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New Orleans Saying Goodbye To Lionel Ferbos

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New Orleans will be saying goodbye Friday and Saturday to jazz trumpeter Lionel Ferbos. 

The 103-year-old musical legend died July 19 at his New Orleans home.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday night at the Charbonnet Labat Funeral Home. Music and tributes will follow until 9 p.m..

Visitation will be held Saturday morning from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Corpus Christy Epiphany Catholic Church. At 9 a.m., a memorial program begins. Music and spoken-word tributes will be featured.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond will preside at the funeral Mass.

A second-line procession with the Tremé Brass Band and the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club will leave from the church after Mass to the Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Eileen is a news reporter and producer for WWNO. She researches, reports and produces the local daily news items. Eileen relocated to New Orleans in 2008 after working as a writer and producer with the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. for seven years.

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