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Local Obituaries for Families in Indianapolis and surrounding areas.
Janette Geneva (Gill) Dorsey
Apr 17, 2020
Janette was a member of Mt. Vernon M.B.C. for 67 years. She is the mother of 2, Genevieve Ware-Williams and Stephen D. Hannah. She is the grandmother of 10, great-grandmother of 18 and great-great- grandmother of 20. Janette was preceded in death by her son, Stephen; 1 grandson, 1 great-granddaughter, 1 great-grandson and son-in-law, Rodney Williams. Survivors: daughter, Genevieve; sister,...
Ethel Bell (Stewart) Adams
Apr 15, 2020
Heaven was opened for our beloved Grandmother, Sister, Aunt and Friend on April 15, 2020.
Ethel Bell (Stewart) Adams was born to Tobe Stewart Sr. and Lettie Spencer on February 26, 1928 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Ethel, affectionately called “Granny”, met W. L. Adams in her early adulthood and they were united in Holy Matrimony shortly after. To their union they...
Norman Lauroy Harris Sr. "Stormin Norman"
Apr 15, 2020
Norman Lauroy Harris Sr. aka “Stormin Norman” was born March 25, 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Leon Harris and Dorothy (Dixon) Miller.
He received his education in the Indianapolis Public Schools and attended Shortridge High School. Norman later joined the United States Marines where he served in the Vietnam War. He proudly served as a Marine from the years 1965-1969...
Mattie Sue Wells
Apr 13, 2020
Mattie Sue Wells was born to Rosia Lee Smith Adams and Carl Henry Adams, Sr. on September 2, 1931, in Christian County, Kentucky. She moved to Indianapolis with her parents and brother Carl Jr. in her early teenage years.
She married Paul M. Wells on June 14, 1958. They raised two children, Raymond O. Henson and Aidreen Wells Hart....
Kevin A. Dunson
Apr 11, 2020
Kevin A. Dunson of Indianapolis, passed away on April 11, 2020 at the age of 60. Kevin was born on February 18, 1960 to the parents of Marion and Mary Dunson. He was baptized at St. Rita’s Catholic Church as a youth and attended school there. Kevin was a member of St. Andrews Catholic Church.
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Thomas Frederick Turner
Apr 7, 2020
Thomas F. Turner, the son of Myrtle L. Gilbert and John T. Turner, was born February 24, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He received his education at Indianapolis Public School #56 and was a graduate of Emmerich Manual High School.
After graduating from high school, Thomas joined the United States Navy where he served his country from July 1976 to March...
Jean Delores (Bingham) Hill
Apr 7, 2020
Jean Delores (Bingham) Hill was born April 27, 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Alma Bingham.
She was united in Holy Matrimony to Herschell Hill for over 20 years. Herschell took very good care of Jean financially and through love, even after his passing.
Jean was later blessed to find companionship in B. Douglas Brogsdale, whom she spent the remainder of...
Loretta Mae Holland-Blaylock
Apr 6, 2020
MRS LORETTA MAE HOLLAND BLAYLOCK, one of 11 children born to Robert and Sarah Chilton Phelps, was born on August 21, 1933 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Loretta attended Indianapolis Public Schools and graduated from Crispus Attucks High School in 1951.
LORETTA professed a hope in Christ at an early age. Loretta united in Holy Matrimony to Robert Holland and to...
Roscoe Taylor Iii "Scooter"
Apr 5, 2020
Roscoe Taylor III, affectionately known as “Scooter”, was born on April 16, 1976 to Roscoe Jr. and Diane (Johnson) Taylor in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was preceded in death by his father, Roscoe Taylor Jr.; maternal grandfather, James L. Johnson Sr.; and paternal grandfather, Roscoe Taylor Sr.
Scooter accepted Christ at an earl age and was baptized by the late Andrew...
Mary Bethenia Dickerson
Apr 5, 2020
Bethenia Ferrell, aka Mary B. Dickerson, a legal stenographer and musician passed away April 5, 2020. She was a native of Syracuse, New York where she was employed at the United States Chief Attorney’s Office for 10 years before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana where she worked in the same capacity for 16 years with the Indiana State Attorney General’s Office.
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Deacon James Edward Jackson
Apr 4, 2020
James Edward Jackson was born January 8, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana to the late Edward Ozane Jackson and Erma Jean Smith-Jackson. On the morning of April 4, 2020, comfortably at home, the angel of silence came to seal the lips of our beloved. Whose soul winged in fight from this world of sin, sorrow and pain; to a place of...
Martella Marie (Abel) Bledsoe
Apr 3, 2020
87, passed away April 3, 2020. She was born June 26, 1932 in Shawneetown, IL. Martella lived through the historic devastating flooding of the Ohio River in 1937. She worked for RCA for 32 years and became a group-leader. Martella was married to Maurice Doyle Bledsoe for 53 years, before he preceded her in death. She was a member of...