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Richard R. Jiggetts, who was instrumental in rebuilding of First Baptist Church Centralia, dies at 98 When arson destroyed the historic but vacant former sanctuary of First Baptist Church Centralia in 1996, everyone bemoaned the fiery loss of an irreplaceable church building.

Restoration seemed impossible because plans for the 90-year-old structure at 4412 Centralia Road had long since disappeared from First Baptist and Chesterfield County records. The church, itself, had moved more than 30 years earlier to its current location on Kingsland Road.

Enter Richard Roosevelt Jiggetts, a congregation Mr. Jiggetts member.

A skilled machinist by trade, Mr. Jiggetts enjoyed two crucial pastimes — carpentry and drafting architectural plans.

Tapped by the pastor, Dr. Wilson E. B. Shannon, who had vowed to rebuild, Mr. Jiggetts from memory drew plans to the original specifications that the engineering firm of Beamon and Associates and the contractor used.

The result after just a year: A virtually identical building that now is used for special events. An impressed Virginia Department of Historic Resources later approved the structure as a historic landmark.

Mr. Jiggetts and his skills are being remembered following his death on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. He was 98.

Family and friends celebrated the life of the county native on Friday, Feb. 28, at the church he had belonged to most of his life and where he served as a deacon. Survivors include his daughters, Dr. Jane J. Baskerville and Dr. Jacqueline J. Bates; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Rev. William E. Clarke, longtime teacher and minister, succumbs at 83

The Rev. William Edward Clarke built a reputation as a kind, helpful person in following two career paths — teaching and the ministry.

The Petersburg native and Army veteran was a respected teacher for 23 years at Blackwell Elementary School in Richmond.

Then at age 47, he found his second calling. He was licensed to preach in 1984 and, a year later, was ordained and accepted the call to pastor Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Lawrenceville.

He led the church for 23 years before retiring at age 72.

The motto he lived by, according to his family: “If I can help somebody as I pass along, then my living will not be in vain.”

Rev. Clarke died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. He was 83. Family and friends offered final tributes to Rev. Clarke at a funeral service Friday, Feb. 28, at Brown Grove Baptist Church in Midlothian. Burial was in the Virginia Veterans Cemetery in Amelia County.

A graduate of Peabody High School in Petersburg, Rev. Clarke served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division after Rev. Clarke

being drafted.

Following his military service, he began teaching at Blackwell Elementary after completing his undergraduate degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he later earned his master’s in administration and supervision.

He also studied at the seminary at Virginia Union University as his interest turned to the ministry.

During his pastorate, he was involved with the Unified Shiloh Association and the Baptist Children’s Home of Virginia.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Zeldna T. Clarke; a son, Rodney A. Clarke; a sister, Julia C. Richardson; and a grandson.

Funeral service Saturday at Hampton University for NASA’s Katherine Johnson

A funeral service has been set for Katherine G. Johnson, the trailblazing mathematical genius whose calculations for NASA influenced every major space program from America’s first manned space flight in 1961 to the first lunar landing in 1969 to the early years of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s.

The service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Hampton University Convocation Center, 700 Emancipation Drive on the campus. A private burial will be held later. Mrs. Johnson, who was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” by actress Taraji P. Henson, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, at her residence at an assisted living facility in Newport News. She was 101. Mrs. Johnson

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Religion News Service When Howard Mallory first saw the Gospel of Matthew rendered in American Sign Language nearly 15 years ago, he said he was able to understand it more easily than when reading it in English.

“Seeing it in sign language, it was amazing,” said Mr. Mallory, 79, a deaf Jehovah’s Witness from Northfield, N.H. “Of course, we wanted more. Only one book was done.”

On Feb. 15, the last of the Bible’s 66 books — the story of Job — was released in video on the Jehovah’s Witnesses website, completing what Robert Hendriks, U.S. spokesman for the church, said is the only complete Bible in ASL.

Already, there have been 60 million downloads of the free videos — the signers are all men, dressed in jackets and ties — with the English translation below, since the Gospel of Matthew was released in 2006.

“We’re not aware of any other translation ever in history in sign language, in any sign language that is complete,” Mr. Hendriks said in an interview. “There are many who have begun the translation, some who feel they’ll finish it soon, some who are way off. But this is the first complete Bible with the 66 books.”

According to the website of United Bible Societies, other Bible societies have been working on a similar goal.

“We look forward to celebrating on October 1, 2020, the faithful, diligent work of those who have worked with Deaf Missions through the years to get all 66 books translated into ASL — the native, preferred and heart language of deaf people,” said Chad Entinger, chief executive officer of the Iowa-based Deaf Missions.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses ASL Bible brings the complete versions of the church’s 1950 New World Translation to 186.

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