Census

Jet, August 25, 2003

Died: Roosevelt Barlow, 85, one of the first Black captains in the Philadelphia Fire Department who also helped found the department's organization for Black firefighters, of heart failure at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia ... Arthur Fuller Smith, Sr., 90, the former director of housing management for the Atlanta Housing Authority and father of Atlanta photographer Bud Smith, in Atlanta ...

Noted singer-producer Skip Scarborough, 58, who penned or co-penned such hits as Earth, Wind & Fire's Can't Hide Love, Anita Baker's Giving You The Best That I Got and The Emotions' Don't Ask My Neighbors, of cancer in Los Angeles.