Johnny Dye was born to Flora Booker and Dave Dye, in Batesville, Mississippi, on July 22, 1940. He was the youngest of seven children: two sisters and four brothers. John’s early education was in Batesville, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee. In 1959 Johnny moved with his brother and sister-in-law to New Haven, Connecticut. There he continued his education at Hillhouse High School and graduated high school while being employed at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Elizabeth McDowell Foster (98) of New Haven, Connecticut, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital. Elizabeth McDowell was born in Blairsville, Pa., on April 8, 1926. She was the daughter of the late Dudley and Adline Butts McDowell.
June Williams Davis, age 92, and longtime resident of New Haven, CT entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. She was the daughter of the late George K. and Esther (Glasgow) Williams, born on June 7, 1932. June was also the mother of the late Glenda Paige Boyd.
Hazel Mae Harrington, the daughter of late Willie Clifton Harrington, and the late Mary Louise Harrington. She was born in Rocky Hill. Hazel worked at the Hamden Children’s Center, where she utilized her doctor assistant degree. She was a volunteer at Katherine Brennan elementary school as a volunteer. Because of her giftedness at working with children, she was asked by Dr. James Comer to assist him in his work. Dr. James P. Comer is a leading child psychiatrist who has served as the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center since 1976.
Robert DuVernet Parker, whose quiet passion and warm commitment to the arts and education enriched the lives of thousands of students and artists, died peacefully at home, on November 8, 2024 at the age of 74, surrounded by his family.
Well-known in New Haven as a teacher and then Director at ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven’s Audubon Arts District, Bob was a deeply loved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend, as well as a trusted leader and friend to so many communities and institutions.
Margaret Ann (Jerry) Lewis, 89, of New Haven, Conn., went to be with her heavenly Father on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 with her loving son, Terry Lewis, by her side. She is the daughter of Moses and Adell (Wiles) Jerry, born on Sept. 7, 1935 in Darlington, South Carolina.
Evangelist Sandra L. Willis was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1948 to the late Clarence and Willie Mae Brown-Willis. She was the youngest of three children. She was the mother of Vaughn M. Willis, her only son, her EVERYTHING!
Shirley A. Cox-Cheek, 82, went to her eternal resting place on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. She was the daughter of the late John Frank Edwards and Vivian O. Cox, born March 1, 1942, in Greenville, South Carolina. She attended public school in New York City. Shirley worked as an outstanding Nurse Assistant at Whitney Manor for many years. She was later employed by Yale-New Haven Hospital as an exceptional Environmental Associate where she retired in 2009.
On Sunday, Oct. 27, in the year of our lord 2024, The Arc Angel Gabriel sounded his horn and the matriarch of her family, at the age of 90, answered the call and peacefully went home.
On Sunday October 6, 2024 at approximately 2:45 pm, God called Dorothy P. Mooring home. Dorothy was the first born to William Petaway and Maggie Petaway. Her formal education was in the New Haven Public Schools (if they had cooking classes in high school, I am sure she was in one of them!). She was a long-time member of Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church on Chapel Street in New Haven, Conn. Dorothy enjoyed good gospel music and cowboy movies. She also enjoyed and did a great amount of walking; she would walk from her home to downtown New Haven. Also at times, she would walk on Dixwell Ave to the Hamden Plaza just like it was nothing!
Mary Virginia Rountree, 83, of New Haven, Connecticut, transitioned peacefully on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. She was born on March 1, 1941, in Gates County, North Carolina to the late John Henry Riddick and Maggie Beatrice Sawyer. She graduated from Central High School in Gates County, North Carolina in 1959. She moved to Connecticut in 1967 and reunited with Johnnie Rountree, the love of her life.
