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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...