December 2024 Necrology
"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."
In Sequential Order
Second Episcopal District Supervisor, Mrs. Christy Davis Jackson, Esq., wife of Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, Presiding Prelate of the Second Episcopal District, and Social Action Commission Chair; mother to Seth Joshua; stepmother to Regina Victoria; former Supervisor of the Sixth Episcopal District and a national figure in the fight for equity, civil rights, and equal rights |
The Reverend Dr. Geromy Johnson, Sr., Pastor of Evangelist Chapel AME, Houston, Texas, in the South Houston District of the Texas Conference; the husband of First Lady Nikala, father of two children, Geromy Jr. and Gia, and the nephew of Rev. Kevin Bullock, Pastor of Payne Chapel AME, Houston, Texas |
Minister Helen Gordon, the sister of Bro. Morris Mack and Sister-in-Law of Rev. Cecilia Ann Mack, Pastor in the Southwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District |
Mr. Eugene Stark, the husband of Rev. Bunnie Stark, a retired Itinerate elder in the Austin Capital District of the Southwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District |
Mr. Oscar ‘OT” Taylor, the husband of Rev. Sharian Brown-Taylor, pastor of St. Paul AME Church, Round Rock, Texas in the Austin Capital District of the Southwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District |
Mrs. Ethel P. Colvin, the mother of Reverend Alfonzo Colvin, Pastor of Ward Chapel AME Church in Montevallo, Alabama in the Alabama River Region Annual Conference in the Ninth Episcopal District |
The Reverend Mothusi Clouphurs Mekgoe, pastor of FH Gow AME Church in Bapong, Northwest Province, South Africa, MM Mokone Memorial Conference of the Nineteenth Episcopal District |
Little Kagoentle Oteng Mekgoe (5 months old), daughter of Mrs. Elisa Mekgoe and stepdaughter of The Reverend Mothusi Clouphurs Mekgoe, pastor of FH Gow AME Church in Bapong, Northwest Province, South Africa, MM Mokone Memorial Conference of the Nineteenth Episcopal District |
Mr. Joshua Jeremiah Canady, (1997-2024) son of The Reverend Torre Kindle, pastor of Ward Chapel AME Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, Twelfth Episcopal District |
Mr. Roger Nicolas, 102-year-old Father of Mr. Robert Nicolas, Executive Director, AME SADA (African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency ) |
Mrs. Ntebe Violet Thebe, age 89, the mother to Reverend Margaret Malebo Mahlako, pastor of Mount Zion AME Church in the Ga-Rankuwa District of the MM Mokone Memorial Annual Conference, Nineteenth Episcopal District |
The Reverend Alfreda Henderson, pastor of Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, Coolidge TX of the Paul Quinn District in the Northwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District |
The Reverend Marian Debro, transitioned on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, she was an Itinerant Elder of the Tennessee Conference who served as a Superannuated Associate Minister at Payne Chapel AME Church in Nashville, Tennessee, Thirteenth Episcopal District |
The Reverend Dr. Daniel W. Jacobs, Sr., Former President-Dean of Turner Theological Seminary |
Mrs. Constance Jean Golphin, a veteran of the United States Women’s Army Corp (WAC), the mother of six including The Reverend Kenneth J. Golphin, Presiding Elder of the Lexington District in the Kentucky Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Mrs. Annie Kay Tillery Gould, the mother of the Reverend Dr. Anita J. Gould, Pastor of Agape AME Church, Gaithersburg, Maryland in the Washington Conference of the Second Episcopal District |
Mr. Paul Dozier Mitchell, beloved brother of Bishop Michael Leon Mitchell, Presiding Bishop of the Sixth Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Church, and brother-in-love of Episcopal Supervisor Cordelia D. Mitchell |
The Reverend John Alston, Jr., 80, of Hollywood, SC, Seventh Episcopal District, beloved husband of Mrs. Josephine Simmons Alston and a veteran of the United States Air Force; entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 |
The Reverend Garry Lewis Fair, who served as an Itinerant Elder for more than 20 years in the West Tennessee Annual Conference of the Thirteenth Episcopal District |
On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop Reginal T. Jackson, Dr. Jacquelyn DuPont-Walker, Director/Consultant-Social Action Commission, we extend profound sympathy to all bereaved families. "We wish you the peace that comes from knowing God Is There and pray that He will keep you in His Promised, Gentle Care."
In Sympathy and Prayer,
Ora L. Easley, International Administrator