Funeral services have been confirmed for Cleotha ‘Cleedi’ Staples (a founding member of the pioneering folk-gospel group, The Staple Singers), who died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease, on the morning of February 21, 2013. “We will keep on,” Mavis Staples says of her sisters’ death. “Yvonne and I will continue singing to keep our father’s legacy and our sister’s legacy […]
Cleotha ‘Cleedi’ Staples, a founding member of the pioneering folk-gospel group, The Staple Singers, has died at the age of 78. She had gracefully battled Alzheimer’s disease for the last decade and passed away peacefully at her Chicago home on the morning of February 21, 2013. Staples was born April 11, 1934 in Drew, […]
