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KC obituaries: Dwight Jones, Cynthia Davis and Anthony Crump

Dwight Jones

Dwight Jones

Editor’s note: This feature is part of a weekly focus from The Star meant to highlight and remember the lives of Black Kansas Citians who have died.

There are those who enjoy the alley-oops in basketball or double plays and home runs in baseball – but for Dwight Jones it was NASCAR that peaked his interest the most when it came to sports.

From the Daytona 500 to the local Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, family and friends say Jones would often call them to let them know it was “race day”.

Jones’ wife, Freda Jones, says he would be glued to the television watching NASCAR drivers speed around the track, including his favorite driver: #24 Jeff Gordon, who is a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and five-time Brickyard 400 winner.

“He’d be happy I went with him to the races,” Freda Jones said. “He never got to

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 11, 2021 in Van Jones Wife
Mr. Owen D. Jones

Funeral solutions for Mr. Owen D. Jones will start off at 1:00 pm at Robert Barham Family Funeral House in Meridian, MS, Saturday, the 10th of July, 2021 with the Reverends Dr. Raymon Leake, Dr. Nathan Van Horn, and David Bishop officiating. Service Songs will be supplied by Barry Germany. Interment will adhere to at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. Robert Barham Family members Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with arrangements.

Owen Dewitte Jones, beloved partner, father, grandfather and terrific grandfather, joined the heavenly choir on Wednesday, the 7th of July, 2021.

Born on the 31st of July, 1926, in Pickens County, Alabama, Owen was one of 12 small children and survived a complicated childhood, shedding his mom at age 6. He is preceded in death by his beloved spouse Joyce Ann Abernethy Jones his father and mom Edward Columbus and Edna Sevilla Rickman Jones his 11 brothers and

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 10, 2021 in Van Jones Wife
Marvin Jones’ Winton Triangle research a personal journey

The Pleasant Plains Baptist Church, founded in1851, is one of the oldest Black and multiracial congregations in North Carolina. The brick church, built in1951, replaced the original wooden church. Photo: Contributed
The Pleasant Plains Baptist Church founded in 1851 is one of the oldest multiracial congregations in North Carolina. The brick church, built in 1951, replaced the original wooden church. Photo: Contributed

NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA — In 1845, North Carolina passed a law prohibiting free people of color from selling liquor. Fourteen years later, the law was expanded banning the sale of liquor to “… any free person of color, for cash, or in exchange for articles delivered, or upon any consideration whatever, or as a gift …”

Almost immediately, 55 white men from Hertford County requested an exemption. There does not seem to be a record of why the exemption was requested, but in his University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 2012 doctoral dissertation, Warren Milner points out that “by 1860, approximately 1,000 free people of color resided in Hertford County, giving the county one of the largest free non-white

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 6, 2021 in Van Jones Wife
Van Jones Told Kim Kardashian He Bought ‘Many Dates’ Amid Dating Rumors

  • Kim Kardashian clarified on Thursday that she’s not dating political commentator Van Jones.
  • But she stated Jones explained to her that rumors the two are relationship have gotten him “so numerous dates.”
  • Kardashian and Jones were rumored to be courting amid news of her divorce from Kanye West.
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Kim Kardashian clarified on Thursday that she’s not courting CNN political commentator Van Jones — but rumors that the two are romantically concerned have been terrific for Jones’ courting existence, she said. 

Rumors that Kardashian is dating Jones started out circulating shortly soon after news broke earlier this 12 months that Kardashian experienced split from her spouse of 7 a long time, rapper Kanye West. 

Kardashian weighed in on speculation about her courting existence for the duration of component a single of her family’s reunion chat with Television set host Andy Cohen

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 4, 2021 in Van Jones Wife
Kim Kardashian and CNN reporter Van Jones at the middle of new relationship rumors

Kim Kardashian and CNN reporter Van Jones at the center of fresh relationship rumors amid her ongoing divorce from Kanye West

  • Admirers speculate their friendship may have turned passionate during her 4-yr legislation apprenticeship with his Oakland-based mostly nonpartisan firm, #slash50
  • Resources shut to Kardashian, nevertheless, are taking pictures down speculation of a romance, indicating the pair have a extensive functioning connection jointly
  • In 2018, Kardashian and Jones worked together to efficiently get Alice Johnson pardoned from a everyday living sentence stemming from a 1996 conviction 
  • Jones not too long ago finished a extended marriage to his wife of 14 a long time, Jana Carter, in 2019
  • Kim split from estranged spouse Kanye West in February, and it was claimed they have managed to hold ‘things calm’ through their ongoing divorce 

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 3, 2021 in Van Jones Wife