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Cephas Bowles, the President and CEO of WBGO for more than 20 years passed away on Saturday February 21st from complications of multiple myeloma.

I'm still having a hard time talking about it. Here's the obit from the Star Ledger.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.s ... at_62.html

I'm very sorry, June.

I pulled together some information—


the (NJ) Star-Ledger obit linked in #1
WBGO's Feb. 24 blog entry ("press release")
WBGO's Feb. 25 blog entry ("memorial page")

Visitation will be held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26 at Fountain Baptist Church, 116 Glenside Ave., Summit, NJ 07901.

Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 at Fountain Baptist Church (see above), with interment immediately following at Evergreen Cemetery,
1137 N. Broad St., Hillside, NJ 07205, (908) 352-7940.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Fountain Baptist Church Manna from Heaven Food Pantry, WBGO-FM, WAER-FM, KUAT-FM,
Syracuse University Black Alumni, or Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide.



R.I.P., Cephas Bowles