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A Craven County legend, former Sheriff Calton Windley "Pete" Bland, passed away on Nov. 27, 2021. Remembering former Craven County Sheriff Pete Bland (1935-2021), A local icon Skip to main content
This April, Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, visited Washington, D.C., to deliver a speech at the Library of Congress. “By a show of hands,” she asked the audience, “can any of you tell me the other six women who died in jail in July 2015 along with Sandra Bland?” Nobody could. Those women are recorded here, along with hundreds of others.
Sandra Annette Bland (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015) was from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and was one of five sisters.She attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois and graduated in 2005, then Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
Two top executives of Grace Memorial Funeral and Cremation Services are each charged with ten felonies in a criminal complaint that details a scheme involving forgery, theft and fraud, court ...
The show centered on the relationships between the employees, in particular Chuck Wissmiller and his three daughters, all of whom worked together at the mortuary during the show's run. Each episode featured one or two funerals with families who shared their grief while celebrating the life and contributions of their loved ones.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Sammy Bland at RIR. Samuel William Bland, Jr., (born April 14, 1929, Rocky Mount, North Carolina – died November 9, 2018, Harrisonburg, Virginia), was an American who was active in broadcasting and entertainment circles for more than five decades, broadcasting the first Daytona 500 [1] stock car race, known throughout Eastern North Carolina for live television and radio performances and ...
In an eerie voicemail uncovered Wednesday, Sandra Bland told a friend of how confused and "at a loss" she was to be stuck in jail after a routine traffic stop went wrong. "I'm still just at a loss ...