Prattville Mortuary

Montgomery.  The Homegoing Celebration will be at 11 a.m. Friday at True Divine Baptist Church, 4601 Troy Highway. Visitation will be from 2-7 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church, 2818 Third St.  The Rev. Willie Welch will officiate the services with Lewis Robusky Mortuary, of Prattville, handling the funeral service arrangements. Expressions can be sent to the Mortuary, 307 County Road 4, Prattville, AL, 36067. Calhoun owned Calhoun Foods, which operated in west Montgomery for more than 20 years, starting in 1984. At one point he owned 15 locations. He also founded Calhoun Enterprises and was involved in several other business ventures. Montgomery’s last Calhoun Foods closed in 2015. “I kind of regret it, being the only one African-American in the grocery business in the city of Montgomery, but business is business and you have to do what you have to do,” Calhoun said at the time. ShaKenya Calhoun posted on Facebook that her father died Thursday at 5:55 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “Words can’t express the shock and hurt we are enduring at this moment but we KNOW God does not make any mistakes!!” she wrote. She asked for prayers for the family. In recent years he partnered with comedian Steve Harvey on several ventures, including festivities surrounding the Turkey Day Classic in 2016. The duo’s investment group purchased a Eufaula latex glove plant in 2015. Harvey wrote on Facebook that he was with Calhoun "to the end." ...