Funeral services were held Sept. 13 at Mt. Pisgah AME Church, Jersey City, for Shirley Ann Bland Hobbs. She passed away on Sept. 7. She was the wife of the late Martin R. Hobbs Sr.; the mother of Martin R. Hobbs Jr. and the late Stephen Hobbs; the stepmother of Preston Jones; the stepmother-in-law of Patricia Jones; the grandmother of Courtney Jones; the sister of Dr. Edith Bland Phillips, Alice Logan, and Gwendolyn B. Carroll; the sister-in-law of Oscar Phillips, Dana Carroll, Shirley Hobbs-Reid, Earl Dine Marshall, Edward Hobbs, and Georgia W. Hobbs; and a friend to many more. Services arranged by The Family Funeral Home, LLC of Newark.