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Article: Celebrities remember Ossie Davis.(Entertainment)(Obituary)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- February 28, 2005
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Celebrities, fans, and friends remembered Ossie Davis, the beloved actor, writer, activist and humanitarian during a nearly four-hour funeral in New York City.
Davis, 87, died of natural causes in Miami Beach, FL, where he was filming a movie (JET Feb. 21).
Harry Belafonte, a friend for six decades, delivered the eulogy at Riverside Church in New York City: "It's hard to fathom that we will no longer be able to call on his wisdom, his humor, his loyalty and his moral strength to guide us in the choices that are yet to be made and the battles that are yet to be fought," he said.
Thousands of mourners filed into Riverside Church in New York for ...