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Her first husband Clem Geddes was in the funeral business. The couple partnered with Arnold Moss to form a company that sold insurance as well as owning a funeral home. [4] After Clem Geddes died in 1913, she married William A. Willis. In 1940, she renamed the business the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home and Life Insurance Company. [4]
Lou Stovall married artist Di Stovall in 1971. They had one son Will Stovall who is a painter. [8] Stovall also had a daughter, Calea, from an earlier marriage to Elizabeth Wilson, which ended in divorce. Lou Stovall died from heart failure at his home in Washington D.C., on March 3, 2023, at the age of 86. [12]
Queena Stovall (December 20, 1887 – June 27, 1980) was an American folk artist. Sometimes called "The Grandma Moses of Virginia", she is famous for depicting everyday events in the lives of both white and black families in rural settings.
Born in Kentucky and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Stovall Sisters, now known as Nettie Stovall, Lillian Jackson, and Rejoyce Moss, were three of the family of 22 children of James and Della Stovall, and grew up touring with the family gospel group in the Midwest and the South. Their mother, Della Stovall, started each child singing ...
William Howard Stovall was born on his family's cotton plantation in Stovall, Mississippi [1] on 18 February 1895. [2] He was the son of Civil War Confederate colonel William Howard Stovall. [1] He graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1913, then attended Yale and graduated in 1916. [3] He reported to the 13th Aero Squadron in July 1918.
Stovall House, historic home in Tampa, Florida; Stovall's Inn, a Best Western hotel across the street from Disneyland in Anaheim, California; Stovall Middle School, middle school in Houston, Texas; Stovall Mill Covered Bridge, smallest covered bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia; The Stovall, a high rise in Tampa, Florida; 24010 Stovall, an ...
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
However, Moss' desire to perform never went away, and in 2003 he and Allen began writing songs for what would ultimately become The J. Moss Project, released in September 2005 on GospoCentric Records. Though PAJAM's work has been seen as a revolutionary blend of gospel and hip-hop style, The J. Moss Project is a surprisingly traditional affair.