Dolores Monica Mendocino Feemster
1929-2018

SPARKS, NEVADA (25 May 2018) — Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch and former president Dolores Feemster passed away in the 5:00 a.m. hour on Friday, May 25, 2018, at Northern Nevada Medical Center in Sparks, Nevada. She was 89. The U.S. civil rights community and all Nevada mourn. She was born in a house on Morrill Avenue in Reno on May 24, 1929. She celebrated her 89th birthday with her family yesterday. Memorial services are set for June 9. With Elder Bill Moon and Eddie Scott, the Reno-Sparks Branch has lost three former presidents in the past year. We carry forward in their honor.

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Reach out your hand If your cup is empty    If your cup is full may it be again    Let it be known There is a fountain    That was not made By the hands of men — Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

Official Feemster Family Obituary
Reno Gazette-Journal 6-6-2018

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Darryl K. Feemster, Sr., 1962-2017

THE LAST HURRAH WITH MOTHER DOLORES ON MOTHERS' DAY (5-13-2018) — Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch Dolores Feemster at a Mothers' Day visit from family and friends. Left to right, front row: Grand-daughter Erica Young (who gave grandma a sparkling manicure); Dolores' daughter Cheryl Feemster and the guest of honor herself. Back row: Branch Second Vice-President Donald Gallimore, Sr.; Branch President Patricia Gallimore; Gallimore grand-daughters Kira and Diora; Executive Committee Member and Branch Legal Redress Committee Chair Victor Wowo; First Vice-President and Political Action Committee Chair Andrew Barbano; Past-President, Education Chair and son Lonnie L. Feemster, Jr.; future president Shannon Gallimore. [Photo: Carolyn Feemster Page, daughter]

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