Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice William Joel Blass of Pass Christian has died. Blass died Oct. 23, four days after his 95th birthday.
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. of Jackson said, “He was a great legal scholar and outstanding leader of the bar for many years. He lived professionalism by example and was an inspiration to attorneys and judges.”
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Thomas D. McIlwain, a longtime marine biologist, fishery scientist and educator in Mississippi, has died after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 71.
Officials with Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home say services are scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church of Ocean Springs. […]
Richard Nelson Current, a prolific and award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar who for decades was a leader in his field and helped shape a more realistic view of the iconic president, has died. He was 100.
Current died Oct. 26 in Boston, fellow Lincoln historian Harold Holzer said Thursday. Current’s many books included “The Lincoln Nobody Knows” and “Lincoln the President,” winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1956. He had many other interests, writing about Daniel Webster, the invention of the typewriter and the state of Wisconsin. […]
Bingham, third Senior Bishop in denomination’s 116-year history
The Mississippi Link Newswire
JACKSON, Miss— On Wednesday, Presiding Bishops, national missionaries, evangelists and members of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. will gather from around the country to remember and honor the legacy of Maurice D. Bingham, Senior Bishop Emeritus of the denomination, which has maintained headquarters in Jackson since 1896.
Services will be held 11 a.m. at Christ Temple Cathedral, 845 N. Lamar Street downtown Jackson…. […]
John H. Reed, who served as Maine governor from 1959 to 1966 and later was appointed to a U.S. ambassadorship, has died. Reed, who was 91, died Wednesday in a Washington, D.C., hospital.
The Fort Fairfield native grew up in a potato farming family and served in the Navy during World War II. Reed served in the Maine Legislature from 1955 to 1959. He first served a two-year term in the House before being elected twice to the Senate. […]
Robert Morton Duncan, the first black justice to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court, has died. He was 85.
Morton served on the high court from 1969, when he was appointed by Gov. James A. Rhodes, until 1971, when President Richard Nixon appointed him to the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. […]
Emanuel Steward, earnest yet easygoing, proved rough and tough wasn’t the only way to win in boxing.
With a twinkle in his eyes, a smile on his face and a soothing voice, Steward developed unique bonds in and out of the ring with a long line of champions that included Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Wladimir Klitschko. […]
Two days before her birthday, Natina Reed, a member of the 90s R&B group Blaque and co-star of the hit cheerleading movie Bring It On, was struck and killed by a car in Georgia on Friday.
Reed was 32. […]
Gary Collins, an actor, television show host and former master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant, died Saturday, authorities said. He was 74.
Collins, a resident of Biloxi, Miss., died of natural causes just before 1 a.m. Saturday after he was admitted Friday evening to Biloxi Regional Medical Center, according to Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove. […]
October 21, 1926 – October 7, 2012
The Mississippi Link Newswire
Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty, the woman who is wise is the one to praise. Give her a share in what her hands have worked for, and let her works tell her praises at the city gates. – Proverbs 31:30
This scripture accurately describes Dr. Cozetta White Buckley, an icon of beauty, wisdom, quick wit, generosity, diligence, hard work and compassion who was adored by her family, friends, community and fellow church members. […]
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