Hortense Yvonne Hairston, 95, of Portsmouth, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at Hill View Health Care in Portsmouth. She was born June 2, 1923 in Portsmouth, a daughter of the late Russell Cardell and Genevieve Vivian Cornute Williams. Hortense was a member of Allen Chapel AME Church and a 1941 graduate of […]
There were two things Dolores Cornute always had: God and her traveling shoes. Tragedy caused her early moves; opportunity and a search for God prompted her nomadic adult life. “Sit On Your Own Bottom” She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 21, 1929, to Lacy Leon Cornute, a plasterer by trade, and Lillian Harris. Dolores was devastated […]
Arthur “Bruce” Pleasant, 72, of Carson, California, passed away Tuesday, July 21, 2015. He was born on July 30, 1943 to Thelma (Cornute) and Lorenzo Pleasant in Huntington, West Virginia. Bruce is preceded in death by his parents, brother William Richard (Pee-Wee) Pleasant and sister Sybil Carey. Bruce was the fourth child of nine of […]
Sybil Ann Carey, 69, of Columbus, Ohio, went home to join her loved ones, on Sunday, March 22, 2015. She was born on December 17, 1945 to Thelma (Cornute) and Lorenzo Pleasant in Huntington, West Virginia. Sybil is preceded in death by her parents, husband Alfonza Carey and brother William Richard (Pee-Wee) Pleasant. She is […]
