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Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election

2019-05-17T23:35:26+0000

A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.


David Blackwell, Scholar of Probability, Dies at 91

2010-07-17T05:26:36+0000

A statistician and author of influential academic papers on probability and game theory, he was the first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences.


‘So Mr. Blackwell Has Died …’

2008-10-21T12:09:58+0000

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Mr. Blackwell, Fashion Critic, Dies at 86

2008-10-21T05:33:16+0000

Mr. Blackwell was a designer of over-the-top fashions and originator of the outlandishly satiric, but globally ballyhooed worst-dressed list.


Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies

2008-10-20T05:00:00+0000

Los Angeles — Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.


Mr. Blackwell, arbiter of fashion folly, dies at 86

2008-10-20T05:00:00+0000

LOS ANGELES — Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.


Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, ELSIE WILSON

2005-11-30T05:00:00+0000

BLACKWELL--Elsie Wilson, 93. Of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ, and Point O'Woods, NY, on November 26, 2005. Daughter of Susie M. and Edward T. Wilson of Denver, CO, she graduated from Mt. Vernon Seminary where she later served as a trustee and Sarah Lawrence College. Her husband of 71 years, Edward S., Jr. predeceased her in July. She is survived by her brother, Robert B. Wilson, her children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, and Marion Meserole, nine gra ...


Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, ELSIE WILSON

2005-11-29T05:00:00+0000

BLACKWELL--Elsie Wilson, 93. Of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ, and Point O'Woods, NY, on November 26, 2005. Daughter of Susie M. and Edward T. Wilson of Denver, CO, she graduated from Mt. Vernon Seminary where she later served as a trustee and Sarah Lawrence College. Her husband of 71 years, Edward S., Jr. predeceased her in July. She is survived by her brother, Robert B. Wilson, her children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, and Marion Meserole, nine gra ...


Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.

2005-07-13T05:00:00+0000

BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...


Paid Notice: Deaths BLACKWELL, EDWARD S., JR.

2005-07-12T05:00:00+0000

BLACKWELL -- Edward S., Jr., of Basking Ridge, NJ, formerly of Dorset, VT, Short Hills, NJ and Point O'Woods, NY, on July 9, 2005 at the age of 94. A graduate of Williams College 1933 and Harvard Law School, he had a distinguished career in commercial insurance brokerage. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Wilson, to whom he was married for 71 years, and his children, Janet Bent, Edward S. Blackwell III, Marion Meserole, their spouses, nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Memorial serv ...



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Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:20:50 +0000

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