Education Benefits. Tuition-Free class per semester. Wake Tech encourages its full-time employees to take advantage of several opportunities to pursue educational opportunities. All full-time employees are eligible to take a curriculum or non-credit class tuition-free each semester.
Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 and received a Rastafarian funeral service at the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Jamaica on May 21st. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum in his birthplace of Nine Miles. Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981 in Miami. His body was flown back to Jamaica to be buried and, in one day, 40,000 people filed past his coffin as his body lay in state in Jamaicaâs National Arena.
While jogging, Bob collapsed and in the examination, it was found that the cancer had spread to his brain, liver, and lungs. He was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in February of 1981. He went to Germany to see a cancer specialist, and on his way to Jamaica, he stopped in Miami to receive emergency medical care. He died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital on May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. Bob Marley has been called a visionary, a Third World superstar, and a revolutionary artist. He was all this and more, and brought Jamaican music to the world.