September 2023 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 -

The Reverend Dr. Philip A. Blair, the beloved Conference Statistical Secretary, Former Conference Christian Education Director, and the Pastor of the Mt. Olive AME Church, Wilmington, NC, North Carolina Annual Conference, Second Episcopal District

The Reverend Clinton Stancil, the Pastor of Wayman AME Church in St. Louis, MO, St. Louis–Columbia District, Fifth Episcopal District

Miss Shatquantell (Peaches) Denise Steffin, the daughter of Reverend Angellette Warfield, pastor of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Ashland, Tennessee, and Juergen Steffin Sr; of the North District, Tennessee Annual Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District  

The Reverend Charles Marie Davis, (retired) a faithful member who served as the office administrator, and was on the ministerial staff at Saint John AME Church, downtown Birmingham, in the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District

Mr. Ronald T. Cash, the son of Rev. Gloria Cash-Sam, pastor of Wesley Chapel AMEC, Clute TX in the South Houston District, Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

The Reverend Hezekiah D. Stewart, Jr., a loving husband, father, grandfather, dedicated pastor, and revered community leader, in the Twelfth Episcopal District

Mrs. Lillie Mae Cooper, the mother of the Rev. Gerald A. Cooper, Esq. Pastor of Wayman A.M.E. Church, Dayton, Ohio, and member of the General Board, (the Rev. Dr. Mila P. Cooper, spouse, and President of the Third Episcopal District Women in Ministry) and the Rev. Kevin J. Cooper, Sr., Pastor of United A.M.E. Church, in Xenia, Ohio, and other siblings are Jonathan Cooper and Priscilla Cooper-Price

Sister Marilyn Morris, the mother of Rev. Dr. Marlene Mitchell, Pastor of Falls Road, AME Church, and Dean of the Washington Conference Board of Examiners, Second Episcopal District

Dr. Cora A. “Toney” Coulter Bolden, an AME Church Chaplain, the sister of Rev. Dr. Marla Coulter-McDonald, Itinerant Elder of the AME Church serving in the Indiana Conference of the 4th Episcopal Church

Mr. Howard M. Jenkins, Sr., the father of Reverend Howard M. Jenkins, Jr., the pastor of Bethel AME Church, Providence, Rhode Island of the New England Conference of the First Episcopal District of the AME Church

Sister Sylvia McCray, the sister of the Rev. Dr. Lionel Jackson, pastor of Gaines Chapel AME Church in Natchitoches, LA, age 90, member of St. James AME Church in Hammond, LA, Life member of the WMS, president of the local Lay organization, among many other church and community positions, and a retired educator

The Reverend Linda Marie Willis, a superannuated minister in the East Arkansas Annual Conference, was the daughter of the Reverends Carroll D. and Emma Willis, 12th Episcopal District

Attorney Stanley Myers, age 46, the youngest son of Mrs. Louise Myers, Bishop Harry L. Seawright's (Episcopal Supervisor), Ninth Episcopal District, Sister

The Reverend Hezekiah D. Stewart, Jr., a loving husband, father, grandfather, dedicated pastor, and revered community leader, 12th Episcopal District

Mrs. Martha Jewel Gainer Sykes, the widow of deceased Rev. Louis Henry Sykes, former pastor of Wayman Chapel AME Church, Columbia, TN, Tennessee Annual Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District 

Mrs. Bettie P. White, the mother of Mr. Nicholas White, Director of Accounting for the African Methodist Episcopal Church Finance Department

Mr. Leroy Alexander Bluing, Jr., the last sibling, the brother, of Mrs. Karen Bluing-Osborne, Executive Assistant to Dr. Richard Allen Lewis, Retired, CFO and Treasurer of the AME Church

Sister Marilyn Morris, the mother of Rev. Dr. Marlene Mitchell, Pastor of Falls Road, AME Church, and Dean of the Washington Conference Board of Examiners, Second Episcopal District

Brother Wilbert Lucas, brother of Rev. Larry Lucas, pastor of Turner Chapel AME Church-Roseland, LA, Eighth Episcopal District

 

For inquires concerning the Necrology Listing email: OEasleyL@amecfic.net

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

 

In Sympathy and Prayer,

Ora L. Easley, International Administrator