RIPON, Calif.—Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his home in ...
“Everybody has sung something written by Bishop Hawkins,” Bishop Wyatt I. Greenlee said about gospel icon Walter Hawkins, who passed away on Sunday. “Even if they didn’t know it was him.” Hawkins, ...