ppgaming Rodessa Barrett Porter, Member of a Storied Gospel Trio, Dies at 94

Rodessa Barrett Porterppgaming, the last living member of the Barrett Sisters, a Chicago gospel trio renowned worldwide for their exuberant operatic sound and thrilling harmonies, died on Dec. 16 in Harvey, Ill. She was 94.

Her grandson Jonathan Scrutchens said her death, in a hospital, was from complications following a stroke.

Mr. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is scheduled to appear in Hershey, Pa., as the special guest of the “Tucker Carlson Live” show, just weeks after Mr. Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, praised and aired the views of Darryl Cooper, who falsely claimed that the Holocaust was not an intentional act of genocide.

The Barrett Sisters were an electrifying international act, anchored by Delois Barrett Campbell’s extraordinary range. She sang most of the leads, but Ms. Porter, the youngest, and Billie Barrett GreenBey, the middle sister, were potent soloists, too.

The three of them had grown up listening to the Andrews Sisters on the radio and modeled themselves after them. There is nothing, they often said, quite like sisters harmonizing.

If the mission of gospel music is evangelism, the Barrett Sisters surely must have been responsible for more than a few converts. Their smiles were beatific. They were known locally to many as the Sweet Sisters of Zion.

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