Anthony M. Boston

Anthony Michael Boston, son of the late Jane Louise and Joseph Boston, was born on May 6, 1966. Anthony began his education in the New Jersey Public School System and finished in the Baltimore City Public School System, where he graduated from Harbor City Learning Center.Anthony, a former WERQ-FM disc jockey whose irreverent portrayal of “Miss Tony” and later “Big Tony” became a fixture in Baltimore nightclubs for more than a decade, passed away April 11, 2003. He was 36 and a longtime Woodlawn resident.Mr. Boston – who abandoned the role late in his life and worked to help the needy – was born in Baltimore, raised in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and a 1985 Harbor City Learning Center graduate.Mr. Boston was working as a security guard for the city housing authority and as a master of ceremony for parties when Frank Ski, a personality at the station known as 92Q, heard him sing at the Shake and Bake Family Fun Center on Pennsylvania Avenue. “Big Tony” was hired as an entertainment reporter for WERQ in 1994 and later became half of the station’s morning team-first with Randy Dennis, and later along side Frank Ski. By night “Big Tony was the a glitzy nightclub personality and by day, a raspy-voiced early-morning disc jockey for Baltimore’s most listened-to radio station. Despite all of the celebrity and fame, Mr. Boston chose to shed his persona after 12 years. In 1998, he walked into Victory Center, a nondenominational Northeast Baltimore church. He was carrying several bags of shoes and cloths that he had worn as “Miss Tony”. It would have been five years this Easter that he stopped living as “Miss Tony” and became Anthony Boston again.Until his death, Mr. Boston worked in the church’s outreach ministry assisting the needy. The life he lived the last five years cannot compare with the previous 31. They were the most peaceful and rewarding of his life.Mr. Boston is survived by his brothers, Jermaine Boston, Phillip Boston of California, Reginald Little and Kevin Boston; sisters, Sheryl Boston, Roslyn Boston and Sharana Boston; five aunts, three uncles, sixteen nieces and nephews and a host of other relatives and loving friends. The race is not given to the swift, neither to the strong, but to those that endure until the end. Your race has been run and now you stand “VICTORIOUS.”Your Brother, Jermaine

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Anthony M. Boston

May 6, 1966 - April 11, 2003