Vince Gillon, 1954 - 2008.

The Let’s Talk, Let’s Test Foundation and its affiliate members mourn the Loss of Vince Gillon, Executive Director of Carepoint Adult, Child and Family Association.

Rev. Anthony Hollins passed early Sunday morning, November 25, 2007 at Stroger Hospital, in Chicago.

Earnest Edward Hite Jr., 53, was born Aug. 24, 1954, in Urbana, the oldest child of Earnest, Sr. and Dorothy L. Patterson Hite.

Earnest attended the Champaign public schools and graduated from Centennial High School in 1972. He received an associate of arts degree from Parkland College and pursued additional studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago State University and National Louis University. He was a member of the Salem Baptist Church and was active in the Baptist Training Union and Youth Choir. He also sang in the St. Luke C.M.E. Church Youth Choir.

He worked for many years as an HIV/AIDS health educator and youth worker for community based groups in East Central Illinois, Metropolitan Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area. At the time of his passing, he was working as a prevention manager for Better Existence with HIV.