…knowing,” said Mitchell, who presided over Isles’ funeral. “He was a lover of music and a lover of God, and he combined both of those on stage in extraordinary fashion.”
Isles is not alone in our fight against cancer. About 202,260 new cancer cases and 73,030 cancer deaths are expected to occur among blacks in 2019. African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic group in the US for most cancers. Since 1990, however, the overall cancer death rate has dropped faster in blacks than whites among both men and women, largely driven by more rapid declines in blacks for cancers of the lung, colorectum, and prostate.
Isles is survived by his wife, Laural, seven children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.