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Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Notable interments include: John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman [1] Bibb Graves, 38th Governor of Alabama [2] Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama [3] J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator [4] Reuben Kolb, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture [5]
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2025.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/ m ə n t ˈ ɡ ʌ m ər i ... ˈ æ l ə m eɪ n / ; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed " Monty ", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War , the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War .
Davis was born on October 29, 1919, and grew up in Virginia with her five brothers. [3] At the start of World War Two, she worked for the United States Mint. [3] She joined the Women's Army Corps in 1943 and was one of 855 women who served in the United States Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only predominantly all-black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during ...
The Montgomery County Chronicle is a local weekly newspaper published each Wednesday for the cities of Caney, Cherryvale, Coffeyville and Independence, Kansas. It is a member of the Kansas Press Association and was formerly published as the Cherryvale Chronicle and as the Caney Chronicle. The Caney Chronicle was established in 1885. The ...
Actor (The Sandy Duncan Show, Gibbsville, Home Improvement) [84] Dianne Crittenden: 82 Casting director and actress (A Bright Shining Lie, Vendetta) [85] March 21 Ron Harper: 91 Actor (Garrison's Gorillas, Planet of the Apes, Land of the Lost, Generations, Another World) [86] Sarah-Ann Shaw: 90 Television reporter for WBZ-TV [87] March 23 Eli ...
Paul L. Montgomery, 72, American journalist and reporter (The New York Times), cancer. [166] Dagmar Normet, 87, Estonian writer and translator. [167] Jack Reynolds, 71, American professional wrestling announcer , complications from surgery. [168]