Gospel Great Albertina Walker Has Passed Away

Jermyn Davidson · #1 10-15-2010, 02:58 PM

In a hospital in Chicago. She was 81.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...cal&id=7726441

coadie · #2 10-15-2010, 03:08 PM

I have never heard of her. Was she a Pentecostal??

Jermyn Davidson · #3 10-15-2010, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by coadie

I have never heard of her. Was she a Pentecostal??

She sang like one, but she was Baptist through and through.

I believe the funeral was held at the same Baptist church she grew up in.

The Apostolic Church of God in Chicago held a musical tribute in her honor, but all things read that she was Baptist.