Our CHChurch NA Memorial Page
These are gone, but will not be forgotten.
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"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
Rev Michael Anthony
Rev Michael Jerome Anthony passed away October 06, 2007.
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Bishop James Martin
Rev. Jonathan Foster, The Rev. Hollis Martin and The Rev. James Martin, Jr. officiating. Burial followed at Chosea Springs Cemetery.
The family received friends from 5-8 this evening at the funeral home. The Rev. Martin died Monday, April 28, 2008, at Gadsden Regional Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Sara Martin; one daughter, Debra Foster (Ken), of Griffin, Ga; one son, James H. Martin Jr. (Dee), of Jacksonville; five grandchildren, Jonathan Foster, Andrew Foster (Erika), Judson Martin, Ashley Martin and Roseanna Martin; his mother, Lillian Martin Williams, of Piedmont; two sisters, Janice Gambrell (Dallas) and Linda Ingram (Art), all of Piedmont; three brothers, Hollis Martin (Janice), Johnny Martin and Joey Martin (Sandy), all of Piedmont; sister-in-law, Charlene Creel (Charles), of Jacksonville; and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Andrew Foster, Johnny Martin, Joey Martin, Eddie Martin, Jerry Anderson and Art Ingram.
The Rev. Martin was a Jacksonville native and had been a Piedmont resident for several years. He served as Bishop of the Congregational Holiness Church for eight years, pastored several churches in Alabama and Georgia and was currently serving as pastor at Community Congregational Holiness Church. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Antietam. He was preceded in death by his father, The Rev. Joe Martin.
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Steve Robinson
Vance Hardegree's best friend who left this life suddenly January 18, 1996
"A part of me died that awful day"
"I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore"
Page 394 in the Church Hymnal
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Miss Deanna Leigh York, age 18 of Williamson, passed away on Monday, July 14, 2008 at Spalding Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Deanna was born in Spalding County on September 20, 1989. She was a member of the North Griffin Congregational Holiness Church, a 2008 graduate of Pike County High School, was employed at Piggly Wiggly in Griffin. Survivors include, father and mother, Richard and Anna York of Williamson; brother, Wesley York of Williamson; grandparents, Donald and Frankie York of Williamson, Silas and Marie Stephens of Griffin; great-grandmother, Lois Hearn; aunts and uncles, Linda and Lewis Robinson of Zebulon, David and Laura York of Griffin, Mark and Sharon Stephens of Williamson, Beth Stephens, Michael and Nicole Stephens of Zebulon, several cousins.
Funeral services were conducted 11:00 am on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at Harvest Temple Church of God. Reverend Gene Luke officiated. Interment followed in the Westwood Gardens.
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Funeral services were held at the Gainesville CH Church
Thursday July 17th @ 2pm for Sister Blanche McIntyre, age 96,
who is the grandmother of Rev Vance Hardegree the North Alabama District Secretary
and Attorney Craig Hardegree who serves as General Counsel for the Congregational Holiness Church Inc.
Sister McIntyre is the oldest living member of the Gainesville CH Church. She has been a member there for over seventy years.
She was the prayer leader for a Tuesday morning (ladies only) prayer service that had meet at the church for over seventy years.
She passed away after a brief illness which she contracted from the nursing home of which she was a resident.
Rev. Vance Hardegree and Rev. Jeff Burrell officiated. Vance sung his "Granny Mac's" favorite song
"Visions of Heaven".