Public invited to virtual memorial service to honor former Tacoma Mayor Harold Moss
The public is invited to attend a virtual memorial service for former Tacoma Mayor Harold Moss, who died at the age of 90 on Sept. 21.
The service will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, which would have marked his 91st birthday.
The memorial service will air on TV Tacoma and stream on tvtacoma.com and Facebook at facebook.com/cityoftacoma. TV Tacoma is available on the Click! (via Rainier Connect) and Comcast Cable systems.
Shortly after the memorial service, at about 3:30 p.m., Moss, along with his family motorcade, will take a final drive across the Harold G. Moss Bridge, according to a City of Tacoma news release. The city named the East 34th Street Bridge after Moss last year.
Flags across all city facilities will be lowered and remain at half-staff through the day on Thursday in honor of Moss..
Moss became Tacoma’s first Black City Council member in 1970, first Black mayor in 1994 and first Black Pierce County Council member in 1996.
“Mayor Moss will be remembered as an architect of the civil rights movement in the Pacific Northwest,” Tacoma Deputy Mayor Keith Blocker said in a statement last week. “In this current time of civil unrest and heightened calls for social justice, we as a community can begin to understand both the monumental weight and the deep necessity of Mayor Moss’s decades of dedicated work.”
Moss died at his Tacoma home from long-term health complications, according to his family.
