Herbert Chatt

Herbert Chatt was 74 years old when he died on July 24, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a Black man, and the simple facts of his identity and age only hint at the full weight of what his absence would have meant to the people who loved him and the community that knew him.

New Orleans is a city where names are carried in voices, where stories get repeated at kitchen tables and on porches, where grief is not only felt but shared. In that kind of place, a death is never just an entry ...

Herbert Chatman Obituary (2016) - Gretna