe Bobino, 47

    by  • February 8, 2012 • Obituary

    LaJuana Lupe “Tweety” Bobino, a dedicated member of the Oakland Dynamite’s youth football and cheerleading organization, died Jan. 15.  She was 47.Bobino started with the Dynamites as a cheerleader. She went on to serve as a board member, team mom and coach, leading her squads to win many championships.Born on June 2, 1964, to...

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    Pearl Scott, Miraculous, Minister and Mother, Moves On

    by  • February 8, 2012 • Featured, Oakland News Articles, Obituary

    Pastor Pearl Scott, national and international evangelist, healer and founder of Oakland’s Miraculous Foundation Christian Center Church, passed away January 20.With her two loving daughters Dr. Patricia Scott-Brooks and Dr. E. Jenee Scott and granddaughters Emperess Hall and Majesty Scott at her bedside, she peacefully transitioned to be with her Lord.Mother Scott, as thousands...

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    Johnny Otis, 90

    by  • February 8, 2012 • Obituary

    “The Godfather of Rhythm and Blues” Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout who was often called “the godfather of rhythm and blues,” died last week at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 90. Leading a band in the late 1940s that combined big band jazz with the...

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    Mary “Weezie” Holden, 69

    by  • February 8, 2012 • Obituary

    Mary Louise “Weezie” Holden, an employee of the Oakland Unified School District and a surrogate mother to all who entered her home , died on Jan. 4. She was 69.Born in Shreveport, LA, she attended school and married her friend Bobby Lynn Holden. The couple eventually moved to the Bay Area.Starting in 1975, she...

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    Rev. Joseph Lee Johnson, 93

    by  • January 20, 2012 • Obituary

    Rev. Joseph Lee Johnson, a pioneer in the Bay Area religious community for over  65 years, died Jan. 9 at the age of 93. He served for over 41 years as pastor of Elisabeth Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond.Born Sept. 3, 1918, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Rev. Johnson was well known as someone who affected...

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    Kaiser May Face Nurses Union Sympathy Strike

    by  • January 20, 2012 • Obituary

    The union representing Kaiser Permanente’s nurses says thousands of its caregivers may walk off the job Jan. 31 in an echo of mass demonstrations at hospitals in September if labor talks between Kaiser and a sister union stall.Kaiser and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), which represents mental health professionals, therapists and optical...

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    Virginia Craft Rose, 98

    by  • January 9, 2012 • Oakland News Articles, Obituary

    Wife of Oakland’s First African American City Councilman Virginia Craft Rose, 98, a long-time civic, cultural and educational leader, passed away in Oakland on Dec. 26.Rose taught in the Children’s Centers of the Oakland Unified School District for 30 years before retiring in 1974. She was active with the NAACP, the YWCA, Alpha Kappa...

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    Abbe Foster, 86

    by  • January 9, 2012 • Obituary

    Widow of Dr. Marcus A Foster and former Oakland resident Albertine “Abbe” Ramseur Foster, 86, died Dec. 27 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Detroit, MI. Her husband was a nationally prominent  educator and Oakland’s first African American superintendent of schools, who was assassinated in 1973 by the Symbionese Liberation ArmyAbbe...

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