Jimmie C. Inghram<\/strong>, a former member of Peoples Temple whose wife Alice and daughter Ava died in Jonestown, died on July 24, 2019. A remembrance by his sister Vera Inghram Washington appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Timothy Glenn Tupper Jones<\/b>, the adopted son of Jim and Marceline Jones who was known in Jonestown as Tim “Day” and who was in Georgetown on November 18, died of a heart attack on April 20, 2019. <\/p>\n Cleveland Newell<\/strong>, who was in Georgetown with the basketball team on November 18, 1978, died in Illinois on August 31, 2019. He was 64. A tribute from his sister Hattie Newell appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Steven Katsaris<\/strong>, the father of Temple member Maria Katsaris and a member of the Concerned Relatives, died on July 26, 2019. He flew to Guyana on several occasions to see his daughter, including in the company of Leo Ryan in November 1978, but chose not to go out to Jonestown on November 17, 1978. His obituary is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n John V Moore<\/strong>, a Methodist minister whose sermon<\/a> of November 26, 1978 \u2013 eight days after the tragedy \u2013 was the first to speak for the people of Jonestown, died on July 27, 2019, six weeks shy of his 100th birthday. He was the father and grandfather of three of the Jonestown dead, and the father of this site\u2019s manager, Rebecca Moore. His collected writing for the site appears here<\/a>. An obituary \u00a0appears here<\/a>. A remembrance by Fielding McGehee appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lester Kinsolving<\/strong>, the San Francisco Examiner\u00a0<\/em>reporter whose 1972 series on Jim Jones was the first critical coverage of the Peoples Temple leader, died<\/a> on December 4, 2018. Remembrances of him were written by\u00a0Daniel J. Flynn<\/a> and Joseph Farrah,\u00a0<\/a>two correspondents for WND News.<\/em><\/p>\n Carmen Gillespie<\/strong>, the author of a poetry collection, Jonestown: A Vexation<\/em>, and the organizer of a semester-long lecture series on Jonestown in 2013 at the Griot Institute of Africana Studies at Bucknell University, died on August 30, 2019. A collection of her writing for this site appears here<\/a>. A remembrance by Rebecca Moore appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Danny Kahalas<\/strong>, the longtime husband of former Temple member Laurie Efrein, died November 26, 2018.<\/p>\n In addition, we learned this year of other deaths from previous years<\/strong><\/p>\n Les Mathison<\/strong>, a Jonestown pioneer who left the Temple before the mass migration, died in 2017.<\/p>\n Lynn Crook<\/strong>, an American pathologist who\u00a0visited Jonestown in the immediate aftermath of the deaths, died<\/a> on July 17, 2013.<\/p>\n James Schollaert<\/strong>, a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who accompanied Leo Ryan to Guyana in 1978 \u2013 but who remained behind in Georgetown when the congressional party flew out to Jonestown \u2013 died<\/a> in February 2013.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tim-Jones.jpeg\")
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<\/a>Unita Blackwell<\/strong>, the first black woman to be elected mayor of a town in Mississippi \u2013 and whose appearance before the Peoples Temple congregation in 1976 was monitored by a surveillance team allegedly working with then-Sen. John Stennis (D-Mississippi) \u2013 died on May 13, 2019. The New York Times<\/em> obituary appears here<\/a>; The Washington Post<\/em> obituary appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n