AC2012 - Thursday, May 31
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The 2012 North Alabama Annual Conference began on the evening of May 31 with the Memorial Service held at Trinity UMC in Homewood.
During the annual Memorial Service the Conference pauses to remember those clergy and clergy spouses who have died in the last year. Dr. Charles Gattis was the preacher. In the sermon he used various Psalms to illustrate the hard times and high times of ministry. He noted all those being remembered kept going on their journey when that faced the hard times and when they faced the exciting moments.
Those clergy and clergy spouses remembered included the following
Rev. James Augusta Anthony
Rev. James Neil Baccus
Mrs. Mary Catherine Isom Brown
Mrs. Vivian H. Butt
Rev. George Barnett Creel
Rev. Dr. William Crawford Davis
Mrs. Scherry Charline Nesmith Earl
Rev. Arthur Gordon Finch, Jr.
Rev. Thomas Buel Gladney, Sr.
Rev. Sam Elbert Graham
Mrs. Bonita Gray Gresham
Mrs. Winnie Dell Love Havens
Mrs. Colene Fleming Higginbotham
Rev. William Wayne Hitt
Rev. Carl M. Howard
Mrs. Sara Harper Howell
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Richards Maxwell
Rev. Brady Emerson McCullough, Sr.
Rev. Dr. R. Gordon McKinney
Mrs. Wanda Kay Gosa Parker
Mrs. Ramona Ellen Pilkington
Mrs. Christeen Clifton Pope
Rev. Russell Lee Proctor
Rev. Arthur Eugene Rowe
Mrs. Mary Lou Trimm Smith Segars
Rev. Jerry E. Sims
Mr. Joel Smith
Mrs. Willie B. Smith
Mrs. Martha Ann Stafford
Rev. Dr. Coil Edward Stricklin
Rev. Walter Bradley Tidwell
Rev. Travis Alonzo Warlick
Rev. Rowe Sims Wren
Rev. Gene Wright
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