, 97, passed away on Saturday, January 30, 2010. She was born on August 10, 1912, in Chicago, Illinois, to her parents Caroline (Carrie) and Charles (Charlie) Hoff. She was predeceased by her husband, Franklin (Frank) Wahl Jones, in 1975.
If black onyx could sing, it would sound like Grace Jones. The voice is hard, sharp, lustrous - and beautiful. Musicians-producers Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar provided perhaps the best placement for Grace's voice on her masterpiece, 1981's "Nightclubbing." Thirty years after the album first hit stores, its amalgamation of pop, funk, New Wave, reggae and soul still sounds like a revelation. Grace's voice still chills a room.
Shaw & Sons Funeral Directors YAKIMA - Grace Lauretta Moffett Jones, 94, died at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on Monday, July 14, 2008. Grace was born in Gibson, Montana on May 1, 1914 to Harrison (Harry) C. Moffett and Lauretta M. (Buck) Moffett. Grace moved from Montana with her parents when she was 13 years old to Portland, Oregon, and then to the Naches area when she was 14 years old. Grace graduated from Lower Naches High School in 1933. Grace is the last surviving member of the Class of 1933. She married Burton (Bert) Samuel Jones on April 9, 1934. They were married for 56 years until his death in 1990.
Keith & Keith Funeral Home YAKIMA - , 97, Yakima, died Friday, May 15, 2009 at Willow Springs in Yakima.
Mrs. Grace Jones Spencer celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, August 4, 2007, at 2 p.m. at the Sunlight Elks Lodge in Hopewell, Va. Hosted by her goddaughter, Mrs. Charlotte P. Jones (Ronnie) of Prince George, Va., "Mama Grace" was surrounded by other family members and a host of friends from the community to include residents of Hopewell Heights, the Union Baptist Church family of Hopewell and candidate for State Senate, Mr. Steve Heretick. A proclamation from the Mayor of Hopewell was read along with greetings from the White House.
Film director and writer Alex Cox acknowledges that his '80s homage to spaghetti Westerns, Straight to Hell, was a "fairly frivolous exercise." It's a picture that includes, in its closing credits, a "thanks to all the bars in Spain (too numerous to mention)." Straight to Hell is about a disparate group of gunmen, strangers, politicos, women, and weirdos who converge in an isolated town in the middle of the desert. Its once-in-a-lifetime cast includes Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude (who co-wrote the script), Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, Jim Jarmusch, and Grace Jones. It's a film in which the words mas cerveza carry the dramatic ring of "Friends, Romans, countrymen.
Continued from D1 as a dancer, corepgrapher, author and director with consummate grace. Jones prefaces what inspired him for "Serenade" by admitting, "I'm not a dance purist," which is what has led to the visionary explorations which have garnered him a roomful of awards, including a MacArthur Genius Award, Obie, Jacob's Pillow Dance Award, multiple Bessie Awards, and more.
Entered into rest on Thursday, August 10, 2006, at Westwood Nursing Home, of Avery Ave. She was the last sibling of Tom and Martha Collins. She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church of which Rev. Dennis J. Quinn is pastor.
Across the country, Cherry Jones is plunging many audience members into a cold sweat. And she couldn't be more pleased. People are constantly coming up and telling me that my character, Sister Aloysius, is bringing back nightmares of nuns and Catholic school. I'm astounded that a Methodist from Paris, Tenn., is capable of having that effect," says Miss Jones, a distinct measure of pride tingeing her voice during a phone interview from Minnesota, where she is appearing in the touring production of the Tony Award-winning play "Doubt." John Patrick Shanley's incisive and shattering drama about a resolute nun who suspects a charismatic Catholic priest of sexually abusing the school's students will play the National Theatre for a two-week run beginning Tuesday.
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