Census

Jet, Dec 16, 2002

Died: Elder Washington Johnson, Sr., 77, retired employee with the United States Steel Corporation in Birmingham, AL, after 40 years of service, and brother of the late JET Executive Editor Robert E. Johnson, at his Birmingham home after a short illness ... Dr. Nelson H. Stringer Jr., 54, an expert on uterine fibroids who founded and directed the Fibroid Uterine Treatment Center of Chicago, of heart failure at Rush-Presbyterian-St.

Luke's Medical Center in Chicago ... Winston E. Moore, 73, the first African-American prison warden (Cook County-Chicago) in the United States, of heart failure at his home in Banning, CA ... Rev. L. Venchael Booth, 83, founder of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Zion Baptist Church and Olivet Baptist Church in Cincinnati and recent pastor of Church Upon the Rock in Anderson, IN, following a long illness in Cincinnati ... Arthur J. McClung Sr., 90, a civil rights leader and one of the first Black Southern mayors (Columbus, GA, for 52 days after Mayor J.R. Allen died), after a lengthy illness at the Covenant Woods Retirement Community in Columbus.