AKA Epsilon Kappa Omega Chapter Sorority honors deceasedcharter members and past presidents

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®, Epsilon Kappa Omega Chapter paid tribute to sixteen of their deceased Charter Members and/or Past Presidents, Saturday, October 17th buried in the state of Wisconsin. Grave sites where flowers were placed included: Wisconsin Memorial Park, Forest Home, Valhalla, Graceland, and Union Grove (Union Grove, WI) Cemeteries. A brief service was held at Wisconsin Memorial Park which included reflective messages and tributes. Other Charter Members and Past Presidents not buried in the state of WI were also remembered.

The 29th International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®, Dr. Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson initiated a Memorial Tribute to the Founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority where the sorority honored its 16 founders through reflective messages, nationwide commemorative events, and public tributes that celebrated their vision and enduring legacy under her administration.

Epsilon Kappa Omega Chapter chose to continue this tribute on the local level by honoring the Charter Members and Past Presidents of the sorority in September of 2022 at WI Memorial Park Cemetery under then President, Debra Brown Wallace. Under the current leadership of President Isioma Nwabuzor, Esq., the committee initiated the move to honor those Charter Members and Past Presidents buried in and out of Wisconsin. The Charter Members and/or Past Presidents included: Pauline Redmond Coggs (Charter/President), Cassandra Kelley (Charter), Clarice Green (President), Anna Mae Fisher Anthony (President), Mabel Watson Raimey (Charter), Lorraine Peters Carter (President), Juliana T. Rhoten (President), Geraldine Goens (President), Frances Brock Starms (President), Elvira Dicks (President), Mildred Parrish (President), Ethel Walker (President), Khyana K. Pumphrey (President), Annie Carlisle (President), Mary K. Ball (President); out-of-state – Dorothea Carter (Charter /President), Frances Curry (Charter), Aldon Freeman (Charter), Norma Humphrey (Charter), Edwina Thomas (Charter/President), Jodora Bernice Middleton (President), Melbia T. Rhodes (President), M. Kathleen Coleman (President), Ernestine Hansbrough (President).