TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
Trust Selection and Advisory Screening Committees; the Family Christians of America Association (FCAA), the Boy Scouts of America; the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); the Florida Agricul- tural & Mechanical University (FAMU) Alumni Association; World Vision; Work and Gain Economic Self-Sufficiency (WAGES) Coalition; Greater Bethel Federal Credit Union; and Chairman of the Board of the St. James A.M.E. Federal Credit Union. Rolle was the recipient of the Florida A&M Alumni Outstanding Service Award; Apostolic Revival Center Usher Board Community Service Recognition; World Vision Award, and the National Women of Achievement Profiles of Prominence Award. Additionally, he received special recognition from the City of Miami, Gladeview Homeown- ers Association, Opa-Locka, and Arcola Lakes Elementary Schools. Brother Dorrin D. Rolle was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Judith; siblings: Samuel E. Rolle, Jr. and Sandra Rolle. He is survived by his children: Yvette (Thomas), Tangilar (Herman), Damon (LaSheika); grandchildren: Sha- reese (Kenyatis), Brian, Jasmin, Danyel, Herman III, Jayla, Diana, and Dane, and four great-grand-children: Kaiyanni, Zahria, Sarabi and Brinay; brother, John (Milagros); and a host of relatives, close friends, and constituents.
coln (MO) University where he earned a B.A degree and later a MPA.
munity. He later enrolled at Westtown Prep, a Quaker school in West Chester, PA, as well as Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, NC which was founded by African American author and educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown. He attended the University of Ohio for two years and later transferred to North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) in 1960. He graduated from Eckels College of Mortuary Science at Temple University in 1961. He was a Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and was a member of the Durham (NC) Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Kappas of Dur- ham Foundation, Inc. He was the CEO of the Scarborough & Harrgett Celebration of Life Center, Inc., a 149-year-old family business. Scarborough & Hargett is Durham’s old- est African American funeral home and is the fifth oldest in the country. Food grocer J. C. Hargett started the funeral home back in 1871 in Kinston, NC. The partnership strengthened after the elder Scarborough married Hargett’s daugh- ter, Daisy. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was founded two years prior to the funeral home coming to Durham. He was known as a historian with- out portfolio and had a photographic memory. A visit to his office might entail him to pull out photos of tennis great Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson. These two tennis pioneers’ were nurtured at all-Black tennis tournaments held at the Algonquin Tennis club which was next door to his childhood home during segregation. He was on the tennis team while at North Carolina Central Univer- sity. He would recall John McClendon, the pioneering North Carolina Central University basketball coach who was a student of James Naismith, the game’s inventor, and who went on to create the fast break, zone press and “four corners” offense made famous by former UNC- Chapel Hill coach Dean Smith. "Skee- pie" will be remembered for his indelible
Rudd enlisted in the United States Air Force (USAF) and retired from the USAF with the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. He also met and later mar- ried his one and only true love, Carrye Broome during this time. From this loving union they were blessed with three wonderful and successful children, Sherry, Tracy and Alphonzo, Jr. Rudd was a devoted, loving and success- ful husband and father. God blessed them to share sixty two wonderful years together. Rudd served faithfully as co-chairman of Deacons and sang in three choirs until his health failed. Rudd was a great encourager and affectingly gave some pet names. Deacon Rudd leaves to cherish his precious memory by his loving wife, Carrye, Sherry Rudd, Tracy Griggs (Quincey) and Alphonzo Rudd II; 10 grandchildren, Aujanae Rudd, Brandon Verdell, Vewiser Dixon, Rusty W. Rudd, Jesse Rudd, Judd Rudd, Cash R. Rudd, Vaylin Collier, Sierra Griggs and Surrena Griggs; Two great grandchildren, Khalil Rudd, Zahir Dixon; two sisters, Nancy Turner, Katherine Mustin (Kermit) and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins. Submitted by Victor Harper
John C. Scarborough III 1937–2020 Civic Leader, Historian, Mortician
Alphonzo Rudd 1934-2020 Public Administrator, U.S. Air Force
John Clarence “Skeepie” Scarbor- ough III (Alpha Kappa 1958) en- tered the Chapter
Brother Alphon- zo Rudd (Alpha Mu 1953) entered the Chapter Invis- ible on May 22, 2020 at the age of 86. He was born on October 10, 1934 in Magnolia,
Invisible on No- vember 7, 2020. He was born on September 12, 1937 in Durham, NC to the J. C. and Hattie Strong Scarborough, Jr.
AR, the third child of the late Eugene and Erma Rudd. In 1952, he graduated from Manuel High School located in Muskogee, OK. He graduated from Lin-
Scarborough attended Whitted Elemen- tary School in the Durham Hayti Com-
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