African Americans Buried at Crown Hill
We’re kicking off our first newsletter of Black History Month with a continuation of our year-long series highlighting people buried on the Crown.
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Walter Blackburn
(February 21, 1938 – August 9, 2000)
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Credit: Facebook
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Walter Blackburn inherited his father’s passion to make the world, and Indianapolis specifically, a better place. While his father, Cleo Blackburn, did it by building Flanner House into one of the Midwest’s greatest social service organizations of the 1940s and 1950s, Walter Blackburn did it by designing buildings.
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Amos Carpenter, Ph. D.
(March 12, 1939 – October 30, 2012)
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Born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and educated at Durham University and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, and at Kent State University in the United States, Amos Carpenter joined the Math Department at Butler University in 1984, serving 29 years as a Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, and as the Department Head from 1992-2000 and from 2007-2011.
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Frank Perry Lloyd, M.D.
(October 20, 1919 – August 27, 2002)
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Credit: Facebook
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Dr. Frank Lloyd served many roles in Indianapolis. He was a prominent doctor, medical researcher, and the first African American president of Methodist Hospital. He was also an effective civic leader that helped transform Indianapolis to major league status.
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