Philly native Teddy Pendergrass has died at the tender age 59. The specific circumstances leading to Teddy’s death have not yet been reported, but he had been in the hospital for the past several months after undergoing colon cancer surgery. Teddy’s son, Teddy Pendergrass II, reported that the recovery since his father’s surgery had not been going very well. In 1982, Teddy was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. While he maintained a career on some level, his signature voice that we loved in the 70s an 80s was not quite the same.

Anita Williams, mother to Terrence Howard and five other children, lost her battle with colon cancer this past Thursday, September 25, 2008.  Obituary excerpt from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette below. Anita Williams got her talent the old-fashioned way. She inherited it. Her mother was a singer in Cleveland. Her grandmother, Minnie Gentry, was an actress who [...]