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The death is announced of Mr. Willis D. Knuckles, former Minister of Public Works and former Minister of Presidential Affairs, Republic of Liberia. He died in Accra, Ghana this morning, following a brief illness. He held both positions during the administration of Liberia's current President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Mr. Knuckles was widely known for his extraordinary organizing skills, which he put to great use during the two presidential campaigns of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in 2005 and 2011. These political initiatives led her to victory on both occasions.
A staunch, lifelong Methodist, Mr. Knuckles also organized fund raising drives for the rebuilding of the Seys United Methodist Church of Careysburg, Montserrado County, first in the mid-2000s from devastation during the...