Herman Pride, a 66-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, died in January 2008; his obituary names January 21 as the date of passing, though January 23 has also been associated with his death. He was a retired United States Army veteran and is remembered by surviving family including his son Lovell Pride and daughter-in-law Toyia Pride, sisters Gwendolyn Matthews and Verna Davis and their husbands, brother Alford Pride, and granddaughter Jazzmin Pride.

A graveside service was scheduled for January 31, 2008, at Elmwood Cemetery with arrangements by Scott-McPherson Funeral Home and the Reverend Larry Coleman officiating. The obituary and available notices do not state a cause or manner of death, and no contemporaneous public report of an investigation, suspect, arrest, or charge has been verified.

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