Rapper CeeLo Green posts moving tribute to Jocelyn Wilson, saying teacher found dead during lake trip was like a sister to him
Rapper CeeLo Green made a heartfelt tribute to Georgia teacher Jocelyn Wilson — who died with her fiance while celebrating his 50th birthday on a lake — while revealing that she was a childhood friend who was like a sister to him“Yall, this is Joy Wilson! Practically one of three additional sisters I have,” the “Crazy” singer wrote of Wilson, who was found dead on Feb.9, a month before her fiancé Gary Jones’ body was recovered Sunday.“Her oldest sister Bunkie was childhood friends with my aunt Trekie! We all grew up together and attended elementary school together,” Green, 49, posted to Instagram last week.
“No one deserves to perish in that fashion,” Green wrote of his friend.“It is more than tragic.It’s horrific, and I know personally that she did not deserve this,” Green said.Wilson and Jone disappeared while on a fishing boat on Lake Oconee celebrating Jones turning 50, officials have said.
The boat was found empty and running in circles with a cookie with icing still onboard hours after they were last seen.Wilson, a Spelman College instructor, was found floating in the river the following day because she still had air in her lungs when she died and was still clutching her cell phone.Jones’ body was located by authorities exactly a month later on Sunday afternoon.He was found in 45 feet of water among timber in the lake, near where his bride-to-be was found a day after the two went missing.Authorities do not suspect foul play and will conduct autopsies on Jones and Wilson, the outlet reported.Wilson was a math instructor at Spelman College in Atlanta, “where she made an indelible impact on both her students and colleagues,” the college said in a statement to Atlanta News First.Jones joined the staff of Westminster Schools as a middle school science teacher in 2002 and was an eighth-grade basketball coach and the head of the track and field program during his time there, Atlanta News First reported.Wilson and Jones first met...