October 2025 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 -

 

Mr. Charles Arthur Ingram, the father of Dr. Daryl B. Ingram, Retired General Officer of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

The Reverend Dr. Gwendolyn Allen, (Retired) pastor of the Philadelphia Annual Conference, Harrisburg District of The First Episcopal District

Bro. Ronald Lee Jones, husband of Rev. Caroline L. Jones, Pastor of Galilee AME Church, Washington, DC, Washington Conference, Second Episcopal District; Bro. Jones was the Interdenominational Church Ushers Association (ICUA) Union President

Mr. Thomas Earl Jones, the younger brother of the Reverend Sherry Miller, pastor of Barnes Temple AME Church in Elsmere, Kentucky, Thirteenth Episcopal District

Courtney Yvonne Deal, the daughter of Rev. Tamika Baker, Associate Minister at Wesley Chapel AME Church, Houston, TX in the North Houston District of the Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

Mr. Harry T. Williams of Fort Worth, TX, the brother of Rev. Portia Williams Duncan, the pastor of St. Peter Memorial AME Church, Arlington, TX in the Greater Fort Worth District of the Northwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

The Reverend Dr. Carrington Carter, pastor of Brown Memorial AME Church in Washington, DC, Washington Annual Conference, Second Episcopal District

Mrs. Watta Doris Okai Menjor, the sister of Supervisor Irene M. Daniels and sister in-law of Bishop David R. Daniels 

The Reverend Leonard B. Jackson, served as Minister of Community Outreach & Social Justice at First AME Church, Los Angeles for over 20 years before moving to First AME Church, Las Vegas, where he served for 15 years, both in the Fifth Episcopal District

Bro. Edward Sechele Dipholo, born 5 October 1949 October, the father to the Rev. Chief Simon Dipholo of the Nineteenth Episcopal District

The Reverend Phillip Randle, the former pastor of Bethel AME Church, Abilene in the Greater Fort Worth District of the Northwest Texas Conference of the Tenth Episcopal District

Mrs. Ruby D. White, the mother of Rev. Johnny White, the Pastor of Bethel AME, Hearne, Texas in the Paul Quinn District of the Northwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District and mother-in-love of Rev. Paulette White

Bro. Jesse S. Morris III, brother of Presiding Elder Jennifer Tinsley of the Indiana Conference of the Fourth Episcopal District

Sister Beryl Joanna Bobb (23 March 1926 - 20 October 2025), the mother of the Rev. Dr. Elton Bobb, Presiding Elder of the Trinidad and Tobago/Grenada District of the Sixteenth Episcopal District

Sister Patricia Christman Clayton Bailey, served as Executive Administrator for the Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk Office, the wife of the Reverend Cedric J Bailey, Sr. Pastor, of First AME Church, Pegram, TN, and St. Luke AME Church, Erin, TN, Thirteenth Episcopal District

Sis. Evangelene Barton Brown Davis, widow of Retired Presiding Elder Samuel M. Davis of the Tennessee Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District

 

 

In Sympathy and Prayer,

Ora L. Easley, International Administrator