Charles Walter Hawkins, a wonderful, warm man, loved by many, passed away at his home in Santa Cruz on Monday, August 2nd, 2010, at the age of 71. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee capital of ...

“Everybody has sung something written by Bishop Hawkins,” Bishop Wyatt I. Greenlee said about gospel icon Walter Hawkins, who passed away on Sunday. “Even if they didn’t know it was him.” Hawkins, ...

Walter Hawkins died at his home in Ripon over the weekend ... after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Hawkins was a pastor, but was best known as part of "The Edwin Hawkins Singers" ... a gospel ...