TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
of public high schools in the District of Columbia. In 2013, he received the Lamont H. Lawson Award based on his contributions to the Washington (DC) Alumni Chapter, the local community and the fraternity more broadly. Brother Leroy Brown, Jr. is survived by his wife Rose A. (née Lanier) Brown Rose; sister Thelma Braggs; daughters Dr. Sheila Brown, Valerie (Garry) Grant and Selena (William) Smith; grandchil- dren William Smith, II, Jasmine Smith, Makayla Smith and Garry Grant, Jr. and numerous nephews, nieces, cousins and other extended family and friends. Brig. Gen. (ret). David M. Hall 1928–2020 U.S. Air Force, Author, Professor Retired Brigadier General David M. Hall (Xi 1951) entered the Chapter Invisible on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at the age of 91. Hall was born June 21, 1928 in
Ramsey; special cousins, Tenille Pickett, Tiama Pickett, Tamiko Pickett, Erika Newman and Tracy Tootle, Kosi Pickett and Ryan Dixon; special friends, Chris Winters, Cory Frye, Anthony Brown, Omar Rushdam, Antonio Singleton, Danny Roberts, Jenaea Rayford-Igbekele and Schmari Fultz Davis; and a host of other relatives and friends. Leroy Brown, Jr. 1937–2020 Computer Engineer, Professor, U.S. Army
Raymond Lee Bass Jr. 1979–2019 Health Inspector
Raymond Bass (Indianapolis (IN) Alumni 2017) entered the Chapter Invis- ible on July 27, 2019 at the age of 40. Raymond Lee Bass, Jr. was
born July 10, 1979 in East Chicago, IN to Raymond Bass, Sr. and Brenda Flake. Bass received his primary education at Chase Elementary School. He attended Horace Mann High School in Gary, IN where he played basketball as a point guard and graduated in 1998. He later attended Ball State University in Mun- cie, IN where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in health science in 2004. He earned his masters degree from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapo- lis in 2017. Bass was a health inspector for the Marian County (IN) Health Depart- ment for 13 years. He was a member of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. He married Natalie Johnson on July 26, 2014, and to that union two children were born. Trey and Taylor Bass. He enjoyed playing basketball, rapping, traveling, and fishing. He was preceded in death by his father, Raymond Lee Bass, Sr; his grandpar- ents, Tommie Lee Bass, Dorothy Flake, Willie C. Clark and Hattie Lee Bass; un- cles, Frank Pickett and Howard Pickett; aunts, Mary Ann Bass and Gwendolen Adams. Brother Raymond Bass is survived by wife, Natalie M. Johnson; mother, Brenda L. Flake; grandmother, Allie Clark; son, Trey Lee Bass; daughters, Taylor L. Bass and Trinity Johnson; his brothers, Emanuel D (Maria) Flake, and Andre (Amber) Flake; aunts, Verdell Flake, Geneva Sellers, Shelly Cooper and Belinda Richardson; uncles, Harry (Evette) Pickett and Eddie (Shirley) Bass; nieces, Kayla Flake, Sidney Flake and Bailey Flake; nephew, Trenton
Leroy Brown, Jr.(Gamma Chi
1957) entered the Chapter Invisible on April 4, 2020 at the age of 82. Born in Savannah, GA on September 26, 1937, to Leroy and
Dorothy C. Brown. He earned a BS in Mathematics from Savannah State Uni- versity. While in college he also joined Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society. He later earned an MS in Computer Science from American University in Washington, DC. After graduating, Leroy moved to Wash- ington, DC where he joined the Army Corps of Engineers. He served in the US Army Reserve and enjoyed a distin- guished career in public service. He re- tired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer engineer in 1998. Following his retirement, he served as an adjunct professor of math- ematics and computer science at Mont- gomery College and Strayer University. He retired as a computer engineer from Goddard Space Flight Center in 1998. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi ® , Brown was a member of the Washing- ton (DC) Alumni Chapter. Served as the chapter’s 29 th Polemarch and was polemarch when Washington (DC) Alumni hosted the Fraternity’s 66 th Grand Chapter Meeting in 1985. De- voted to education and achievement, he spearheaded the establishment of the Kappa Scholarship Endowment Fund, which awards scholarships to graduates
Gary, IN, the young- est son of Grace and Alfred Hall. He graduated from Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1951. He subsequent- ly earned a master's degree in educa- tional sociology from North Carolina A&T in 1966. Hall is also a graduate of Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College and Air War College in at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort Lesley J. McNair, in Washington, D.C. In 1976 he attended the advanced management program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in August 1951 and received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in June 1953. In 1958, Hall entered the data processing career field while stationed at Oxnard Air Force Base, CA. He was assigned in 1960 to Clark Air Base, Philippines as a data processing officer.
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