Necrology, July 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)

 

Sister Willodene Long James, the daughter of Reverend Clarence Hunter, Pastor of Lodabar (New Zion) African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sumter District, Northeast Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District

Brother Ronald Myron Cummings, the brother of Reverend Patricia Vanderhurst, Pastor of New Mt. Zion (Summerville) African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston District, South Carolina Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District

Rev. Jacob Motshwara Maleho was married to Mrs Ouma Maleho and was an Itinerant Elder in the Khunwana District, West Conference of the Nineteenth Episcopal District

Ms. Jimmie Lee Hutson, the mother of Reverend Kelvin Hutson, and grandmother of Rev. LaToya Johnson, members of St. Paul AME Church, North Houston District, Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

Mrs. Juanita Turner, the mother of Fourth Episcopal District Lay President and Former YPD AND RAYAC Connectional President, Mr. Jerry Turner, Jr

The Reverend Dr. Mary Ann Ardis Glisson, the spouse of Brother Leroy Glisson and, an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, pastor of St. James (Columbia) AME Church in the Newberry District, Columbia Conference  Seventh Episcopal District Columbia Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District

Chaplain Percy Spencer, age 75, a Local Elder, served as the supply pastor at Craig Chapel AME Church in Salvisa, Kentucky, and on the staff of St. Peter AME Church, Harrodsburg, Kentucky in the Thirteenth Episcopal District where his wife Rev. Louise Spencer is the pastor

Former Episcopal Supervisor Lola Nixon Cheltenham, who served under the leadership of Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry the 122nd elected and consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the 16th from 2007-2008 and in the 8th from 2008 to 2012

Mr. Luther McClellan, the father of Reverand Laverne McClellan Trent, pastor of St. James African Methodist Church, Ocean City, New Jersey Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District.

Mrs. Dorothy Mae Owens- Smith, the mother of Rev. Dr. Rosalynn Kyle Smith- Brookins, former Episcopal Supervisor and widow of the late Bishop Hamel Hartford Brookins

The Reverend Gert Johanannes Kooper, age 60, an Itinerant Elder for 12 years in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, married and of father 10 children:  Amolyn; served in the Namibia Annual Conference as pastor and as a member of the Board of Examiners the Namibia Conference

Sister Vicki Brown Parker, the sister of Reverend Dr. Ralph L. Brown, Jr., pastor of Mt. Olive (Sumter) African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Sumter District, Northeast Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District

Sister Thelma Louise Devereaux, the mother-in-law of Reverend Lesly Devereaux, pastor of Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church, Long Branch, New Jersey Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District

Sister Deborah L. Whitley, sister of Reverend Gayle Williams, pastor of Graham African Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware Annual Conference, in the First Episcopal District

The Reverend Thomas Mitchell Hughes, retired Presiding Elder of the Fourth Episcopal District

The Reverend Kevin Joseph Washington, pastor of New Bethel AME Church, Springhill, LA-Shreveport-Monroe District, Central North Louisiana Conference, Eighth Episcopal District

The Reverend Clifton Joseph Gay, III, served as a chaplain at Beale AFB, California; Kunsan AB, South Korea; Luke AFB, Arizona; Sembach AB. West Germany and his last place to serve at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska; married to Mrs. Gail Flynn Gay, and blessed with four beautiful daughters: RubAnnette (Vernard) Jenkins, Christal Gail (Christopher) Smaw, Clarissa (David) Savage., and Rhiana Gay, and nine grandchildren

Gerald L. Nelson Jr., the son of Bro. Gerald Nelson Sr. and Reverend T. Patricia Nelson, the Pastor of Mt. Tabor A.M.E. Church, Ocala, Florida, Eleventh Episcopal District

Brother Cleophis Bates the uncle of Reverend Dr. Dennis W. Broughton, Jr., pastor of Brown Chapel (Columbia) African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Newberry District, Columbia Annual Conference and the brother of Sister Wilhelmenia B. Broughton, former 7th Episcopal District WMS Treasurer of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church

The Reverend Mose Jefferson Wilson, retired AME Church pastor and Itinerant Elder who successfully served several congregations in the Central South Carolina Annual Conference, husband of Mrs. Hester Nesmith Wilson of Nesmith, SC; and father of the Reverend Fedrick A. (Tenessa) Wilson, Pastor of Live Oak (Vance) African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Midlands District, Central Annual Conference of the AME Church

Bishop Henry Allen Belin, Jr., the 104th Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, father of Rev. Dr. Henry A. Belin III, Pastor of First AME Church - Bethel, Harlem NY; Rev. Dr. Toni Belin Ingram, Presiding Elder of the Augusta North District; Rev. Dr. Roderick D. Belin, President/Publisher of the AMEC Publishing House

 

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On behalf of Social Action Commission Chair, Bishop 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