LOWELLVILLE — Loretta C. Walkama, 102, passed away peacefully, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, at her home. Born July 21, 1923, in Louisville, Kentucky, she was the daughter of John and Anna Wacker Arnold. On Oct. 13, 1945, Loretta married the love of her life, Eugene Walkama. The two shared ...
COLUMBIANA — Munir “Mike” Rafidi, a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, peacefully passed away Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, at the age of 85. He leaves behind his cherished wife of 58 years, Marlene Jane Carbon Rafidi, with whom he built a beautiful life. Munir’s ...
EILEEN ANERINO, 61, Girard. SERVICES: noon Tuesday, St. Edward Church. CALLING HOURS: 11 to 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, church. BERTHA T. BARTOS, 92, Campbell. SERVICES: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Christ the Good Shepherd Parish, Campbell. CALLING HOURS: 9 to 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, church. PATRICK M. CHRYSTAL, 72, Youngstown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Tuesday, St. Patrick Church, Youngstown. GEORGE ECONOMIDES, 83, Masury. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Farrell, Pa. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Briceland Funeral Service, Brookfield, and 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, ...
DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. Her grandson Ike Howard said Monday that she died surrounded by family at a Tulsa hospital. Sustained by a strong faith, she raised three children, worked as a welder in a shipyard during World War II and spent decades caring for families as a housekeeper. Tulsa was mourning her loss, said Mayor Monroe Nichols, the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance and resilience in such classics as “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get it If You Really Want” and “Vietnam” and starred in the landmark movie “The Harder They Come,” has died at 81. His wife, Latifa Chambers, confirmed his death Monday. Chambers and Cliff’s three children also posted a message on his social media sites that he died from a “seizure followed by pneumonia.” Additional information was not immediately available. “”To all his fans around the world, ...
BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82. Brown — who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin — died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, his widow, Karima Al-Amin, said Monday. A cause of death was not immediately available, but Karima Al-Amin told The Associated Press that her husband had been suffering from cancer and had been transferred to the medical facility ...
