Necrology, November 2023

 "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 -

First Lady Pamela Evette Williams Thompson, the wife of The Reverend Chico Thompson, Pastor of Dulaney AME and Pine Level AME Churches, both in the Camden District of the Southwest Alabama Annual Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District 

Sister Lois Patricia Durham Bauknight (88), the mother of Reverend Terrilisa Durham Bauknight, the pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church, Boonton, New Jersey of the New Jersey Conference of the First Episcopal District

The Reverend Nelson Dan Taylor, Sr., Esquire, Retired Itinerant Elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Activist, Attorney, of the Eighth Episcopal District

Sister Jeanetta Francis Dean, the wife of Earnest Dean, mother of Aowonno and Lavar, the sister of Reverend Recie Medlock, pastor of St. James AME Church, Mansfield, La., Stanford & Chevelos Medlock, and Niece of Reverend Woodrow Williams, (retired AME Church), Eighth Episcopal District  

Brother Mack Albert Evans, father of Rev. Mashod Evans, Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Ann Arbor, MI and father-in-love of Leslie Evans, Michigan Annual Conference WMS, Fourth Episcopal District

 The Reverend Sandra Moore Stanley, Baltimore Conference, Second Episcopal District

Mrs. Lorene Moss Turman, the mother of Reverend Clifford Jackson, Pastor of Bethel (Anderson) African Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenville District, Piedmont Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church

Bro. William "Ronnie" Mathis, father of The Rev. Troy K. Venning, Pastor of Quinn Chapel AME Church-Chicago, Fourth Episcopal District

The Reverend Addie Lou Deviner, (Retired) age 93, a member of the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District 

Mrs. Annette Gatson, the wife of former Presiding Elder Alexander Gatson (retired) 13th District (Tennessee Annual Conference, North District) and the mother of Dr. Alexis Gatson Heaston (Tennessee Conference Christian Education Chair   and Tennessee Conference Lay Organization Director of Public Relations)

Mr. Clinton Hill, Jr., father of First Lady Kimberly Hobson-Gary, and Father-in-Love of The Rev. Dwayne Gary, pastor of Woodlawn AME Church-Chicago, Fourth Episcopal District

Ms. Inez Lindsey, the dear mother of Presiding Elder, Rev. Roosevelt Lindsey, Jr., Southern California Conference, Fifth Episcopal District

Sister Sharon Kaye Billups-Portis, the sister of First Lady LaSharn Faush and sister in love of The Reverend Anre’ Faush, the Pastor of Allen Temple AME Church – Bessemer in the South Birmingham Huntsville Bessemer District of the Ninth Episcopal District of the AME Church

Bro. Nelson Gilmer Rankin, Jr., the brother of Mr. Bobby Rankin, Chief of Protocol for the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Mr. James V. Pierce, uncle of Rev. Garland F. Pierce, Executive Director of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Department of Christian Education

Brother George Riley, Jr., the husband of The Reverend Gloria Riley, Pastor of Tennille Chapel AME Church in Eufaula, Alabama in the Dothan-Eufaula District of the Ninth Episcopal District of the AME Church 

Mr. Keith Nelson, Sr., the brother of Presiding Elder Gregory P. Nelson, Presiding Elder of the Atlantic City District, of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Ms. Valerie J. Sydnor, the sister of retired General Officer and retired 20th Editor of The Christian Recorder, Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor III

Sister Betty Jean Wright Johnson, the wife of Reverend Dr. Alvan Johnson, superannuated Itinerant Elder in the New England Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

 

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On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield, 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