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Willie Stokes garnered international notoriety for the arrangements he made for his son Willie the Wimp's funeral. [12] The younger Stokes followed his father's example trafficking narcotics and rivaled his dad's appetite for gambling. Flukey said of his son, "[he was] a fine young man; he was very well liked and did a lot of gambling."
Clifford John Prock (March 13, 1929 – July 17, 2012) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1964 to 1987. [ 1 ] He compiled a record of 114–123–7 , retiring as the fifth-winningest active coach in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in 1987.
Maurice Stokes (June 17, 1933 – April 6, 1970) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National ...
He eventually returns as a self-proclaimed minister in the second season, conducting the funeral service of William Bullock and the marriage of Alma and Ellsworth. In the second-season finale he attacks Tolliver for mocking God and his newfound faith in front of him, stabbing him in the gut and walking away.
J. William Stokes (James William Stokes, 1853–1901), U.S. Representative from South Carolina; Jack Stokes (disambiguation) Jack Stokes (1923–2000), Canadian politician; James Stokes James Stokes (1915–1945), Scottish soldier; James Boulter Stokes, son-in-law of Anson Greene Phelps; James Graham Phelps Stokes, American millionaire socialist
James Graham Phelps Stokes, known as Graham Stokes (March 18, 1872 – April 8, 1960) was an American socialist, railroad president, political activist, and philanthropist. [1] He was president of the Nevada Central Railroad for forty years.
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967 , and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was one of the first black elected mayors of a major U.S. city. [ a ]
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist, especially known for hoarding [1] [2] and archiving hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, [2] [3] at which ...