Editor’s Note: This article by Laura Ziegler was first published on KCUR.com on March 19, 2021. It has been updated with service details.
Kansas City Civil Rights leader Alvin Sykes died Friday morning at Merriam Gardens Healthcare and Rehabilitation facility in Shawnee, Kansas, according to a nurse at the facility. Sykes had been suffering the acute affects of a fall at Union Station two years ago from which he never recovered. Sykes was 64.
Services for Alvin Sykes will be held Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 11 a.m. at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 2301 E. Linwood Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. Visitation is from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m
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