Mass to Be Said Friday for Actor Stepin Fetchit
A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Friday for Lincoln Perry, the black actor known as Stepin Fetchit in films. After the Mass in St. Agatha’s Catholic Church at 5066 W. Adams Blvd., Perry will be buried at Calvary Cemetery.
His survivors include a son, Jemajo, and a sister, Marie Carter. Perry’s second wife, Bernice, died this year at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills where Perry died at age 83 Tuesday.
Contributions to the Motion Picture and Television Fund are asked in lieu of flowers.
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