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Brainerd Community Center renamed to honor late health advocate Chris Ramsey

Staff photo by Olivia Ross  / Members of Kappa Alpha Psi and friends of Chris Ramsey pose with the new sign. A ceremony held on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, honored the late Chris Ramsey Sr. by naming the Brainerd Community Center in his honor. The center will now be called Chris L. Ramsey Sr. Community Center.
Staff photo by Olivia Ross / Members of Kappa Alpha Psi and friends of Chris Ramsey pose with the new sign. A ceremony held on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, honored the late Chris Ramsey Sr. by naming the Brainerd Community Center in his honor. The center will now be called Chris L. Ramsey Sr. Community Center.


Brainerd Community Center has been renamed to honor the life and legacy of Chattanooga health advocate Chris Ramsey Sr., who died of complications from COVID-19 in January 2021. He was 54.

The center will now be known as the Chris L. Ramsey Sr. Community Center.

City officials, community members and Ramsey’s loved ones — a crowd of nearly 200 individuals — gathered outside the center Tuesday morning for the renaming ceremony.

Lucrecia Ramsey, the widow of Chris Ramsey, unveiled the building’s new sign before making a short speech.