March 2026 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."
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Ms. Frances Perry, the mother of Evangelist Leah Dupree Love, Esq. and the mother-in-law of the Reverend Dr. Harold M. Love, Jr. (Tennessee State Representative), pastor of Lee Chapel AME Church, Nashville, TN, Tennessee Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District |
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Mrs. Norma Jean Philips, pastor's widow and a former WMS Committee Chair of the Connectional Women’s Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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Mr. Marcus Aurelius Lemon, the beloved bonus son of Mrs. Laurastine Lemon King, the President of the 11th Episcopal District Women’s Missionary Society |
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Mrs. Laverne Wilson Woodard, mother of our beloved Reverend Patrea Wilson, pastor of New Bethel AME Church in Lacoochee, Florida, and loving mother of Monica, Lucious, and Jewel (Ward Chapel AME Church, Winter Park, FL) |
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Brother Lonnie S. Chandler, a life-long member of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee, the uncle/father-figure of the Rev. Dr. Lisa Hammonds, Comptroller of The Christian Recorder and the pastor of SJN, the Mother Church of African Methodism in Tennessee, Thirteenth Episcopal District |
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Mr. Grover James Jackson, Jr., father of Rev. LaDonna J. Amos, Pastor of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, Holt, Alabama, Ninth Episcopal District |
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Dr. John L. Henderson, the 17th President of Wilberforce University, who served from 1988 to 2002 |
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The Reverend William Foster Wingo, (Retired) husband of Reverend Juanita Wingo, he pastored at Mount Zoar AME Church, in Conowingo, MD and Bethel AME Church, Centreville, MD, and was also the Founder and Publisher of the Power Magazine |
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Mrs. Mary Holley Smith, Life Member of the Women’s Missionary Society (WMS), Allen Temple AME Church, Cincinnati, and former President of the Ohio Conference WMS, the widow of the Late Rev. Parnell Smith who pastored Cyrene, Piqua; Christ our Redeemer, West End; and Rodgers Chapel, Washington Court House in the Ohio South Ohio Conference, Third Episcopal District; and the loving mother of Mrs. Deborah M. Nesbit, Hamilton, OH and sister-in-law to Rev. Betty Whitted Holley, Ph.D., Interim President & Academic Dean at Payne Theological Seminary |
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The Clergy Family Information Center extends 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
