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In 1922, Lewis purchased the Memphis Red Sox, a baseball team in the Negro leagues. He also financed the construction of Martin Stadium (sometimes called "Lewis Park") in Memphis. At the time, the city's hotels were racially segregated, and opposing team members were lodged at the funeral home. [1] [2]
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Elizabeth Jones was born in 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee as the daughter of freed slaves.. She married Louis Bolden (1892–1955) in 1908 when she was eighteen and he was sixteen, and their first child, a son, James Ezell Bolden, Sr. (23 September 1910–18 September 1986) was born two years later when she was twenty and he was eighteen.
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media ...
A heavily guarded funeral service was held Wednesday in Memphis for Anthony “Big Jook” Mims, the older brother of noted Memphis rapper and CMG record label head Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.