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Article: The Record.(brief obits)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- The Report Newsmagazine
- Article date:
- May 28, 2001
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DIED: Very Reverend Wilbur K. Howard, 89, first black moderator of the United Church of Canada; from the complications of Parkinson's disease, in Toronto. He was born in Toronto, the son of a railway porter. He graduated from Emmanuel College in 1941 with a degree in theology. Following graduation, he could not find a church that would accept him. He was appointed by the church to various jobs in its youth programs in Ontario and also served as Christian Education Secretary for the Manitoba Conference of the United Church. He faced discrimination most of his life but he rarely spoke about it. More than 20 years after he was ordained he did find a church, the Dominion ...