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 […]
