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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 ...
Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. [3] [4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman.
Rulon Timpson Jeffs (December 6, 1909 – September 8, 2002), known to followers as Uncle Rulon, was an American polygamist and religious leader who founded and was recognized as the 5th president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), a Mormon fundamentalist organization based in Colorado City, Arizona, United States, from 1986 until his death in 2002 ...
Melanie Wade Goodwin was born to Albert and Nancy Wade on July 22, 1970, in Richmond, Virginia. in 1988, she graduated from Jesse O. Sanderson High School.In 1992, Goodwin graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, [2] in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle.
In July 1956, Jeffreys' mother, Kate Jeffreys Carmichael, 67, was run down and killed by her own automobile in the driveway of her daughter's home. Police said Carmichael was taking books from the car's trunk when the emergency brake apparently slipped. The car rolled down the sloping driveway, dragging the actress's mother 26 feet (8 m). [14]
Leroy "Roy" Barlow Jeffs (June 5, 1992 – May 29, 2019) was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church). He was one of Warren Jeffs' fifty four children.
Winzola Poole McLendon (December 6, 1910 – March 1, 2012), also known as "Winnie McLendon" or "Winnie P. McLendon," was an American journalist, author's agent and bestselling author who was known for her news coverage of the Nixon White House and the family, friends, political associates, and political opponents of United States President Richard Nixon.