{"id":3509,"date":"2015-10-13T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:37:26","slug":"longtime-ramsay-high-school-choir-director-myrna-ria-ross-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/longtime-ramsay-high-school-choir-director-myrna-ria-ross-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Ramsay High School choir director, Myrna Ria Ross passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds0--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12122680_10153326159717669_3526204136307949573_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3511\" alt=\"Myrna Ross\" src=\"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12122680_10153326159717669_3526204136307949573_n.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12122680_10153326159717669_3526204136307949573_n.jpg 668w, https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/staging\/9111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12122680_10153326159717669_3526204136307949573_n-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From WBRC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current and former Ramsay High School students are mourning the loss of the school\u2019s longtime choir director.<\/p>\n<p>Myrna Ria Ross, a teacher at the school for over two decades, died over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Her cause of death is unknown at this time.<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p>Ross taught at the school for 22\u00a0years and under her leadership the choir received superior ratings at Birmingham\u2019s All-City Choral Music Performance and Singing Evaluations for 22 years straight.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the choir performed with a mass choir in Selma for the 50-year \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d commemoration.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, along with UAB\u2019s Dr. Henry Panion III, worked with the choir to perform and record an adapted version of the civil rights movement staple, \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d called \u201cWe Can Overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0--><p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/story\/30240715\/long-time-ramsay-high-school-choir-director-passes-away\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WBRC Current and former Ramsay High School students are mourning the loss of the school\u2019s longtime choir director. Myrna Ria Ross, a teacher at the school for over two decades, died over the weekend. Her cause of death is unknown at this time. Ross taught at the school for 22\u00a0years and under her leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[738,731],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-myrna-ria-ross","tag-ramsay-high-school-choir"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Longtime Ramsay High School choir director, Myrna Ria Ross passes away - MyBirminghamGOSPEL.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mybirminghamgospel.com\/longtime-ramsay-high-school-choir-director-myrna-ria-ross-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Longtime Ramsay High School choir director, Myrna Ria Ross passes away - MyBirminghamGOSPEL.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From WBRC Current and former Ramsay High School students are mourning the loss of the school\u2019s longtime choir director. 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