Died

Died: Lucille Field Brown, 69, an educator for nearly 40 years, of lung cancer at her Chatham home in Chicago. Brown, a native Chicagoan, served as a teacher, district coordinator and principal in District 218, Oak Lawn, IL, for 38 years. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international honor society of women educators, and made history when she became its first Black president.

She retired from education in 1991 to pursue her passion for bird breeding ... Kenneth Wilson, 85, a businessman, developer, former head of the Marion, IN, chapter of the Urban League and former Afro-American Newspapers executive who once worked in advertising at Johnson Publishing Company, after undergoing abdominal surgery ... Mildred L. Hastings, 86, a native Floridian and granddaughter of slaves who was the mother of Alcee Hastings, the first Black federal judge in Florida and a U.S. congressman, after a lengthy illness and complications from heart disease at the Westside Regional Hospital in Plantation, FL ... Laura Cooper Davis, 105, mother of legendary actor-playwright Ossie Davis, died at her home in Mount Vernon, NY.