Obituaries

Jan 17, 2025

Ms. Lucille Porterfield passed away Friday, January 17, 2025 at MyMichigan Medical Center.  Age 87 years.

Jan 17, 2025

Mr. Baron L. Collins passed away Friday, January 17, 2025 at Covenant Healthcare-Cooper.  Age 75 years.

Jan 15, 2025

Mr. William E. Harris III passed away Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at Covenant Healthcare-Cooper.  Age 36 years.

Jan 14, 2025

Josiah Webster passed away Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Age 9 years. 

Jan 13, 2025

Ms. Donnie LaShone Rowe passed away on Monday, January 13, 2025, at her residence in Saginaw, Michigan. Age 58 years.

Jan 13, 2025

Mr. Willie Rodgers passed away on Monday, January 13, 2024, at Hoyt Nursing and Rehab Center, in Saginaw, Michigan. Age 84 years.

Jan 11, 2025

Jan 11, 2025

TaShyla Ann Dear departed her earthly home peacefully surrounded by her loved ones on Saturday, January 11, 2025. She was born on Sunday, December 9, 1979, to the union of Helbert and Ruthie Dear in Lansing, Michigan.  

TaShyla was educated in the Lansing Public School system. She attended Lewton Elementary School, Dwight Rich Middle School and Eastern High School. She...

Jan 9, 2025

Mrs. Willie James passed away Thursday, January 9, 2025. Age 75 years.

Jan 9, 2025

Mr. Earnest Atkins passed away Thursday, January 9, 2025. Age 75 years.

Jan 8, 2025

Mr. Joe Edward Smith passed away on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Saginaw, Michigan. Age 30 years.

Jan 8, 2025

Oh Lord you have searched me and known me, you know when I sit down and when I rise up you discern my thoughts from afar; 

Psalms 139:1-2 

Our beloved Larry D. Toney "L Toney" danced his way into Heaven's gates on January 8, 2025, at 41. Larry was born on May 10th, 1983, to Manison Toney Sr. and Teresa Yrlas on...

Jan 8, 2025

Earl Tucker Nicholson, went from labor to reward on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at his residence in Lansing, Michigan, at the age of 92 years old. He was born on Sunday, August 28, 1932, in Columbia, Tennessee, entered this world on a sharecropper farm as the seventh of nine children to Granville and Ardena Nicholson. He attended and graduated from...

Jan 4, 2025

Mr. Stanley S. Roper passed away Saturday, January 4, 2025, at his residence in Lansing, Michigan. Age 41 years.

Jan 4, 2025

Mr. Dawarn Lamar Moncrief “Sire” passed away on Saturday, January 4, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. Dawarn was born December 19, 1976, in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the only child of the late Larry Gene Moncrief and Wanda Dolores Givan. He was raised by his late grandparents Wallace and Annie Anderson. 

Dawarn received the nickname "Sire" from his cousin Tamekia as a...

Jan 4, 2025

Mrs. Rose Etta Carter departed this life and entered eternal rest on Saturday, January 4, 2025, in Lansing, Michigan at the age of 96 years old. She was born Friday, August 10, 1928, to the late Annie Mae and Willie Powe, in Camden Alabama. 

In 1968, she moved to Lansing, Michigan. In 1971, she joined and became a faithful member of...

Jan 1, 2025

Daniel Adieu Alastair Ishmel arrived on the scene in Lansing, Michigan, on November 14, 1980, brought into the world by James Robert Ishmel Sr. and Maggie Lee Ishmel. While his exact birth weight remains a mystery, we do know that by the tender age of two months, he tipped the scales at a whopping 17 pounds – a fact his daughter...

Jan 1, 2025

Reverend Mae Joyce Redfearn, age 62, of Saginaw, Michigan, passed away peacefully on January 1, 2025, surrounded by family and listening to her favorite gospel playlist. Mae Joyce was born in Saginaw, Michigan to George and Grace (Alexander) Braddock Jr. on May 19, 1962. From birth her love and faithfulness in God was seeded and cultivated by her family. 

Mae Joyce...