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The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes. In 1927 Alexander purchased the remaining part of the business and changed the name to the Alexander Funeral Home.
Kelly Miller Alexander Sr. (August 18, 1915 – April 2, 1985) was chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a civil rights activist. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina , to Zechariah and Louise Alexander.
His father was a prominent African-American businessman and district manager of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and owner of the Alexander Funeral Home. Frederick's brother Kelly Alexander eventually became a national leader for the NAACP. Alexander graduated from Charlotte's Second Ward High School in 1926. He attended college ...
Family and friends of Alexander could not be reached Wednesday night. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee woman charged in crash that killed 53-year-old woman ...
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 ...
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— Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor (2 August 1922), replying to his deaf wife Mabel's plea "Don't leave me." "Forgive them. Bury me in Glasnevin with the boys." [80] — Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician (22 August 1922), mortally wounded in anti-Treaty IRA ambush "Mafia, Mafia, Mafia." [122]
Alexander Ferdinand Schreiner (July 31, 1901 – September 15, 1987) [1] [unreliable source?] was one of the most noted organists of the Salt Lake Tabernacle. He also wrote the music to several LDS hymns , several of which are in the current edition of the hymn book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).