Houma - Bessie Coleman, 93, a resident and native of Houma, LA, passed away peacefully on Tuesday February 22, 2022 at 5:18 AM. Visitation and funeral services will be observed from 8:00a.m. until ...

Bessie Coleman was the first Black woman to hold a pilot's license. A hundred years after her first public flight in 1922, an all-Black, all-female crew flew from Dallas to Phoenix in her honor. Good ...

BESSIE E. COLEMAN “GRANNY” Born on October 7, 1915 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Entered into eternal peace on August 1, 2003. Bessie was a spirited pioneer and championed the ideas of love and giving to ...

Bessie King age 89 of Gary, IN. passed away June 23,2022. All Services Saturday July 2,2022. Wake 9:30a.m. Funeral 11:00a.m. at Powell Coleman Funeral Home 3200 W. 15th Ave Gary, IN.

She’s soared through Flashback before, but Women’s History Month especially seems a fine time to return to the story of Bessie Coleman — her grace, her grit, her daring. “By walking history’s pathways ...