Ida Lee Brown has died. She was born on Feb. 26, 1921 in Bastrop, Texas to Sam and Pearl Waites.

Camille Michelle "Cammy" Johnson has died. She was born on April 8, 1950 to Julian Johnson and Dorothy Williams.
She loved to travel and was quick to end up wherever she felt she needed to be. Cammy grew up in Akron, Ohio and returned to her homeland two years prior to her death...

Linda Collins has died. She was born on Oct. 7, 1954 in Portland, Ore. to Charles and Ida Mae Collins; she was the fifth of eight children.
She graduated from John Adams High School in 1973 and shortly thereafter relocated to Oakland, Calif. to live with her sister Rose Marie (Collins) Middleton...

Rev. Harold Dean Bishop has died. He was born Aug. 25, 1940 to John Bishop Jr. and Rosetta Bishop in Tillar, Ark. He was the second of 10 children...

NEW YORK (AP) -- R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, who had been one of the most electric and successful figures in music until a car crash 28 years ago left him in a wheelchair, has died of colon cancer. He was 59.

Curtis Devers was born Sept. 1, 1956 to Clarence M. Devers and Fannie M. Devers in Shreveport, La.
He died Nov. 30, 2009.

Betty Jean Barr died Oct. 21. She was born May 24, 1944 in Pell City, Ala. to Warren & Mary Walton. She moved to Portland after graduating from Ullman High School in Birmingham, Ala. in 1962

Earmie Colbert died on Sept. 20. He was born in Hugo, Okla. on July 13, 1933 to the parents of Primer Colbert and Odessa B Ware. Earmie was a member of the Choctaw Indian Tribe in Hugo. He attended Booker T. Washington High School and went to Paris Junior College. Following college, Earmie joined the Army in 1953; He lived in Houston and Salt Lake City until he making his home in Portland in 1967. Once in Portland he worked for Portland Auto Auction, Portland Progress Cleaning Service and the U.S. Postal Service ...

Arthur Campbell died on Sept. 18. He was born in Shreveport Louisiana on Dec. 10, 1948 to the parents of Arthur Campbell Sr. and Gussie M. Campbell...

Edward Smith Dines, known to many in Portland as "Louisiana Ed," has died. Ed and his wife Doris, of forty-eight years, migrated from Louisiana to Portland in the late 1960's in search of a better life than the South afforded at that time.