Category: Obituaries – Washington D.C.

Jesse Hill Jr., an insurance executive and Black newspaper publisher who was a backstage colossus in business, politics and the civil rights movement in Atlanta died Dec. 17 of an undisclosed illness. He was 86. Hill was a former chief executive of Atlanta Life Insurance Co. and founder of the Atlanta Inquirer. He hailed from […]

Robert Merritt Jr. (Bob) was born on Oct. 11, 1926, in Henderson, Ky. He was the son of the late Allena Grizzard. He had one sister who he looked up to and adored, the late Jessye Reese. At an early age, he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. He graduated from Lincoln High School in […]

Joyce Ellen Gainey was born on August 22, 1966 at Freeman’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Joyce was the youngest child born to Jerome and Catherine Gainey. Joyce attended Smother’s Elementary, Kelly Miller Junior High and Joel E. Spingarn (1984) Senior High School. At age 16, Joyce began working her first job with the D.C. Summer […]

Jeanne Yvonne Pinkett Brown was born on March 19, 1935 in Washington, D.C. to the late Alfred and Leland Pinkett. She was the youngest child of a devoted and loving family of seven girls and one boy. With six older sisters, Alfrieda, Irma, Juanita, Mildred, Gloria, Leland and one brother, Alfred Jr., Jeanne was that […]

Bishop Imagene Bingham Stewart, a revered D.C. social advocate and founder of the House of Imagene Shelter and Women’s Center, died on May 30 after a lengthy illness. She was 69. According to WUSA-TV, Stewart’s death came after the D.C. resident had battled breast cancer for two years. Born in Dublin, Ga., in 1942, she […]

Thelma Lucille Jarmon Vass Groomes was born Jan. 3, 1911, in Kinston, N.C. An only child, she was born to Ozias “Rev. Otis” Jarmon and Cora Becton Jarmon. She grew up in Washington, D.C. As a young girl, she attended and graduated from Wilson Elementary School in Washington in 1925. She attended and graduated from […]

Robert Melvin Mills (Bobby), son of the late William Francis Mills Sr., and Emma Hall Mills, was born on August 16, 1931, in Washington, D.C. He departed this life on Sept. 29. Bobby grew up and received his formative education in the public schools of Washington, D.C. He joined the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church on […]

Donald Edward Mills, son of the late William Francis Mills Sr., and Emma Hall Mills was born on June 23, 1936 in Washington D.C. He departed this life on Aug. 26 at the Washington Hospital Center. Donald was baptized at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church by the Rev. Jerry A. Moore Jr., on April 6, […]

Hessie Hightower lived in great anticipation of the day she would go home to be with the Lord and she passed peacefully into his house on Monday October 17, 2011. Hessie was the beloved daughter of the late Lynn and Bertha Scales Penn. Her sunrise was Monday November 2, 1925. She was truly a miracle […]

Professor of Physics at Morgan State University for 37 years, Avid Golfer for life. _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Julius Henry Taylor, affectionately called “Jute”, a long-time resident of Baltimore, Maryland, died peacefully in his sleep on August 27 of natural causes. The Windsor Hills resident was 97. Dr. Taylor was respected by the hundreds of physics students […]

Mildred Hayes Blackwell was born to the late Annie Hayes Dade and James Dade on June 26, 1919 in Richmond, Va. At age 5, she and her family moved to Baltimore, Md., where Mildred continued her education in the Baltimore schools, graduating from Frederick Douglass High School and continuing her education at Cortez Peters Business […]

Abner “Sam” Sampson Sr. was born Oct. 6, 1932, to the late Clarence and Pearline Faulkner Sampson in Goldsboro, N.C. Sam graduated from Dillard High School in Goldsboro, N.C., where he played football and basketball. In 1951, Sam went to Allen University in Charleston, S.C., on a full football scholarship and played basketball. After Sam […]