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DEATH LISTING
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Gloria Jean Moore,
JACKSON FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Georgianne Man- ning, Tampa
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Ms. Betty Beaver, Tampa
Mrs. Erlene Butler, Tampa
Mrs. Elease Simon, Tampa
Mrs. Debbie “Deborah” Watson, Tampa
Little Miss Harmony Williams, Tampa
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Carrol Challenger, Zephyrhills, FL
Daniel Harris, Tampa
Mrs. Patricia Lett, Ruskin, Florida
Anaishe Chidavaenzi (In- fant), Ruskin, Florida
Jayden Ojeda, Tampa
Mr. Robert Anthony Owens, Tampa
Tampa Mrs.
Bettie
Williams,
Tampa
GUDES FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Veronica Camtiz, Tampa
Mr. Roneill Slaton, Tampa HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Minister Linda B. Angrim, Tampa
Baby girl Delilah London Taylor, Tampa
Mr. Michael Louis Wyly, Tampa/US Army Veteran
INTEGRITY FUNERAL SERVICES
Mr. Augustine Anton- giorgi, Tampa
Mr. Reed Bivins, Tampa
MRS. ELEASE S. SIMON
Mrs. Elease S. Simon, of Tampa, FL passed away Satur- day, September 28, 2019. Fu- neral services will be conducted Wednesday, Octo- ber 9, at 11 a.m., at Ray Williams Memorial Chapel, 301 N. Howard Avenue, Tampa, FL, Pastor Donald Lott, officiating. Interment will follow in Rest Haven Me- morial Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Elease S. Simon was a native of Lake City, South Car- olina and a resident of Tampa for approximately 15 years. She was educated in the Lake City School System and retired as a Seamstress from Olanta Manufacturing Company. She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Wilson Single- tary and Mary Barr Singletary and husband, Tom Simon.
She leaves to cherish her memory: one sister, Ether Mae Epps; two sons, Willie Singletary (Julie) of Moreno Valley, CA, and Tedric Simon, of Lake City, SC; two daugh- ters, Emma Simon, of Tampa, and Wanda D. White (Curtis) of Clearwater; two grandchil- dren; four great grandchil- dren; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other rela- tives and friends.
The remains will repose after 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 8, at Ray Williams Funeral Home, 301 N. Howard Avenue. Arrangements entrusted to RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME, Rhodes & Northern, Owners.
The family of Jessye Norman has said that fu- neral services will possibly be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019.
Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Cen- ter Honor, died last week, ac- cording to family spokesperson, Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 74.
A statement released to The Associated Press on Mon- day (Sept., 30th) said Nor- man died at 7:54 a. m. EDT, from septic shock and multi- organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she suffered in 2015. She died at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, and was surrounded by loved ones.
Norman was born on September 15, 1945, in Au- gusta, Georgia, in segrega- tionist times. She grew up singing in church and around a musical family that included pianists and singers. She earned a scholarship to the historically black college, Howard University in Wash- ington, D. C., to study music, and later studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Michigan.
Eventually she made her operatic debut in 1969 in Berlin, wowing audiences around the world on stages in Milan, London and New York thanks to her shining vocals,
JESSYE NORMAN ...Grammy Award Winner dead at 74
no matter the language. The New York Times described her voice as “a grand mansion of sound.”
She’s earned 15 Grammy nominations throughout her illustrious career, picking up her first at the 1985 show for best classical vocal soloist per- formance for “Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel.” She earned Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
In 1997, at age 52, Nor- man became the youngest person ever to earn the Kennedy Center Honor in the organization’s 20-year history at the time. She received her National Medal of Arts from former President Barack Obama and has earned hon- orary doctorates from a num- ber of prestigious schools, including Juilliard, Harvard and Yale. She is a member of British Royal Academy of Music and Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Norman even has orchid named after her in France, and the country also made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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Jessye Norman
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