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Honoring Robert R. Oliver III (Prince Royale)'s Legacy

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PRINCE WAS IMMACULATE
( A Celebration of the Life of Robert R. Oliver III)

Sunrise: December 23rd, 1955
Sunset: August 15th, 2024

• New York Arrangements | Crowe's Funeral Home
( 107-44 Sutphin Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11435 )

• New York Cremation | All Soul's Crematory
---> Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 @ 9AM
( 72-02 Astoria Blvd S, East Elmhurst, NY 11370 )

• New York Memorial | New Covenant Church of Christ
---> Saturday, September 28th, 2024 @ 1PM
( 206-14 100th Ave, Queens Village, NY 11429 )

• South Carolina Funeral | Smyrna Baptist Church
( 541 Warbonnet Rd, Springfield, SC 29146 )

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Any and all donations collected will be used for the following...

Dad's Funeral Expenses & Proceedings ($5000 respectively & transparently).

Legal Probate & Real Estate Fees ($5000 respectively & transparently).

Dining (To ensure all respective members of immediate family, extended family, close friends, performers, AND acquaintances — or even kind souls who encountered and were blessed by Dad's presence most recently — may be able to celebrate his life and nourish themselves in his presence hopefully for FREE, comfortably.)

Lodging (To ensure all respective members of immediate family, extended family, close friends, performers, AND acquaintances — or even kind souls who encountered Dad and were blessed by his presence most recently — can book living space hopefully for FREE if arriving from out of town.

Transportation (To ensure all respective members of immediate family, extended family, close friends, performers, AND acquaintances — or even kind souls who encountered Dad and were blessed by his presence most recently — can travel to any and all memorials, wakes, initial viewings, the funeral, burial & even our homes/estates here in New York & South Carolina hopefully FREE, with no worries of how to reach out and love or support Dad or our family the way THEY may wish.)

We thank you in advance for your kindness and support — and if you cannot donate, we thank you for your consideration and prayers just as well. We love you and HE loved you — nothing in the world will ever be able to circumvent that.

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Rodney (or "Prince" as some of you may have known him; or perhaps even further — "Pops," to those closest to him), was one of the most wisest, inspiring, passionate, and studiously stoic souls to touch this Earth. If you got the chance to know him, much doesn't need to be shared but a kiss and hug. If you never happened to be graced by his empowering presence though — review the following interview. This was him to the T...

Robert Rodney Oliver III (son of Robert Oliver, Jr. and Martha Ellison Oliver — born in Detroit, Michigan) was an artist, entertainment personality, producer, and entrepreneur of recorded music and motion pictures. Also known by the moniker "Prince Royale," he established the multimedia conglomerate Kingdom Industries, LTD. Entertainment, Arts & Sciences in 1983 as his official thrust into the world's creative industries. Prince's essence has been known and continues to thrive through the innumerable creatives he spiritually and artistically mentored throughout his personal and professional paths. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Prince was known best for balancing the careers of becoming a radio personality (Announcer Training Studios), a songwriter (with Elektra Records & Budsky Music), a record producer (at Daily Planet / Planet Sound Studios), motion picture agent and manager (with The Writers Guild of America), as well as a road and musical assistant to Patti Labelle and his late cousin James "Budd" Ellison. In 1991, Prince established a new visionary venture called M. StageScene Communications (MSSC) for theatre, music, fashion & film with the love of his life, Susan Dulce Garcia. MSSC carries on Prince's legacy as a vessel for the youth and all creatives, with a determination to craft a safer, brighter, more equitable environment and future for imaginative individuals to have an unprecedented and strengthened livelihood from their creativity. Prince is survived by he and Susan's only son, Amir "Royale" Oliver, an artist, educator, and entrepreneur in his own right.

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Dear Prince,
"You did the impossible.
68 Rotations. 25 years of parenthood.
Uncountable seeds of wisdom.
The growth of fruits in an endless heavenly garden you always foreseen.
A fierce defender of his God and family.
An influencer of spirit thought, word affluence and mental abundance."
Thanking you will forever be a mountainous task.

~ via. Amir Royale & Kiyana Myrthil

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• "The Prince From Up Above."
• "The Poet of Every Prophecy."
• "Our Auteur."
• "Our Oracle."
• "Our Artist With Words As His Shield"
• "Our Denzel."
• "Our Mentor."
• "Our Father."
• "Our Life."
• "Our Love."
• "Our Soul."

"Rest well and forever in God's eternal grace."

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"Walk good, take care familia.
We love you until the sun don't shine.
Then even after that."

❤️❤️

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THOUGHTS FROM RODNEY'S SON:

"I can't really say I've been doing well lately...

I don't know though — I can't really say I've been doing terribly awful either. At the very least regardless, I wanted to try and thank each and every one of you for the kind words. This is still extremely hard for me.

I'm not very good at asking for help — but I sincerely do and genuinely need much, much more of it this time way more than any of my last few times through losing my mother or grandparents.

Not having Pops here is a financial scare, a legal mountain, and a grandios load of grief that I'm still not entirely comfortable sifting through right now, but I've been encouraged to voice what I can when I'm willing or able. So I'm trying.

Thank you again to the people who have been able to speak up for me when I can't about all this."

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" That's why I do the things I do—

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People Say [Promotional Snippet #2]


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    • $40
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    • $100
    • 6 d
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    • $20
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Fundraising team: Kingdom Industries LTD. (2)

Amir Royale
Organizer
New York, NY
Kiyana Myrthil
Team member

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