OAKLAND — More than 2,000 people lined the streets around the Paramount Theatre Friday morning for free tickets to a musical tribute and a funeral for Grammy Award-winning artist Walter Hawkins. Many ...
Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his home in Ripon, Calif., ...
Walter Eugene “Gene” Hawkins aka “Daddy Gene” W.E. Gene Hawkins was born in Atlanta Georgia on Christmas Day in 1923. He was the sixth child of his parents, Harwell Parks Hawkins and Nora Lula Johnson ...