OMEGA CHAPTER ALERT FOR BROTHER KELLY OTIS PRICE II -- Fall 1967
Memorial services for Brother Kelly Otis Price II are as follows:
Monday, December 28th from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m., Public walk through viewing. Location-Price Mortuary; 1209 Sixth Street; Orange, TX 77630. Mask required. Tuesday, December 29th from 11 a.m. until 11:45 a.m., Mt. Sinai Baptist Church; 1109 Second Street; Orange, TX 77630. Walk through viewing. Mask required. Tuesday, December 29th, High Noon until, Eulogistic Service. Location-Price Mortuary; 1209 Sixth Street; Orange, Texas 77630. Service will be held on lawn of the funeral home. There will be lawn seating, audio available if you choose to remain in your car. Casket will not be reopened at this service. This will be a sacred service. Everyone is welcome.
-- Editor's note from Brother Price's hometown newspaper, The Orange Leader --
Grieving at the holidays,
By Dawn Burleigh, General Manager/Editor
On Monday, I spoke with a young man on many different topics and we started discussing Kelly Price, Sr.
Price was an exceptional man who worked at the post office, worked in realty, and believed strongly in serving the community. He served on city boards and the city council for the city of Orange. He also owned Geter Funeral Home.
His son, Kelly Price II, joined his father at the funeral home and took it over after his father passed a couple of years ago. The younger Price was a kind hearted man who also gave to the community, but quietly behind the scenes. He also took great pride in his work or whatever task he had before him. But that is not what I will remember first about him. It will always be the look he had in his eyes as he looked upon his bride, Wythel. She too had the same look in her eyes as she gazed upon him.
I was saddened and shocked when I heard Kelly Price II had passed away on Monday. My first thought was of his wife and how she was doing. Silly question because I know how I would be doing if it was my husband.
My first real visit with the younger Price concerned the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death.
As Mr. Price put it, “Every one celebrated his birth and honor him, but no talks about the day he died.”
Mr. Price attended Morehouse College, King’s alma mater, when he heard the news of King