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Funeral/Memoriam
FAMILY NOTICE
Entertainment
Famed Singer, Nancy Wilson Dies
BIRTHDAY MEMORIAM
DEACON JOHN H. STEPHEN
As today would have been you 97th birthday, my love and thoughts are with you. God blessed us with you and we love you dearly.
Happy birthday, Dad! You were a WWII, Korean Conflict, and Viet Nam wars veteran, but most of all, you were a child of God.
Your loving daughter, Shelah Watkins.
MS. LORAINE McDUFFIE
A funeral service for Ms. Loraine McDuffie will be held at 1 p.m., on Friday, December 21, 2018, at Mount Olive AME Church.
Ms. McDuffie was born on January 23, 1939, and passed away on December 12, 2018.
Singer Nancy Wilson, whose torch song stylings made her a pop and jazz fa- vorite for more than five decades, has died at age 81. She passed on Thursday after a long illness, according to her publicist.
Wilson retired from touring in 2011, but her long time on the road as a jazz fes- tival favorite and impact via recordings that were major pop landmarks kept her presence alive. Wilson re- leased eight albums that reached the top 20 on Bill- board’s pop charts in the 1960s alone.
Although many regarded her as a jazz singer, Wilson herself said she was a “song stylist.”
Wilson collaborated with many artists, none more prominent than Cannon- ball Adderley, with whom she recorded the albums “Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley,” “Broadway — My
NANCY WILSON
Way”; “Lush Life”; and “The Nancy Wilson Show!” a best- selling concert recording.
“How Glad I Am” brought her a Grammy in 1965 for best R&B performance, and later Grammy victories in- cluded 2005’s award for best jazz vocal album for “R.S.V.P (Rare Songs, Very Per- sonal)” and 2007’s “Turned to Blue.”
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded her a “Jazz Masters Fellowship” in
Crime
2004 for lifetime achieve- ment.
Wilson also had a busy career on television, film and radio, appearing in Hawaii Five-O, Police Story, and the Robert Townsend spoof Meteor Man. She spent years hosting NPR’s Jazz Profiles series. She was also an ac- tivist in the 1960s civil rights movement, including the famed Selma march of 1965.
Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, Wilson started singing in church.
In accordance with Wil- son’s wishes, there will be no funeral service, a family statement said. A celebration of her life will be held most likely in February, the month of her birth.
She is survived by her son, Kacy Dennis; daugh- ters, Samantha Burton and Cheryl Burton; sisters, Karen Davis and Brenda Vann and five grandchil- dren.
DEATH LISTING
GUDES FUNERAL HOME
Ms. Loraine McDuffie, Tampa Ms. Lousie Wilson, Tampa
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Jeffrey Hugh Burgess, Tampa Mrs. Nina Laster, Tampa
Mr. Terry J. Torres, Tampa
INTEGRITY FUNERAL SERVICES Mr. Donald Smith, Sr., Tampa
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
John Brown, Tampa
Gloria Burgman, Tampa
Ruby Gay, Tampa
Darren Harris, Brooksville
Sherman Wills King, Tampa
Charles Kinsey, Tampa
Golden Laws, Tampa
Shondra Nicole Simmons, Jacksonville Carlton Smith, Tampa
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Infant Trenten Baker, Ruskin Mrs. Maggie Cusseaux, Tampa Ms. Theresa Miller, Tampa Mr. Fredrick Shellman, Tampa
Man Pleads Guilty
To Explosive
Device Charge
A 61-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device. He was arrested after an explosion at his home on April 11, 2018.
According to court docu- ments, members of the Tampa Police Department Bomb Squad were conducting a training exercise on N. 12th Street, when they heard a loud explosion. Their investi- gation led them to the home of Joseph David Calta- girone on E. Columbus Drive.
Once inside the residence, the officers found PVC piping, a hobby fuse, and precursor chemicals. They also found an assembled destructive device
JOSEPH CALTAGIRONE
resembling a “pipe bomb.” Caltagirone admitted to having designed, constructed, and possessed the devices. He is facing a maximum of 10 years in federal prison. A sen- tencing date has not been set.
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