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Clifford Evans DeBaptiste (born May 19, 1924) is an American politician and funeral director who served as mayor of West Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1994 to 2002.A Republican at the time, he was the borough's first black mayor. [4]
DeBaptiste has been a funeral director at her family's funeral home, DeBaptiste Funeral Homes, since 1973. The business has a location in West Chester and another in Bryn Mawr. [3] [4] She runs a banquet hall as well. Called Milestone Events, it is located next door to their West Chester funeral home. [2] [5] [6]
Leake moved to Chester in 1951 and began working for the Lewis M. Hunt Funeral Home. In 1959, she opened her own business, the W.M. Leake Funeral Home, at Third and Broomall Streets in Chester. In May 1972, she moved the business to 10th and Pusey Street in Chester. [2] The funeral home was purchased by the Hunt Irving Funeral Home in 2007.
Magister was best known for Crazy Water, a contemporary American restaurant in Walker's Point that was open from 2002 to 2020. Milwaukee restaurateur Peggy Magister, James Beard semifinalist, dies ...
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Historically, West Chester Township has leaned toward the Republican Party but in recent years that advantage has narrowed. Barack Obama only won 35.2% of the vote against John McCain's 63.5% in 2008, but in 2020 Joe Biden claimed 44% against Donald Trump's 54.5%. [9] West Chester Township is entirely in Ohio's 8th congressional district. [10]
Richard DeBaptiste (November 11, 1831 – April 21, 1901) was a Baptist minister in Chicago, Illinois. Before the abolition of slavery , he was an abolitionist and worked with his close relative, George DeBaptiste in the Underground Railroad , mainly in Detroit, Michigan .