- June 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Joseph Earl Breedlove Sr., an African American entrepreneur and construction company vice president, died June 7 at the age of 80 in Dallas.
Mr. Breedlove attended I.M. Terrell when it was a segregated high school in the late 1950s. One of his proudest moments was when his company received the contract from Fort Worth ISD to help renovate the school and build the 900-seat performance hall adjacent to it, as it was being made ready to house the STEM and VPA Academies.
Appropriately, funeral services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, June 19, at I. M. Terrell Academy for STEM and Visual & Performing Arts, 1900 I.M. Terrell Way.
He born in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 10, 1940, to the late Earl Lou Breedlove, his mother, along with “Babysister,” Devora Lue (Breedlove) Grays who rests in peace.
Mr. Breedlove attended G. W. Carver Elementary and graduated in 1959 from Fort Worth’s historic first black high school, I.M. Terrell, where he…
