From staff reports
REMEMBERING MLK â James Baber, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association, reviews with the Rev. Buena Dudley Paschall, pastor of Quinn Memorial A.M.E. Church in Steubenville, plans for a virtual memorial service at 6 p.m. Sunday at Mount Carmel Community Baptist Church. (Photo by Janice Kiaski)
STEUBENVILLE While the COVID-19 pandemic will impact how Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed locally, it will in no way lessen the importance of remembering and celebrating the life and legacy of the civil rights leader who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn.
The MLK Youth and Children’s Program will be marked Saturday at the Sycamore Youth Center at 301 N. Fourth St., beginning at 9:30 a.m., and include a variety of service projects, the memorial service moves to a virtual platform with the service set for 6 p.m. Sunday at Mount Carmel Community Baptist Church.
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Hampson, Arthur George III Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Reverend Arthur George Hampson III left this world on December 17, 2020, to finally rejoin his beloved wife Anita Henderson Hampson, who passed away in April of 2014, as he discovered life without the one you know to be your soul mate just isn t the same and looked forward to their reunion, anxious to be with her again.
Art was born on Aug. 27, 1933, in Seattle, Wa., and lived there until 1965 for all but the four years he spent in the U. S. Air Force during the Korean War. Then in 1961 he was called to become a Christian minister. In 1965 he graduated from Seattle Pacific College and he and his family moved on to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he entered Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He graduated from there in 1969. He went on to pastorates in Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Tennessee.