There are 6 article(s) tagged obituaries:

• January 2026

  • In Memoriam: Memphians who died in 2025

    Memphis lost music legends, corporate titans and community leaders in 2025. Here is a look at their lives.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 13, 2026

• March 2023

  • Facing History and Ourselves founder dies at 81

    Strom was born in Chicago but moved to Memphis when she was five years old. She founded Facing History in 1976 after piloting a Holocaust curriculum in her eighth-grade humanities classroom in Brookline, Massachusetts.

    By Jasmine McCraven March 29, 2023

• March 2022

  • Marvis Kneeland Jones, one of the Memphis State 8, dies

    In 1959, after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education ruled segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, Jones was one of the first eight Black students to attend Memphis State University (now University of Memphis).

    By Julia Baker March 15, 2022

• December 2020

  • Beale St. Music Festival artist George Hunt is dead at 87

    Since 1992, Hunt was the official artist for the Beale Street Music Festival, creating a new painting for the festival each year for nearly three decades.

    By Omer Yusuf December 06, 2020

• May 2019

  • Key designer for important Memphis building dies

    Architect Tommy Roy Polk has died. He worked with famed Memphis architect Roy Harrover in designing iBank Tower — originally known as the NBC Building — in Downtown Memphis. The building was completed in 1973.

    By Tom Bailey May 12, 2019

• January 2019

  • And now we publish obituaries

    Again and again, prior to the launch of The Daily Memphian, people would say to me, “You’ve got to have obituaries.”

    By Eric Barnes January 07, 2019