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Sample of black history program of church10/29/2023 ![]() Kirth Vance passed away Maand was buried at Washington Park North Cemetery. He served as an assistant pastor to his father at the Greater Tried Stone Baptist Church and continued as pastor into the 1990s after his fathers passing in 1986. In 1973, he became a member of Trinity Lodge No. Kirth Vance served in the United States Armed Forces from 1953 to 1956 and then as an Indianapolis police officer during the tumultuous 1960s. Although the result of the fight was not recorded on Kirth’s behalf, It is likely that Clay was the victor, as Clay had amassed a quick 19-0 record despite his professional debut coming in 1960, two years after Vance. At some point, according to a 1997 article in the Recorder, it is said that Kirth fought Muhammad Ali when he still went by the name Cassius Clay. ![]() As a young man, Kirth was an amateur boxer until his professional debut in 1958 and was often featured in the boxing section of the Indianapolis Recorder. Kirth would go on to succeed his father as pastor of the Greater Tried Stone Baptist Church, who was sick for a large portion of his time as pastor according to a piece written in the Indianapolis Recorder in 1978.īorn in 1932, he attended Crispus Attucks. Reverend Kirth Vance Crispus was the child of Reverend Richard William Vance and Geneva Ewing.
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