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Teddy Pendergrass Funeral

We were contacted by an agency to cover the funeral of Teddy Pendergrass in Philadephia on Saturday January 23. Pendergrass is best known as the singer of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and other hits. He died Jan. 13 at age 59 after a battle with colon cancer.


Teddy Pendergrass Funeral – Images by /DRP/ Delane Rouse Photography

A 200-member gospel choir jubilated with high-decibel exultation while a band and a sternum-vibrating organ roused the estimated 4,000 people who filled mammoth Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church on Cheltenham Avenue, the biggest African American church in Philadelphia.

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