Obituaries

Bernice Jeannette Phillips

Bernice Jeannette Phillips

Mar 28, 2022

Bernice Jeanette Phillips, age 99 entered to eternal rest on March 28th 2022 at the Somerset Woods Rehab/Nursing Home in Somerset NJ following a short stay. Bernice J. Phillips was born on October 9th 1922 in Hixon TN, outside of Chattanooga TN. To the parents of Esther Hale and Eugene Phillips. Bernice grew up in TN where she attended...

John Aaron Fowler

John Aaron Fowler

Mar 8, 2022

John Aaron Fowler, affectionately known as ‘Johnny’ to his family, is the eldest of four siblings. He was born September 16th, 1946, in Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, NJ to the late John Edgar Fowler and Theodora B. Gandy-Fowler. After fulfillment of God's promise, John transitioned from this earth on March 8th, 2022, at the age of 75. John was...

Barbara Alice Cox

Barbara Alice Cox

Mar 6, 2022

Barbara Alice Cox, 87 of Rahway, New Jersey passed away peacefully in her home on March 6, 2022 surrounded by family. She was born Alice Barbara Hester on June 30, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey to the late parents of Lacy Hester and Alice Elizabeth McIntyre-Crowell.

Barbara worked for Prudential Bache Securities as a margin...

Debra Patricia Spicer

Debra Patricia Spicer

Feb 24, 2022

Debra P. Taylor Spicer was born on March 17th, 1961, to the late Nellie and Hayward Taylor Sr. in Brooklyn, NY. She was the older of their two children and educated in the New York City Public School System. After graduating from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, NY in 1979, where she was an avid cheerleader, she went on...

Sawbeth Dean Spence

Sawbeth Dean Spence

Feb 23, 2022

Sawbeth Dean Spence Date of Death: Feb 23, 2022 "Sawbeth Dean Spence, known to some as Bling or Patrick, was born on December 15, 1960, in Granville St. James, Jamaica to parents, Carmen Lewis and Lloyd Spence. He migrated to Canada in 1989 and then to New Jersey later that same year. As an entrepreneur he had many successful...

Inez H Slaughter

Inez H Slaughter

Feb 19, 2022

Deaconess Inez Slaughter, 93, of Columbus, Georgia, was born to the late Ernest and Eula Baldwin on May 3, 1928, who sadly departed this life on Saturday, February 19, 2022, in Woodbridge, New Jersey. She attended the Colquitt County school system in Georgia. After completing her education, Inez met and married James Kinchen and from this union, one child...

Mary Kate Merritt

Mary Kate Merritt

Feb 5, 2022

Deaconess Mary Merritt (nee Toon) was born January 25, 1929, in Cumberland County, North Carolina to the late Thomas Jefferson Toon and Alice Elizabeth Ross. Her siblings– Naomi, Louella, Jerry, Arleatha, Taft, John, David, Florida and Margaret preceded her in death. Mary demonstrated an early talent as a singer and became a frequent soloist in church from the time...

Girvis Wilbur Moody Jr.

Girvis Wilbur Moody Jr.

Feb 2, 2022

Girvis W. Moody Jr. was born on December 26,1950 in Newark, New Jersey to parents Girvis W. Moody Sr. and Dorothy L. Moody (nee Jennings). He was the youngest of three children and much adored by his two older sisters. He was affectionately nicknamed “Skipper” and later called Skip by his friends and colleagues. Skip attended the Newark public...