Necrology, August 2024

    "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed,

we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

      (Listed in sequential order)           

Mrs. Yolanda Denson, the wife of Rev. Herbert Denson, serving on both the Greater Dallas District and the Tyler District and the mother of Rev. Torrey Denson who serves on the Tyler District in the North Texas Conference

Mr. Raleigh J. Blake, 91, the father of Bonnie Blake Anderson and the father-in-law of the Reverend Grandville Anderson, Pastor of Greater St. Paul AME Church, Florence, Alabama in the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District 

The Reverend Dr. Daniela Small-Bailey and her son, Brother Sidanii Bell, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Passaic, of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District

Sister Rosa Frances Browning, the wife of the late Reverend Willie Browning, she served as Consultant of the Philadelphia District under the leadership of Presiding Elder Jocelyn Hart Lovelace, served as Philadelphia Conference Branch WMS President, and was a Life Member of the Women’s Missionary Society

Mrs. Gail Louise Gillespie, the mother of Kinette K. Cager, CONN-M-SWAWO Financial Secretary, and the mother-in-law of Presiding Elder John E. Cager, Midwest North District, Midwest Annual Conference, Fifth Episcopal District  

“MaDear” Roxey Anna Walton Booker, the mother of Reverend Dr Spencer Booke, Pastor of St Paul AME Church, St. Louis of the Missouri Conference, Fifth Episcopal District

Mother Bertha Mae Griswold James, the beloved mother of Rev. Dr. Cassondra L. Gordon, Pastor of St. Paul AME Church of the Quincy-Monticello District, Eleventh Episcopal District, and beloved mother-in-love of Elder Bobby Gordon

Sister Violivette Knight the sister of Reverend Jerome McCray, Pastor of Unionville (Sumter) African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Sumter District, Northeast Annual of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church

Brother William H. McCray, the brother of Reverend Jerome McCray, Pastor of Unionville (Sumter) African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Sumter District, Northeast Annual of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church

The Reverend Dr. Charles Maceo Holsey, Jr, the Pastor of Oak Grove AME Church in Florence, Alabama in the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District 

The Reverend Dr. Walter B. Johnson Jr., who previously served as the Senior Pastor of the historic Greater Institutional African Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago in the Fourth Episcopal District

Mr. Rodney Moody, the father of The Rev. Rodney R. Moody (Kim), Senior Pastor of The Ebenezer AME Church, Kansas City, MO, Fifth Episcopal District

Bro. Charles Hill, the husband of the Reverend Vonciel Jones Hill, Esq., pastor at Mt. Zion AME Church, Italy, TX, Paul Quinn District of the Northwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

Dr. Joseph Turner, the beloved husband of Mrs. Mabel Turner of 49 years, the son of Rev. Thomas and Mother Helen Turner, a member of Wilberforce University Board of Trustees, and Payne Theological Board of Trustees

Mrs. Virginia Ann Giles Charles, the sister of Presiding Elder James Giles and Consultant Monica Swan-Giles), a resident of Gurdon Arkansas, Twelfth Episcopal District

The Reverend Louis Swafford, brother of Reverend Nettie Ranel, pastor of Mary Springhill AME Church, Shreveport, Louisiana and pastor of Old Morning Star Baptist Church, Colfax, LA, Eighth Episcopal District

The Reverend Willie Lee Benson, Sr., retired pastor in the Eighth Episcopal District and father of Reverend Velvet Benson-Early, Eighth Episcopal District

The Reverend Robert L. Goode Sr., a retired pastor in the North Carolina Conference of the 2nd Episcopal District, his ministry tenure was in the Virginia, Western North Carolina, and North Carolina Conferences, and he was the the spouse of Mrs. Vera Martin Goode

 

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On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, Dr. Jacquelyn DuPont-Walker, Director/Consultant-Social Action Commission, we extend profound sympathy to all bereaved families. "We wish the families the peace that comes from knowing God Is There, and pray that He will keep them in His Promised, Gentle Care."

 

In Sympathy and Prayer,

Ora L. Easley, International Administrator