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Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 Chris Morris, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977,  died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76. Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year. ...

Mary Wilson, original member of groundbreaking Motown group the Supremes – obituary With Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, she rose from poverty in Detroit to become a member of the most famous girl group in the world Mary Wilson, circa 1966 Credit: Dezo Hoffman/Shutterstock Mary Wilson, who has died aged 76, was one of the original members of the Supremes, widely acclaimed as the ultimate Motown girl group and the only one to compete with the Beatles in the American charts. With the two other founders, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson – in many ways the most gracious of the t...