A memorial service was underway Friday near Atlanta for Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, who was killed in a car crash south of Montgomery, Alabama.
The cargo van she was riding in flipped over and was then hit by a truck on March 1, music producer and Stone’s longtime manager Walter Millsap III has said. Everyone else in the van survived except Stone, who was 63. Online tributes from fans and fellow artists poured in after her death.
Friday’s service began at 11 a.m. at Word of Faith Cathedral in Austell, Georgia, just west of Atlanta.
On Saturday, a service is planned at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
Mourners filed into the massive Word of Faith Cathedral Friday, taking their seats around a gold casket surrounded by red roses.God is good even when life is not, and so we celebrate the life of our sister that has been well lived,” Bishop Dale Bronner, the church’s senior pastor, said in opening the service.
Filmmaker and entertainment executive Tyler Perry was among those who were scheduled to speak. Many acclaimed musical artists were scheduled to perform,
The cargo van she was riding in flipped over and was then hit by a truck on March 1, music producer and Stone’s longtime manager Walter Millsap III has said. Everyone else in the van survived except Stone, who was 63. Online tributes from fans and fellow artists poured in after her death.
Friday’s service began at 11 a.m. at Word of Faith Cathedral in Austell, Georgia, just west of Atlanta.
On Saturday, a service is planned at First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
Mourners filed into the massive Word of Faith Cathedral Friday, taking their seats around a gold casket surrounded by red roses.God is good even when life is not, and so we celebrate the life of our sister that has been well lived,” Bishop Dale Bronner, the church’s senior pastor, said in opening the service.
Filmmaker and entertainment executive Tyler Perry was among those who were scheduled to speak. Many acclaimed musical artists were scheduled to perform,
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