NECROLOGY

Listings NOVEMBER 2022

*Purple font connotes Episcopal Family; Red font, General Of ficers; and Blue font, Connectional Officers.

-Doris Jean Seats Barlow, Ed.D., the last sibling of AME Church Connectional officer Ora L. Seats Easley, international administrator of the Clergy Family Information Center and the sister-in-love of the Reverend Dr. William Easley, Jr., presiding elder, retired

-Deacon John E. Fleming, the brother of the Reverend Larry Lewis, pastor of Grace African Methodist Episcopal Church, Crosswicks, New Jersey of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District

-Sis. Mattie Lloyd, the sister of Bishop Richard F. Norris, and aunt of the Reverend Dr. Marcellus A. Norris (executive director of the Department of Church Growth & Development) & the Reverend Richard F. Norris II (pastor of Bethel-Hosanna AMEC-Pennsauken, NJ)

-Mr. Arlue Moore, father of the Reverend Dr. Byron Moore, pastor and the fatherin-law of the Reverend Sharon Moore, executive pastor of St. Andrew AME Church, Memphis, Tennessee, Thirteenth Episcopal District

-Superannuated Minister and Presiding Elder Hutchison Tuku, age 90 years, husband, an itinerant elder for 50 years in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; father of seven children, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Fifteenth Episcopal District

-Mr. Charles Rose, beloved widower of the late Bernella Knight Rose, former president of the Ninth Episcopal District AME Church Lay Organization, and beloved father of Ms. Alisia Rose and Mr. Byron Rose

-Sister Twynette Beaman, the beloved mother of the Right Reverend Silvester S. Beaman, the 139th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, presiding prelate of the Fifteenth Episcopal District, and mother-in-love of Episcopal Supervisor Renee Palmore Beaman

-Brother Obediah Brown, the father of the Reverend Latisha Jones (father-in- law of Brother Delroy Jones), pastor of Gregg-Anne AME Church, Bradley, Florida, Eleventh Episcopal District

-Maestro Minister Mario Stiggers, the nephew of retired Presiding Elder Johnny Ray and the Reverend De Lois Mitchell of the Greater Fort Worth District, Tenth Episcopal District

-Brother Samuel Emanuel, Sr., the brother of retired Presiding Elder Lawrence Emanuel of the Southwest Texas Conference, the Reverend Ray Emanuel of the North Texas Conference, and the Reverend Benjamin Emanuel of the Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

-Mrs. Leola Page, the mother of Lady Gloria Emanuel and mother-in-law of retired Presiding Elder Lawrence Emanuel of the Southwest Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District

-Earl "Dean" Banks of Camden, Arkansas, the oldest brother to the Reverend Andrew Banks (Ashdown Circuit, West Arkansas Conference), the Reverend Lessly Banks (Whitis Chapel, Camden & Union, Chidester), the Reverend Larry Banks (Bethel, West Memphis), and Michael Banks; the Banks family membership is at St. James AME Church, Stephens, Arkansas

-Ms. Jennifer Y. Blake-Pringle, of the Seventh Episcopal District, beloved mother of Hermina G. McGirt, and loving daughter of Mrs. Robertann Grant Blake of Pawleys Island, SC, and sister of Ms. Sylvia C. Blake, Connectional WMS member at large, and Chaynel BlakeNichols, 3rd vice president of the Ethyel Anderson Area WMS, Western NC Conference, Second Episcopal District

-Mrs. Terrye Marie Lacy, the sister of Pastor Brenda Johnson of Shiloh AME Church (South Houston District), and Sister Deborah Kimbrel of Anderson Chapel AME Church (Paul Quinn District) of the Tenth Episcopal District

-The Reverend Charles Edward Glover, Sr., an itinerant elder in the Second

Episcopal District and active member of St. John AME Church – Huntsville, Alabama in the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference and the husband of the Reverend Vanessa Glover, also of the Northwest Alabama Annual Conference, Ninth Episcopal District

-The Reverend Dr. Almyra Oveta Fuller, prominent virologist, and an AME itinerant elder, Fourth Episcopal District

-Mr. James Wesley Dennis II, the father of the Reverend James Wesley Dennis III, an itinerant elder and pastor of Pine Grove (Columbia) AME Church in the Newberry District of the Columbia South Carolina Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

-Mrs. Lelia M. Henderson, the beloved mother of general officer, Mr. Marcus T. Henderson, Sr., treasurer/chief financial officer, African Methodist Episcopal Church

-The Reverend Malose Frans Manganye, the spouse of Presiding Elder Fredolene Juanita Manganye and a chaplain in the South African Defence Force, just appointed pastor of Mareka Memorial, Dobsonville in the West Annual Conference, Nineteenth Episcopal District

-Brother Goitseone Joseph Dithipe, the son of the Reverend Dr. Ntshadi DithipeMoeti, dean of the Board of Examiners of the West Conference; he served as the Polokwane District ACEL president in the Mangena Maake Mokone Conference, Nineteenth, and was a member of the John E. Hunter AME Church in Seshego

-The Reverend Eva Joyce Martin, retired itinerant elder in the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the First Episcopal District, was the wife of the Reverend Clarence Martin, Sr., retired itinerant elder also in the Philadelphia Annual Conference, and the mother of Bryant and Kevin Martin, and the mother-in-law of the Reverend Tiffany Lett Martin, pastor of Bethel AME Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania

Condolences to the bereaved are expressed on behalf of Publications Commission chair Bishop David R. Daniels, Jr., president/publisher of the AMEC Publishing House (Sunday School Union) the Rev. Roderick D. Belin, and editor of The Christian Recorder, Dr. John Thomas III.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 (NRSV)

To share or receive information about Connectional clergy family bereavements and congratulations, please contact the AME Church Clergy Family Information Center. Mrs. Ora L. Easley, administrator • 5981 Hitching Post Lane • Nashville, TN 37211 • 615.833.6936 (CFIC

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