November 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."
(Listed in sequential order)
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Judge Warren Hope Dawson, Judicial Council Member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 2016-2024 |
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Mrs. Kay Francis Cooper, sunrise August 1, 1934 – sunset November 5, 2024, the mother of Presiding Elder Karla Cooper of the Midwest Conference of the Fifth Episcopal District |
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The Reverend Dr. Perry Brewster, the brother of Presiding Elder Angela Brewster of the Monticello-Warren District, East Arkansas Annual Conference, 12th Episcopal District |
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Mr. David T. Roberts husband of Reverend Roslyn Roberts, Itinerant Elder at Hemingway Memorial AME Church, District Heights - Maryland, Washington Conference of the Second Episcopal District |
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The Reverend Glenn Smiley, Sr. (January 22, 1961 – October 31, 2024), pastor of Saddler’s Chapel AME Church, Bessemer in the South Birmingham-Huntsville-Bessemer District of the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference in the Ninth Episcopal District |
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The Reverend Chestine Sims, Jr., the recent pastor of St. John A.M.E. Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and the spouse of Sister Debra Sims, an East Arkansas Conference M-SWAWO+PKs officer, Twelfth Episcopal District |
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Mrs. Mattie G. Dixon, affectionately known as Gwen, the mother of the Reverend Dr. Yvette Tisdale, Itinerant Elder of the Tennessee Conference, Allen Dixon and Gerald Dixon; she was a Life Member of the Women’s Missionary Society and a member of Lee Chapel AME Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Thirteenth Episcopal District |
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Mrs. Gladys Henderson Hunter, the mother of Presiding Elder Bruce W. Hunter, Presiding Elder of the South Birmingham-Huntsville-Bessemer District of the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference – Ninth Episcopal District |
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Mr. Cori Swafford, the oldest son of Presiding Elder Raymond B. Swafford, Presiding Elder of the Tuskegee District of the Northeast Alabama Annual Conference, and he is the father of Ms. Khia Swafford, a past President of the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference Young People’s and Children’s Division of the Women’s Missionary Society – both in the Ninth Episcopal District |
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Dr. Bettye J. Allen, 102, former connectional WMS Officer was a beacon of inspiration and leadership, connectionally she served as the first chair of Research and Status of Black Women, PME Director and Editor of the Missionary Magazine; she was a life member of the WMS and a prolific writer and had served diligently in the Fourth Episcopal District |
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On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson and 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."
God Bless,
Ora L. Easley, International Administrator
