TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
George P. Mitchell 1943-2023 Business Executive, Community Leader
the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area. He was a founding member of the Planning Committee for the Nash- ville Conference on African American History and Culture, as well as serving two-terms on the Editorial Board of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly . Lovett was a Lifetime Member of Kappa Alpha Psi, a longtime member of Nashville’s First Baptist Church Capitol Hill for more than 35 years, where he served on the Board of Trustees. He was a member of Nashville’s Chi Boulé chapter of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and a member of R.H. Boyd Family Endow- ment Committee. Brother Bobby Lee Lovett was married over 38 years to Mrs. Lueatrice Green Lovett, a former educator in Nashville Public Schools. He was the proud father of five children: Todd, Bridget, Kenyatta, Catherine, and Leigh. His children blessed him with five beautiful grandchildren: Omari, William, Kiersten, Kyle, and Kennedy. He is also sur- vived by younger brother, Julian Lovett, aunts, Annie Hill and Josephine Ivory, his uncle, George Cotton, and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousin. ♦
T he Evanston (IL) Alumni Chapter mourns the loss of George P. Mitchell (Evan- ston (IL) Alumni 1990) as Mitchell entered the Chapter Invisible on June 24, 2023. George Pearry Mitchell was born November 5, 1943, in Chicago. From early childhood to his pass- ing, he was fondly known to others as “Scrappy.” He met the love of his life, Patricia, at Chicago’s Wendell Phillips High School. Mitchell grabbed the starting quarterback position at Phillips as a sophomore and never gave it up. Smitten by Pat, he also became active in high school theater to spend more time with her. After graduating in 1961, he began college at Howard University, while Pat went to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Mitchell joined Pat in Carbondale and continued his education. The two became active civil rights
encyclopedias, and schol- arly journals. Lovett’s 2005 book, The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History , won the “Tennessee History Book Award” from the Tennes- see Library Association and Tennessee Historical Commission. Other books include, A Touch of Great- ness: A History of Tennessee State University , The African American History of Nashville, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas and How It Came to Be: The Boyd Family’s Contribu- tion to African American Publishing from the 19th to the 21st Century. Lovett served on numerous boards and organizations in Nashville and Tennessee. He was a member of the board of directors for Citizens Bank, R.H. Boyd Publishing Company, the Tennessee Historical Society, the Nash- ville Historical Society, the Editorial Board of the Ten- nessee Historical Quarterly, and the Advisory Board for
advocates and married in 1965, a union that lasted until Pat’s passing in 2012. The Mitchell family moved from Carbondale to Chicago in 1976 to the Evanston/Skokie commu- nity with children Byron and Lisa. They remained pillars of the community for the remainder of their lives, fighting for equality in education, housing, and employment, and always from a foundation as Episcopalian servants of Christ. They were members of Holy Trin- ity Episcopal Church in Skokie, where George was Senior Warden, and then St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Evanston. The Illinois State Police employed Mitchell, and
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