In Memoriam: Sunrise – Feb. 6, 1918  Sunset – Oct. 28, 2014

​Loving Mother, always loving you, but not forgotten, although we are apart. Your spirit lives within us, forever in our hearts. Sadly missed by Children & grandchildren

Funeral services for Bro. Patrick Miles, Sr. will be held Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:00 a.m., Midway Baptist Church #2, 1535 Myrtle St. Pastor James J. Smith will officiate. Interment will be at Lincoln Park Memorial Cemetery.

Open visitation will be Friday, October 30 from noon to 8:00 p.m., Good Samaritan Funeral Home. He leaves to cherish his memories: his loving wife, Lora Miles; four daughters, four sons, seven  grandchildren, his mother, one brother, and a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Celebration of Life for Annette Burns Mobley, 72, will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, October 24, 2015 at  Mt. Chapel B.C. 4034 Flora Ave., Shreveport, La., Pastor Clarence Rice, officiating. Interment will  follow at Zion Rest Cemetery. Family visitation will be 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Friday, October 23 at  Benevolent Funeral Home, 1624 Milam St.

Mrs. Annette Burns Mobley entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, October 13, 2015.
She is survived by her beloved sister Mary Burns Brewer of Shreveport, and a host of beautiful  nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, cousins, and friends. 

Maxine Brooks Reed, 75, of Mesquite, Texas passed away October 19, 2015. Maxine was born September 18, 1940 to Willie Mae Watson and Max Brooks. Funeral services will be held Saturday October 31, 2015 at Mary Springhill AME Church in Shreveport 1:00 p.m.  The final resting place will be at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Shreveport.

Left to cherish her memory are her loving husband, Jimmie Reed; stepdaughter, Teresa of Florida; brothers, Charlie of Houston, Jack of Dallas, Fred (Deborah) of Shreveport; sisters, Lucinda, Melissa (Levon), Mary (Taylor), Georgia (Garry) all of Dallas, and Lillie (Marshall) of Shreveport; sisters­in­law, Yvonne of San Francisco, Lavonnia of Shreveport, Annie, Cherrie and Evelyn all of Little Rock; brother-­in-­law, Fletcher Reed (Gwen); six grandchildren and six great grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

TALLAHASSEE, FL ---

Dr. Sybil Mobley, the founder of Florida A&M University's renowned business school passed away in Tallahassee, FL early Tuesday morning.

Sybil Lenora Collins Mobley was born in Shreveport to Melvin Lee Collins, Sr.  (founder of the Shreveport Sun), and Cora Jones Collins.

A graduate of Central Colored High School in Shreveport, she earned her B.A. from Bishop College and, in 1961 became the first African American to earn an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

She then earned a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Illinois in 1963, becoming the first African-American woman to do so at the institution. 

She began her career at FAMU in 1963, developing a Leadership Program with students ranked in the top five percent nationally.

FAMU's School of Business and Industry was created in 1974.  When she started her career at FAMU, there was no business school.  She established an accredited program, gathered staff and faculty, and shaped a business school that occupies 130,000 square feet.  In 2007, the building for the department was named in her honor.  Her service to FAMU spanned 40 years.

She received honorary degrees from Hamilton College, Washington University in St. Louis, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and her three alma maters:  Bishop College, Wharton School of Finance, and University of Illinois.

Dr. Mobley was also consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, in a number of African countries

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James Otis Mobley; and three siblings.  She is survived by her children; Janet Mobley Sermon, Ph.D., James Mobley, Jr. and Melvin E. Mobley; her sister Malissa Collins Waters, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.

Funeral services were pending at Sun presstime.

A memorial service will be held at Lee Hall Auditorium on the campus of Florida A&M University:
1601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32301
(850) 561-2649
at 4 p.m., on Thursday, October 8th. 

Funeral services will be held at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church: 
224 North Martin Luther King Blvd., Tallahassee, FL  32301 
850-222-8440 
12 noon, on October 9th.