Owens’s daughter Marlene Owens Rankin said of Cleveland, “Our father’s adopted home and his children’s birthplace, honors his memory with the naming of the Jesse Owens Olympic Oak Plaza. May all who ...

Robert E. Lee Goble, Sr., 90, of Guntersville, Alabama, passed away peacefully at his home on May 24, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. Funeral services will be held at Marshall Memorial Funeral ...

Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin sports minister Iris Spranger ...

Scheper out of the blue texted Owens one day and sent him a phone number for his daughter’s friend who ... “I opened the door and there's Jesse Palmer. He’s the host of the show," Owens ...

“Chic” was preceded in death by her parents, brother Jesse M. Chipman, III and his wife, Ann, husband Mervin F. Owens, Jr., daughter, Donna Kay Owens Nichols and grandson, Anthony Nichol ...

The Jesse Owens Memorial Park and Museum opened in his hometown of Oakville, Alabama, in 1996. Owens married Minnie Ruth Solomon in 1932 and they had three daughters together, Gloria, Marlene, and ...

We speak to two of his daughters Marlene and Beverly Owens, on their father and his legacy. "Rock climbing saved my Life" In the week climbing was announced as an Olympic sport for 2022 we head to ...

He is survived by his son Jesse Bryan Davenport III; daughters Debra Isaac (Tom), Dr ... Surviving siblings include sisters Martha Oswalt, Elizabeth Owens, Patricia Bozeman, sister-in-law Evone ...

(Vernon) Owens. She leaves to cherish her memory, son Ronald Sims, daughter Mother Pamela Sims, sister Mother Evangeline E. (Jesse) Edwards, God-Daughters Mary Simmons, and Lillie Moten ...

Bullock played the quiet and more reserved sister, Sally Owens ... Jesse James in 2010 after five years of marriage and a cheating scandal on his part. Bullock adopted son Louis in 2010 and ...

Jesse’s daughter Marlene Owens said: “My father was sent a letter from Luz. In it he says, “Would you promise that you will go find my son and tell him what kind of person I was?” ...

"There was no scene where the daughter sits on her father's knee ... in inaugurating the refurbished Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Jesse Owens running at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.