Ethel Williamson

Ethel Williamson, 56, a Black woman, died on May 25, 2013, in Detroit, Michigan, leaving behind a sudden silence that family and friends were left to fill with memories, prayers, and the hard work of grieving. Born on January 27, 1957, she had lived through decades of a city’s changes—its bright summers, its brutal winters, its everyday resilience—and then, on that late-May date, her story reached its endpoint far too soon.

In the days that followed, a memorial page was created thr ...