Posted by Joan Harvey, The Oregonian Joan Harvey, The Oregonian –> July 25, 2009 09:00AM
Earl Henry Winchester
Born: Oct. 5, 1921, in Kinsley, Kan.
Died: July 11, 2009, in Portland
Survivors: Wife, Virginia B.; daughter, JoAnn “Jody”; sons, James, Phillip and Peter; sisters, Mellow Dee Barnett, La Verna Fuller, Dorothy Marshall, Elva June Terry, Norma Kennedy; and one grandchild
Service: Has been held
Remembrances: Bethel A.M.E. Church
One Sunday morning in 1979, Earl Winchester stood in Wilshire Methodist Church in Northeast Portland and lifted his voice in song.
It was a brooding, woeful concert of what he called Negro spirituals, sung in the traditional way he insisted on, a lone male voice with simple piano accompaniment. The tall, distinguished-looking man was dressed in an impeccable gray suit and wine-colored tie, his demeanor and voice echoing his deep religious conviction and the heritage he knew so well.
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What a rich, full life!!
Thank you for reporting on “our” history. It’s very important that our history is acknowledged just as is the history of others!